Prices indeed, there's new 2 bedroom flats overlooking the river in the city centre of Inverness and their looking for offers over £300,000
Would commuting be by car or train or dependent on location? For driving into Inverness, Strathspey has advantages as the A9 from the South isn't as busy as the A96 from the East.
Obviously with lots of development going on out the Culloden end of Inverness it's possible to get a place that's right on the Eastern edge, still a fair distance to Elgin but your not trying to cross Inverness at least. Also once you know the roads by heading out over Culloden Moor and through Cawdor it's possible to bypass Nairn and and join the A96 after Auldearn making for a more pleasent commute if driving Inverness - Elgin.
While Inverness isn't a very big place it's still possible to be up to 8miles from the city centre in some of the furtherest flung developments, but there's also quite a few central developments ongoing that aren't in the mega bucks price range of those river flats!
Milton of Leys is the other hotbed of development in Inverness, good location for an escape to the mountains, and for A96 avoidence, but adding to the total journey time to Elgin.
One thing to note coming from Glasgow - Inverness must be the only city the kebab shops shut before the pubs!! There's no differentation between pubs and clubs in terms of licencing times, so some of the pubs are open till 3am.