HOMES for sale in Brighton and Hove are snapped up three weeks faster than the UK average.

However even in a place where property can command premium prices - or perhaps because of that - our city's houses keep their "For Sale" signs for twenty days longer than the fastest sellers, which are found in Bristol.

Across the UK, a home will typically sit on the market for 91 days - almost exactly three months - before it is sold, according to the study from Post Office Money Mortgages.

The report found sellers in Bristol and Edinburgh had the least amount of time to wait, with homes spending 51 and 53 days on the market, respectively.

Sellers in Swansea or Liverpool had the longest time periods to wait typically before their house is sold, at 100 and 108 days respectively, almost twice the time it takes in-demand Bristol property to sell.

Brighton and Hove's bricks and mortar lies towards the top of the table, taking just 71 days on average which is 19 days fewer than the national wait time.

The city's average house price continues to creep ever higher, hitting more than £340,000 in the last year.

How long a home takes to sell will have much to do with levels of demand from buyers locally as well as how many homes on the market they have to choose from.

John Willcock, head of mortgages at Post Office Money, said: "House prices continue to rise across the country but eager sellers should remember that this might not be any guarantee of a successful sale."

The research, compiled by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr), found that with the exception of Swansea, where prices have remained steady, property values have increased over the past year across all the cities looked at.

And although everyone knows property in London can command the highest prices, buildings don't sell as fast taking an average 89 days - longer than Brighton and also cities including Nottingham, Manchester, Birmingham, or Cardiff, according to the study.

The time it takes to sell a home in London has increased by around a fifth compared with a year ago. By contrast, the time it takes to sell a property in Edinburgh has fallen by a quarter in the same period.

In large areas of Brighton and Hove, for sale signs outside houses have been banned by the city council as more and more real estate transactions are researched online.