Highland Council private landlord registered rental properties: FOI release

Information requested

1. The number of private rental properties registered within the Highland Council area as of January 1st 2025.
2. The number of private rental properties registered within the Highland Council area as of January 1st for each of the past 5 years (2021-2025).
3. The number of private rental properties registered in Inverness, within the Highland Council area as of January 1st 2025.
4. The number of private rental properties registered in Inverness, within the Highland Council area as of January 1st for each of the past 5 years (2021-2025).
5. The number of private rental properties registered in Aviemore, within the Highland Council area as of January 1st 2025.
6. The number of private rental properties registered in Aviemore, within the Highland Council area as of January 1st for each of the past 5 years (2021-2025).
7. The number of private rental properties registered in Nairn, within the Highland Council area as of January 1st 2025.
8. The number of private rental properties registered in Nairn, within the Highland Council area as of January 1st for each of the past 5 years (2021-2025).
9. The number of private rental properties registered in Dingwall, within the Highland Council area as of January 1st 2025.
10. The number of private rental properties registered in Dingwall, within the Highland Council area as of January 1st for each of the past 5 years (2021-2025).

Response

I enclose a copy of the information you requested for parts 1 and 2. There are two tables containing the information held by the Scottish Government in relation to your query.

The Landlord Registration system is an administrative system used primarily to manage the registration of landlords and rental properties, and has not been designed to produce robust statistical figures on the sector. Therefore it is not possible to extract an accurate time series of data from its database, or extract data for specific dates. The enclosed tables show snapshots of the data which are taken every month, for 31 December, 2020 to 2024 and 31 January, 2021 to 2025.

The Scottish Government does not have the information you have asked for in relation to points 3 to 10 because we are not the data controllers for the Scottish Landlord Register.

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FOI 202500468523 - Information Released - Annex

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