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Publication - Statistics

Housing Statistics for Scotland Quarterly Update: New Housebuilding and Affordable Housing Supply to end June 2025

Published
30 September 2025
From
Cabinet Secretary for Housing
Directorate
Local Government and Housing Directorate
Topic
Housing

This statistical publication presents latest quarterly figures to end June 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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Key Points

New housebuilding by sector

  • There were 18,869 homes built (completed) and 15,202 new builds started in the year to the end of June 2025. Completions (-1,203; -6%) and starts (-545; -3%) were lower than the previous year.
  • The private sector built 14,274 homes and started 12,247 new builds in the year to the end of June 2025. Completions (-466; -3.2%) were lower than the previous year and starts (+198; +1.6%) were higher than the previous year.
  • The social sector built 4,595 homes and started building 2,955 homes in the year to the end of June 2025. Completions (-737; -14%) and starts (-743, -20%) were lower than the previous year.
  • Looking at years to the end June and excluding 2020 (where Covid-19 impacted housebuilding), private sector completions were the lowest since the year to the end of June 2018 and starts were higher than the previous year. In the social sector, completions were the lowest since the year to the end of 2017 and starts were the lowest since the beginning of this data collection from year to the end of June 1997.

Affordable Housing Supply Programme

  • In the year to the end of June 2025, there were 4,680 approvals, 5,313 starts, and 6,851 completions of affordable homes funded by the Scottish Governments Affordable Housing Supply Programme. This includes affordable homes for social rent, affordable rent, and affordable home ownership. They also include off the shelf purchases and rehabilitations as well as new builds.
  • There were decreases in affordable housing supply approvals (-2,265 -33%), starts (-1,470, -22%), and completions (-2,530, -27%) in the year to the end of June 2025 compared with the previous year.
  • Affordable housing supply approvals were 62% lower than the most recent peak in approvals of 12,362 in the year to the end of June 2020. Starts were the lowest since the year to the end of June 2013 and completions were the lowest since the year to the end of June 2015.
  • These statistics are used to inform progress against Scottish Government affordable housing delivery target to deliver 110,000 affordable homes by 2032, of which at least 70% will be for social rent and 10% will be in rural and island communities. By June 2025, 29,680 affordable homes have been completed towards the target. These completions consist of 22,910 (77%) homes for social rent, 4,213 (14%) for affordable rent, and 2,557 (9%) for affordable home ownership.

 

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