The time needed to sell homes in Glasgow and Edinburgh is half the average for UK cities, according to a survey.
Zoopla's UK Cities House Price index for September reveals housing market conditions are strongest north of the border despite Aberdeen being the worst performer.
Glasgow and Edinburgh properties sell within six weeks on average, compared with 12 weeks across the whole of the UK. But in Aberdeen, homes took more than 15 weeks to sell and sellers discounted their homes by 9.4%.
Richard Donnell, research and insight director at Zoopla, said: "There is a continued polarisation in housing market conditions across the country set by underlying market fundamentals, albeit Brexit uncertainty has been a compounding factor for lower market activity in some areas.
"A general election seems to be a growing possibility ahead of any Brexit resolution; however, once the political outlook becomes clearer, we would expect a modest bounce-back in demand for a six-12-month period.
"Market conditions are set to remain weak in southern cities until pricing levels adjust to what buyers are willing, or can afford, to pay. London is three years into a repricing process, and we expect sales volumes to slowly improve over 2020, while house price growth remains subdued.
"There are large parts of the country where housing affordability remains attractive, fuelled by continued economic growth that supports demand for homes, resulting in reasonable sales periods and only modest gaps between sales and asking prices."
Glasgow and Edinburgh are also the only UK cities not to register a discount from asking to selling price. Homes in the two locations instead command an average premium of 6-7% above the asking price. In contrast, vendors across the UK now accept offers that are on average of 3.8% or £9,800 lower than the initial asking price.
