Housing Statistics for Scotland Quarterly Update: New Housebuilding and Affordable Housing Supply to end December 2025
This statistical publication presents latest quarterly figures to end December 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
17,336 new homes were built (completed), and 14,999 homes were started in 2025, with completions down 13% (2,509) and starts down 6% (919) from 2024. These figures include all social and private sector led activity.
Chart 1: All-sector new housebuilding starts and completions, Scotland, 2004 to 2025
Chart 1 shows the annual number of all-sector starts and completions from 2004 to 2025. Excluding 2020 (where Covid-19 impacted housebuilding), all-sector completions were the lowest since 2016 and starts were the lowest since 2013.
Map A shows that in 2025; the highest new build rates were in Midlothian 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 Renfrewshire, Falkirk, Inverclyde, North Lanarkshire, Scottish Borders, Shetland Islands and South Ayrshire 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 housebuilding – all-sector completions: rates per 10,000 population in 2025
The latest quarterly data and comparison of quarters within 2024 and 2025 are shown in the ‘Quarterly Comparisons’ section. Timeseries data along with local authority breakdowns are contained in the supporting Excel tables.