Scottish Housing Market Review: Q4 2022
Quarterly bulletin collating a range of statistics on the Scottish housing market, such as house prices and transactions, rental trends, cost and availability of finance, etc.
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3. Residential LBTT
Residential LBTT revenues excluding ADS rose sharply from £20.8m in February 2021 to £38.1m in March 2021, before falling to £18.3m in April 2021, as transactions were brought forward due to the temporary increase of the zero rate threshold for all buyers to £250K, which took effect on 15 July 2020 and ended on 31 March 2021. Then from May 2021 residential LBTT revenues picked up and remained elevated relative to previous years, with revenue for the 2021-22 financial year 53.3% higher than the average for 2019-20 and 2020-21.
This trend has continued in the first eight months of 2022-23, with revenue 68.2% higher than the same eight months in 2019-20, prior to Covid-19. The increase in residential LBTT revenue can be explained by higher house prices (see Chart 2.1).
Source: Revenue Scotland
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