Article: [pounds sterling]4M house clearance; (1) WAS: [pounds sterling]245,000 SOLD FOR: [pounds sterling]150,000 PLUSH: A penthouse in Derwent House, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire (2) WAS: [pounds sterling]60,000 SOLD FOR: [pounds sterling]49,995 CITY PAD: A traditional flat in Glasgows Shettleston Road (3) WAS: [pounds sterling]400,000 SOLD FOR: [pounds sterling]370,000 SOLID BUY: A stone home in Langside Drive, Glasgow.

Byline: Jody Harrison

THEY had waited in line since long before dawn, each shivering soul desperate to get their hands on a bargain.

But the people who had gathered on a Glasgow street on a cold and windy winter night were not after a sofa or some knockdown kitchen ware - they were out to buy houses worth [pounds sterling]16.4 million in Scotland's first ever property clearance sale.

By the end of the day, millions of pounds had changed hands and dozens of people had bought homes at prices which would have been unthinkable just a year ago.

With the credit crunch biting hard, developers decided to put more than 100 homes throughout Scotland on the market at ...

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