Housing Statistics for Scotland Quarterly Update: New Housebuilding and Affordable Housing Supply to end June 2025
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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Social sector new housebuilding
The social sector housing (local authority and housing association units combined) accounted for just under a quarter (24.4%) of all new build homes completed in the year to the end of June 2025.
Social sector new build completions (4,595) in the year to the end of June 2025 were down 14% (-737 homes) from the previous year. There were 2,955 new build starts in the social sector, with a decrease of 20% (-743 homes) from the previous year. Completions were the lowest since the year to the end of June 2017 and starts were the lowest since the beginning of this data collection from year to the end of June 1997.
Chart 3: Social sector new build housing, Scotland, 2004 to 2025 (years to the end of June)
Chart 3 shows the number of local authority and housing association new build homes started and completed each year since 2004 (years to the end of June). In the year to the end of June 2025 there were 2,448 housing association led completions and 1,617 starts.
Between 2024 and 2025 (years to the end of June), local authority led starts decreased (-3%, -39 homes) and housing association starts decreased (-30%, -704 homes). Local authority led completions increased (19%, 340 homes) and housing association completions decreased (-31%, -1,077 homes).
Map C below shows the rates of social sector new build completions in each local authority area for the year to the end of June 2025 per 10,000 of the population.
Map C: New build housing – social sector completions: rates per 10,000 population, year to the end of June 2025
Social sector new completion build rates were highest in Aberdeen City, South Ayrshire and East Renfrewshire with a rate of over 15 homes per 10,000 population.
There were four local authorities who built no social sector homes in the year to the end of June 2025 (Clackmannanshire, East Dunbartonshire, Inverclyde and Na h-Eileanan Siar).
Local authority new build rates were highest in East Renfrewshire, having rates of over 15 homes per 10,000 population. Seven local authorities built no local authority homes in the year to the end of June 2025 (Angus, Clackmannanshire, Dundee City, East Dunbartonshire, Renfrewshire, South Lanarkshire, and West Lothian). This excludes the six local authorities that transferred their stock to housing associations so do not build new local authority houses (Argyll & Bute, Dumfries & Galloway, Glasgow, Inverclyde, Na h-Eileanan Siar and Scottish Borders).
Housing association new build rates were highest in Dundee City with a rate of over 15 homes per 10,000 population. Seven local authorities built no housing association homes in the year to the end of June 2025 (Clackmannanshire, East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, Falkirk, Inverclyde, Na h-Eileanan Siar and West Dunbartonshire).
The latest quarterly data and comparison to the corresponding quarter in the previous year to the end of June are shown in the ‘Quarterly Comparisons’ section. Timeseries data along with local authority breakdowns are contained in the supporting Excel tables.