The price of property in Scotland is continuing to rise, with buyers now paying an average of £150,472.

The latest UK House Price Index shows prices increased 4.8% in June compared with the same month last year, and were up 0.8% on May.

The biggest rises were in West Lothian, Midlothian and Edinburgh , where buyers paid an average of £255,361.

Prices experienced the biggest drop in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire, where they fell by 2.8% to £159,507 and 3.7% to £189,200 respectively.

Across the UK buyers paid an average of £228,384 - an increase of 3%.

House buyers in Scotland are paying an average of over £150,000

Residential sales in Scotland were meanwhile down 9.4% in April to 7,371.

Kenny Crawford, of Registers of Scotland, said: "Average prices have been increasing each month since March 2016, when compared with the same month of the previous year.

"Residential sales volumes decreased in April, the start of the new financial year.

"The annual decrease of 9.4% when compared with April 2017 in Scotland is in the context of larger decreases across the rest of the UK."

The volume of sales increased in four of Scotland's 32 local authorities, with East Lothian and Perth & Kinross recording the biggest rises.

Argyll and Bute, Stirling and Inverclyde meanwhile saw the largest fall in sales, according to the index.