Local property dealers have reported a growth in demand in Tayside.
Property experts say the area is enjoying a boom as many properties are now going to a closing date.
House prices in the area are 1.1% above last year’s prices and estate agents are hoping that figure will continue to rise.
Tayside Solicitors Property Centre manager Lynne Hill said: “These are encouraging sales figures for the first half of year. Average house prices are up across the board.
“Many properties are going under offer very quickly and we are witnessing a return of the days when many homes are going to a closing date.
“The price of the average villa comes in at nearly £250,000 this summer, up 5.4%.
“And over the first six months we have seen strong demand for flats, with sales of 495 in volume a leap of 16.4% on the first half of 2014 – with the average selling price coming in at £94,571. That represents a rise of 2.5%.”
Tim Allan, chief executive of the Unicorn Property Group, agreed that the property sector had improved, but cautioned that more needed to be done to maintain demand.
He said: “We have had no stock to sell since the middle of last year and we are going to get going on building some new stuff.”
The number of properties sold through TSPC legal firms is up 2% year on year, with the average price coming in at £143,342 up 1.1% . The first half of the year total sales figure at the Whitehall Crescent Centre came in at £195,661,918 a rise of 3.2% compared with the same staging post in 2014.