Housing Statistics for Scotland Quarterly Update: New Housebuilding and Affordable Housing Supply to end March 2025
This statistical publication presents latest quarterly figures to end March 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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Quarterly comparisons
Charts 4 and 5, which show the number of quarterly new build starts and completions in 2024-25 compared with the previous financial year. Comparisons of quarterly data should be made to the corresponding quarter in a previous financial year as there have been no seasonal adjustments made to the data.
Chart 4: Housebuilding starts for 2023-24 and 2024-25, by quarter, Scotland
Chart 4 shows fewer private sector led starts (-8%, -230 homes), housing association starts (-51%, -383 homes) and local authority led starts (-28%; -93 homes) when comparing January to March 2024-25 to the same period in 2023-24.
Chart 5: Housebuilding completions for 2023-24 and 2024-25, by quarter, Scotland
Chart 5 shows lower private sector led completions (-11%, -355 homes), housing association completions (-39%, -319 homes) and local authority led completions (-6%; -26 homes) when comparing January to March 2024-25 to the same period in 2023-24.
Timeseries data along with local authority breakdowns are contained in the supporting Excel tables.