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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Charts 4 and 5, which show the number of quarterly new build starts and completions in the year to the end of September 2025 compared with the previous year. Comparisons of quarterly data should be made to the corresponding quarter in a previous year as there have been no seasonal adjustments made to the data.
Chart 4: Housebuilding starts for 2024 and 2025 (the year to the end of September), by quarter, Scotland
Chart 4 shows that total all tenure starts in July to September 2025 compared to July to September 2024 were lower (-23%, -964 homes). For the same period, private sector led starts were lower (-30%, -1,048 homes), there were a similar number of housing association starts (+1%, +5 homes) and an increase in local authority led starts (34%; 79 homes)
Chart 5: Housebuilding completions for 2024 and 2025 (the year to the end of September), by quarter, Scotland
Chart 5 shows that total all tenure completions in July to September 2025 compared to July to September 2024 were lower (-18%, -904 homes). For the same period, there were fewer housing association completions (-41%, -368 homes), local authority led completions (-29%, - 105) and private sector led completions (-12%, -431 homes).
Table 1 and 2 show the number of quarterly new build starts and completions in the year to the end of September 2024 and the year to the end of September 2025.
Table 1: Housebuilding starts for 2024 and 2025 (the year to the end of September), by quarter, Scotland
|
|
Year to the end of September 2024 |
Year to the end of September 2025 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|
Oct - Dec (Q4) |
Jan - Mar (Q1) |
Apr - June (Q2) |
July – Sep (Q3) |
Oct - Dec (Q4) |
Jan - Mar (Q1) |
Apr - June (Q2) |
July – Sep (Q3) |
|
Private-led |
2,933 |
2,951 |
2,790 |
3,533 |
2,952 |
3,182 |
3,196 |
2,485 |
|
Local Authority |
492 |
335 |
361 |
230 |
567 |
238 |
295 |
309 |
|
Housing Association |
344 |
747 |
473 |
395 |
519 |
364 |
339 |
400 |
|
Social sector |
836 |
1,082 |
834 |
625 |
1,086 |
602 |
634 |
709 |
|
All sector |
3,769 |
4,033 |
3,624 |
4,158 |
4,038 |
3,784 |
3,830 |
3,194 |
Table 2: Housebuilding completions for 2024 and 2025 (the year to the end of September), by quarter, Scotland
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Year to the end of September 2024 |
Year to the end of September 2025 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|
Oct - Dec (Q4) |
Jan - Mar (Q1) |
Apr - June (Q2) |
July – Sep (Q3) |
Oct - Dec (Q4) |
Jan - Mar (Q1) |
Apr - June (Q2) |
July – Sep (Q3) |
|
Private-led |
4,045 |
3,216 |
4,023 |
3,692 |
4,015 |
2,957 |
3,992 |
3,261 |
|
Local Authority |
521 |
422 |
269 |
358 |
675 |
396 |
718 |
253 |
|
Housing Association |
829 |
819 |
755 |
896 |
641 |
500 |
411 |
528 |
|
Social sector |
1,350 |
1,241 |
1,024 |
1,254 |
1,316 |
896 |
1,129 |
781 |
|
All sector |
5,395 |
4,457 |
5,047 |
4,946 |
5,331 |
3,853 |
5,121 |
4,042 |
Timeseries data along with local authority breakdowns are contained in the supporting Excel tables.