Housing Statistics for Scotland Quarterly Update: New Housebuilding and Affordable Housing Supply to end December 2024
This statistical publication presents latest quarterly figures to end December 2024 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 comparrisons
Charts 4 and 5, which show the number of quarterly new build starts and completions in the year to the end of December 2024 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 2023 and 2024, by quarter, year to end December, Scotland
As Chart 4 shows, there were fewer private sector starts in October to December 2024 compared with the same period in 2023 (-4%; -134 homes). Local authority led and housing association starts both increased by 24% (118 homes) and 44% (152 homes) respectively.
Chart 5: Housebuilding completions for 2023 and 2024, by quarter, year to end December, Scotland
Chart 5 shows lower private sector led completions (-1%, -23 homes), housing association completions (-26%, -218 homes) and local authority led completions (-37%; -195 homes) when comparing October to December 2024 to the same period in 2023.
Timeseries data along with local authority breakdowns are contained in the supporting Excel tables.