Local Authority breakdowns, March 2025

Chart 2 presents data by local authority and the type of vacant stock for 2025. It shows that Aberdeen City has the highest amount of stock vacant (2,336 units; 24% of Scotland’s total vacant stock). The majority (76%) of vacant stock in Aberdeen City was normal use stock.

Chart 2: Vacant local authority stock by normal use of stock, 2025

Table 2 and 3 illustrates how the annual change as well as vacancy rates vary by local authority. The total vacancy rate in 2025 was highest in Aberdeen City (9.9%) and lowest in Perth and Kinross (0%) as they reported no vacant stock followed by Moray (1.1%). As chart 2 shows, most vacant stock in Renfrewshire (56%) and North Lanarkshire (51%) is earmarked for demolition (56%).

The highest vacancy rate for normal use stock was in Aberdeen City (7.9%) The rate in Aberdeen City has increased since 2020 (2.0%). Over this period, when looking at length of vacancy, Aberdeen City has seen an increase in properties vacant for 26 weeks to two years (6.2% in 2020 to 45.4% in 2025). The lowest vacancy rate for normal use stock was in North Ayrshire (0.4). Perth and Kinross reported no vacant stock.

Numerically, Edinburgh saw the largest annual decrease in total vacant stock (-601 units; -47.2%) and Highland saw then largest annual increase in vacant stock (102 units; 37.5%).

Numerically, Dundee (-239 units; -80.0%) and Aberdeen City (-236,-12%) saw the largest annual decreases in total normal use vacant stock.  East Dunbartonshire (+74 units, +125.0%) and East Lothian (+60 units, +81.0%) saw the largest annual increases.

Table 2: Total vacant local authority units, annual change, and total vacancy rate, by local authority, Scotland, 2025

Table 3: Normally available letting vacant stock, annual change, and total vacancy rate, by local authority, Scotland, 2025