Homes in East Renfrewshire are taking considerably longer to sell as the coronavirus pandemic hits the area's housing market, according to a new report.
Figures released by estate agent comparison site GetAgent.co.uk show it now takes an average of 89 days for a property in the Barrhead area to sell, from the point of listing to completion.
That is 35 days longer than the figure of 54 recorded last year.
Only six other council areas in Scotland – Stirling, Aberdeenshire, Borders, Highland, Moray and Midlothian – have experienced longer delays to the average transaction.
Colby Short, founder of GetAgent.co.uk, said: “Given the turbulent year we’ve experienced, the time to sell a home was always likely to increase on last year.
"Lockdown restrictions stopped the market in its tracks during the spring, which would have delayed pretty much every sale already in the pipeline.
"We’ve also seen many cogs of the selling process hit by furlough and redundancies which have reduced their operational capacity and hindered their ability to process transactions at the same speed."
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