A home for a prime minister? asks Edinburgh estate agents Brodies of 8 Carlton Terrace, a superb Georgian townhouse in the centre of Edinburgh that is for sale at a reasonable sounding £460,000plus. The three-storey house, which is set in an elegant terrace close to the new Scottish parliament, dates from the 1820s and has a Grade A listing. It is in superb decorative order and has a number of fine reception rooms with views over a park. A similar house in, say Merrion Square or Fitzwilliam Square, would now make close to £2 million. Like everyone else, the estate agents are pitching their marketing effort at Dublin where there seems to unlimited funds for overseas investments.