Scottish Housing Market Review Q4 2025
Quarterly bulletin collating a range of previously published statistics on the latest trends in the Scottish housing market.
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4. Private Rental Sector
4.1. Private Housing Rental Prices
Rental market data from several letting agents indicates a downward trend in annual growth for new-let rents in Scotland. Citylets data shows the average new-let rent increased annually by 1.9% in Q3 2025, which is the fifth consecutive quarter of decelerating growth and is significantly below the recent peak of 13.7% in Q3 2023. Rightmove data presents a similar trend, with the annual growth rate falling from 14.5% in Q3 2023 to 1.6% in Q3 2025. Based on Citylets data, after adjusting for inflation, new-let rents fell by 1.8%. This is the first time in three years that real rent growth has turned negative.
It should be noted that letting agencies only cover around half of the private rented sector, and each letting agent's data will be affected by its market coverage, which will vary by geography and market segment.
Source: CityLets and ONS
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Email: Jake.Forsyth@gov.scot