House prices in Scotland rose 3.6% in 2015, according to new Registers of Scotland (RoS) figures.

With overall sales rising over £16.5 billion, the average price of a residential property rose to £169,402.

Semi-detached houses showed the largest rise in price, up 3.4% to £157,995. In addition, detached properties had the highest average price at £249,921.

However, the lowest volume of properties was semi-detached houses, with flatted properties claiming 36.2% of the total market.

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Overall, 97,701 sales took place across Scotland in 2015.

RoS's director of commercial services, Kenny Crawford, said the residential property market "continues to make a significant contribution" to the Scottish economy.

"In 2015, the market totalled £16.5 billion, an increase of 8.2 per cent on the previous year," he said.

"The City of Edinburgh property market represented over 17.2 per cent of this figure, bringing in over £2.8 billion to the Scottish economy. This is significantly larger than the next biggest property market, Glasgow, with 9.8 per cent of the market at £1.6 billion."

(LM/MH)