New housing supply

Housing stock by tenure is available up to March 2024. However, we have more recent data on new housing supply, up to March 2025. New housing supply comprises the following elements:

• new house building: houses completed by or for housing associations, local authorities, or private developers for market sale, below market rent or low-cost home ownership.
• rehabilitation: houses acquired by housing associations and refurbished either for rent or low-cost home ownership. Refurbishment of private dwellings funded wholly or partly through the Affordable Housing Supply Programme (AHSP); and
• conversion: net new dwellings created by conversion from non-housing to housing use or by alterations to existing dwellings in all tenures. Please note that authorities can report negative numbers, as dwellings can be converted from domestic to non-domestic premises, therefore losing a domestic dwelling.

Chart 3: Total supply of new housing in Scotland, 1996–97 to 2024–25

19,779 new homes were added to the housing stock in 2024–25. This was 628 fewer homes (a 3% decrease) than in 2023–24. Nearly all the new housing supply came from new build homes (97%), a small proportion were from rehabilitations and conversions (3%).

As Chart 3 illustrates, 2024–25 was the lowest total of new housing supply since 2017–18 years, except for 2020–21, when COVID-19 restrictions impacted housebuilding. New housing supply in 2024–25 was 15% lower than in the pre-COVID-19 year of 2019–20 and 28% lower than 2007–08 (before the 2008 financial crisis).

Notes on new housing supply data:

Further detailed figures are available in the Housing Supply Excel web tables.

1. Note that this measure of new housing supply does not consider any dwellings removed from the housing stock through demolitions. Annual figures on demolitions are published in the Conversions and Demolitions Excel web tables. However, these demolitions figures are not comprehensive, and we advise that they should be considered as a minimum level of demolition activity in Scotland. This is due to local authorities differing in their ability to provide information on demolitions across tenures other than for local authority housing stock.