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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Quarterly comparisons
Charts 4 and 5, which show the number of quarterly new build starts and completions in 2025 compared with 2024. Comparisons of quarterly data should be made to the corresponding quarter in a previous year as no seasonal adjustments are made to the data.
Chart 4: Housebuilding starts for 2024 and 2025 by quarter, Scotland
Chart 4 shows that the total number of starts in the quarter October to December were at similar levels in 2024 and 2025 (with a difference of 1%, 22 homes). For the same period, housing association starts were higher (+29%, 149 homes), private led starts were similar (-1%, -36 homes) and local authority starts were lower (-16%, -91 homes).
Chart 5: Housebuilding completions for 2024 and 2025, by quarter, Scotland
Chart 5 shows that the total number of completions in the quarter October to December were lower in 2025 than 2024 (with a difference of -21%, -1,117 homes). For the same period, there were fewer local authority led completions (-50%, -337), housing association led completions (-27%, -174 homes), and private sector led completions (-15%, -606 homes).
Table 1 and 2 show the number of quarterly new build starts and completions in 2024 and 2025.
Table 1: Housebuilding starts for 2024 and 2025, by quarter, Scotland
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2024 |
2025 |
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Jan - Mar (Q1) |
Apr - June (Q2) |
July - Sep (Q3) |
Oct - Dec (Q4) |
Jan - Mar (Q1) |
Apr - June (Q2) |
July - Sep (Q3) |
Oct - Dec (Q4) |
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Private-led |
2,967 |
2,815 |
3,543 |
2,966 |
3,258 |
3,224 |
2,517 |
2,930 |
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Local authority |
335 |
361 |
230 |
567 |
238 |
295 |
290 |
476 |
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Housing association |
747 |
473 |
395 |
519 |
364 |
339 |
400 |
668 |
|
Social sector |
1,082 |
834 |
625 |
1,086 |
602 |
634 |
690 |
1,144 |
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All-sector |
4,049 |
3,649 |
4,168 |
4,052 |
3,860 |
3,858 |
3,207 |
4,074 |
Table 2: Housebuilding completions for 2024 and 2025 by quarter, Scotland
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2024 |
2025 |
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Jan - Mar (Q1) |
Apr - June (Q2) |
July - Sep (Q3) |
Oct - Dec (Q4) |
Jan - Mar (Q1) |
Apr - June (Q2) |
July - Sep (Q3) |
Oct - Dec (Q4) |
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Private-led |
3,240 |
4,032 |
3,710 |
4,028 |
3,002 |
4,012 |
3,289 |
3,422 |
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Local authority |
422 |
269 |
358 |
675 |
396 |
718 |
253 |
338 |
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Housing association |
819 |
755 |
896 |
641 |
500 |
411 |
528 |
467 |
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Social sector |
1,241 |
1,024 |
1,254 |
1,316 |
896 |
1,129 |
781 |
805 |
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All-sector |
4,481 |
5,056 |
4,964 |
5,344 |
3,898 |
5,141 |
4,070 |
4,227 |
Timeseries data along with local authority breakdowns are contained in the supporting Excel tables.