user: Q: The bank's researchers found that a number of coastal towns had seen "substantial" increases since 2005.
Of 59 coastal towns surveyed, 15 recorded price increases of at least 50% in that time.
Fraserburgh in Aberdeenshire experienced the biggest rise with a 109% jump from an average price of £63,540 in 2005 to £132,920 last year.
Lerwick in Shetland, and Peterhead, also in Aberdeenshire, recorded increases of 102%.
Average prices in Lerwick rose from £77,500 to more than £156,000, while Peterhead jumped from £69,000 to £139,000.
Partly due to the substantial rises in the top performing towns, the average house price in Scotland's seaside communities rose by 38% between 2005 and 2014 - exceeding the 31% increase for Britain as a whole.
Nine of the 10 most expensive seaside towns are on the east coast and the 10 least expensive seaside towns are in western Scotland.
Nitesh Patel, housing economist at the Bank of Scotland, said: "Seaside towns are highly popular places to live in Scotland as they offer a unique lifestyle with a typically high quality of life and a healthy environment.
"A number of seaside towns have recorded substantial house price increases over the past decade, predominately on the east coast. The boom in the Scottish oil sector during the period also provided a boost to house prices, particularly in several towns along the Aberdeenshire coastline."

A: House prices in three Scottish seaside towns have doubled in 10 years, according to the Bank of Scotland.


Q: The Frenchman, 35, was due to be out of contract at the end of this season after joining from Bournemouth for an undisclosed fee in January 2016.
Kermorgant has scored eight goals so far this term for the Royals.
"Yann has been very important for us throughout the season, with his experience and the quality that he has," Reading manager Jaap Stam said.

A: Reading striker Yann Kermorgant has extended his deal with the Championship club until the summer of 2018.


Q: The world number 54 progressed against Karlovic with the score at 6-4 1-2 when the big-serving Croatian withdrew.
Bedene, 26, has exited in the first round of the last three tournaments in Brazil, Australia and New Zealand
He will face Dutchman Robin Haase - ranked world number 62 - in the next round on Wednesday at 23:00 GMT.

A: British number two Aljaz Bedene reached the second round of the Abierto Mexicano Telcel in Acapulco after Ivo Karlovic was forced to retire.


Q: The virtual currency reached $3,451.86 (£2,651) per coin in Monday trade, according to the Coindesk Bitcoin Price Index.
It had never crossed the $3,000 mark until the weekend. The market value of all bitcoins in existence has now surpassed $56bn (£43bn).
The surge followed the creation of a spin-off crypto-currency, Bitcoin Cash, last week.
The new asset is trading well below the peak price of $727.54 (£557) per coin it attained on 2 August.
However, Bitcoin Cash's future does appear to be more assured after Coinbase, one of the leading exchange and wallet services, promised to support it after previously refusing to give such a commitment.
"We are planning to have support for Bitcoin Cash by 1 January 2018, assuming no additional risks emerge during that time," it announced on its blog.
The value of the original Bitcoin experienced big swings in July. First there was concern that there might be a "civil war" over rival plans to speed up transactions.
That helped cause its value to dip to $1,938.94 (£1,485) on 16 July before a compromise scheme called Segwit2x gained favour.
Then a fresh plan to fork the currency emerged from a group of insiders unhappy with the Segwit2x initiative.
On 1 August, they offered investors a Bitcoin Cash token to match every original Bitcoin token they owned. The move created an incompatible version of the blockchain ledger, which keeps track of past transactions.
The initiative had the potential to undermine the original Bitcoin, particularly if many miners had jumped ship. Miners provide the computer processing power to authorise transactions, and Bitcoin Cash was designed to appeal to their interests.
However, it currently remains more profitable to mine the original Bitcoin's blockchain than that of Bitcoin Cash, and support for the new crypto-currency remains limited.
"What this has shown is that Bitcoin is much more resilient to forks than some people thought," commented Michael Parsons, a blockchain adviser.
"And it appears that there is room for more than one type of Bitcoin to exist."
Another market watcher suggested that the introduction of Bitcoin Cash had actually contributed to the surge in the original version's value.
"We've seen a lot of people selling their Bitcoin Cash in order to buy more Bitcoin," said Matthew Newton, market analyst at the eToro trading platform.
"On top of this, some investors sat on the sidelines last week, waiting to see what happened, these investors are now moving back into Bitcoin."
The total market capitalisation for all crypto-currencies - including Ethereum and Litecoin -  was close to $118bn on Monday at 14:40 BST, according to CoinMarketCap.

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assistant: Bitcoin's value has jumped to a record high, following a month of turmoil.