Private Sector Rent Statistics: 2010 - 2015

This publication presents statistics on private sector rent levels in Scotland over the years 2010 to 2015 (years to end-September) using data from the Rent Service Scotland market evidence database. It presents information on rent levels for different property sizes across each of the 18 broad rental market areas in Scotland. It contains information on average rents as well as rents at the higher and lower end of the market.


Footnotes

1. A definition and map of Broad Rental Market Areas is included in this publication in the Section on Broad Rental Market Area Profiles

2. Information is provided on means, medians, lower quartiles and upper quartiles. These statistical terms are defined in Annex B – Glossary of Terms

3. ONS CPI Reference Table 6, published on 13 October 2015 http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/cpi/consumer-price-indices/september-2015/rft-table-1.xls

4. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Built-Environment/Housing/privaterent/tenants/Local-Housing-Allowance/figures

5. ONS CPI Reference Table 6, published on 13 October 2015 http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/cpi/consumer-price-indices/september-2015/rft-table-1.xls

6. A Broad Rental Market Area for Local Housing Allowance purposes is defined as an area in which a person could reasonably be expected to live having regard to facilities and services for the purposes of health, education, recreation, personal banking and shopping, taking account of the distance of travel, by public and private transport, to and from those facilities and services

7. Means, medians, and lower and upper quartiles are defined in Annex B – Glossary of Terms

8. http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2015/08/3720/3

9. http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2015/09/5480

10. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Built-Environment/Housing/privaterent/tenants/Local-Housing-Allowance/figures

11. http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/hpi/index-of-private-housing-rental-prices/index.html

12. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Built-Environment/Housing/privaterent/tenants/Local-Housing-Allowance/figures

13. https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/private-rental-market-statistics-may-2015

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