IT is enough to make Begbie blow a gasket. Not that it would take much. In the two decades since Trainspotting hit the big screen in 1996, house prices in his old stomping ground of Leith have risen by more than 200 per cent.

And properties in some of the other postcode areas have soared by more than 400 per cent, according to research from Bank of Scotland (BoS).

If you had bought a property in Leith in 1996, it would have set you back around £59,902 on average.

Fast-forward 20 years and the original price might seem just like a deposit. Prices have risen by 205 per cent to an average of £182,440.

The Leith of today is very different to that portrayed in the Irvine Welsh novel and film. Its gentrification has brought an injection of life with hordes of young professionals moving into the area.

It has, as a consequence, lost many of its spit and sawdust pubs, including the Volunteer Arms on Leith Walk – which Begbie knew as “the Volley” – after the hostelry became a trendy gin and whisky bar in 2014.

Could we ever forget the infamous scene where Renton crawls out of the “worst toilet in Scotland”, which smelled better than it looked because it was covered with chocolate? The bookmaker’s shop where the toilet was located was on Pennywell Road in Muirhouse, and has long since disappeared.

There were much more pleasant establishments within this EH14 postcode, and 20 years ago the average price for a property there was £86,281. Since those heady days, prices have shot up by 209 per cent to an average of £266,748.

And neither can we forget that, although Trainspotting is set in Edinburgh, old rivalries re-emerged as much of the movie was actually shot in Glasgow. Indeed almost two thirds of it was filmed at the former Wills tobacco factory on Alexandra Parade, in the East End, which is now a business park complex.

The park in which Sick Boy illustrated his unifying theory of life to Renton was another of the Glasgow locations: Rouken Glen Park in Thornliebank, East Renfrewshire. House prices in the G46 area since 1996 have risen almost as much as Leith, with an impressive 194 per cent increase. Twenty years ago the average price was £78,799, whereas it is now £231,362.

Volcano nightclub on Glasgow’s Benalder Street, where Renton meets Diane, has long since been demolished, but it was such a prominent background to their conversation outside that its memory lives on.

Property prices in this G11 postcode have been coasting along nicely over the last 20 years, seeing a 218 per cent increase. If you bought back in 1996, a property would have cost an average £56,486 – in December it was 179,833.

The flat Renton tries to let in London – on the corner of Talgarth Road and North End Road – is a stone’s throw from West Kensington tube station, the W14 postcode where property prices have gone through the stratosphere, logging a huge 439 per cent rise from £125,271 in December 1996 to £674,840 in December last year.

Another London location, the Royal Eagle Hotel on Craven Road – where Begbie smashes up a room after he realises Renton took the bag containing £16,000 from his arms while he slept and then left – is in a City of Westminster (W2) postcode, and has also seen property prices rocket. In the last 20 years they have risen by 312 per cent from an average of £166,115 to £683,699.

The National:

BoS mortgage director Graham Blair said: “The trailer for Trainspotting 2 subtly highlights how much the world has changed since Trainspotting was released 20 years ago – John Menzies has disappeared from Edinburgh’s Princes Street, trams are now a prominent city centre feature and Renton is married.

“If you had decided to choose a Trainspotting postcode back in 1996, you would have seen a solid boost in value since then.

“London of course has seen the biggest increase, as prices there have shot up in comparison to Scotland, however the 200 per cent-plus increase that most of the Scottish locations saw is more than acceptable.

“Choose a mortgage, a starter home, DIY, clearing gutters – it could be a very good investment indeed.”

Just make sure you choose a Trainspotting postcode.