Housing Statistics for Scotland Quarterly Update: New Housebuilding and Affordable Housing Supply to end September 2025
This statistical publication presents latest quarterly figures to end September 2025 on new housebuilding and Affordable Housing Supply, along with annual rates of new housebuilding and affordable housing supply per head of population, with comparisons to other UK countries.
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All-sector new housebuilding
Chart 1: All Sector new housebuilding starts and completions, 2004 to 2025 (years to the end September)
Chart 1 shows the annual number of all sector starts and completions from 2004 to 2025 (years to the end of September). Excluding 2020 (where Covid-19 impacted housebuilding), all sector completions were the lowest since the year to the end of September 2017 and starts were the lowest since the year to the end of September 2013.
In total there were 18,347 newbuild homes completed, and 14,846 new build homes started in the year to the end of September 2025. This includes social sector led and private sector led new build completions and starts.
New build house completions and starts decreased between the year to the end of September 2025 and the previous year, as Chart 1 indicates. New housebuilding completions and starts decreased by 8% (-1,498 homes) and 5% (-738 homes) respectively.
Map A shows that in the year to the end of September 2025, the highest new build rates were in Midlothian, East Lothian and City of Edinburgh which had a rate of more than 60 homes completed per 10,000 population.
The lowest rates were observed in Argyll and Bute, Clackmannanshire, Dumfries and Galloway, East Dunbartonshire, Inverclyde, Scottish Borders and Shetland Islands which each had rates of 20 homes or fewer per 10,000 population.
Note that all-sector completion rates calculations contain some estimated figures for East Dunbartonshire, South Ayrshire, and Stirling. Further details are in the Data and Methodology section.
Map A: New build housing – All Sector completions: rates per 10,000 population, year to the end of September 2025
The latest quarterly data and comparison to the corresponding quarter in the previous year to end of September are shown in the ‘Quarterly Comparisons’ section. Timeseries data along with local authority breakdowns are contained in the supporting Excel tables.
Annual data on all-tenure completions will be used to monitor progress against the new all tenure house building delivery ambition, to increase house building by 10% each year, for 3 years, from a baseline of the 12 month period of July 2024 to June 2025.