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Scottish Social Housing Tender Price Index (SSHTPI) quarterly report: June 2025

Information on the Scottish Social Housing Tender Price Index (SSHTPI) and Quarterly Report for June 2025.


Background

  • the provisional results for 4Q 2024 to 2025 indicate a decline of 1.8% on 3Q 2024 to 2025, and a decrease of 5.8% in the year from 4Q 2023 to 2024
  • the 4Q 2024 to 2025 figure is based on 18 projects and will be subject to revision
  • the firm index for 2Q 2024 to 2025 indicates a quarterly decrease of 3.2%
  • on an annual basis, the 2Q 2024 to 2025 figure is up on 2Q 2023 to 2024 by 5.8%
  • underlying construction costs of labour, materials, and plant, as measured by the BCIS General Building Cost Index (GBCI), increased by 0.4% on a quarter-on-quarter basis in 4Q 2024 to 2025 and increased by 2.4% when compared with the same quarter a year earlier
  • over the year to 4Q 2024 to 2025, underlying inflation, as measured by the Consumer Prices Index (CPI), rose by 2.8%

Table 1: SSHTPI Quarterly Index

Published index base         1985 = 100

Financial quarter notes: 1Q: first quarter April to June; 2Q: second quarter July to September; 3Q: third quarter October to December; 4Q: fourth quarter January to March.

Calendar quarter

Financial quarter

Index value

Sample size

Status

4Q 2017

3Q 2017-2018

280

36

Firm

1Q 2018

4Q 2017-2018

271

45

Firm

2Q 2018

1Q 2018-2019

276

22

Firm

3Q 2018

2Q 2018-2019

284

22

Firm

4Q 2018

3Q 2018-2019

288

38

Firm

1Q 2019

4Q 2018-2019

292

48

Firm

2Q 2019

1Q 2019-2020

292

22

Firm

3Q 2019

2Q 2019-2020

298

31

Firm

4Q 2019

3Q 2019-2020

303

42

Firm

1Q 2020

4Q 2019-2020

299

36

Firm

2Q 2020

1Q 2020-2021

292

6

Firm

3Q 2020

2Q 2020-2021

294

20

Firm

4Q 2020

3Q 2020-2021

304

22

Firm

1Q 2021

4Q 2020-2021

312

24

Firm

2Q 2021

1Q 2021-2022

322

7

Firm

3Q 2021

2Q 2021-2022

321

11

Firm

4Q 2021

3Q 2021-2022

331

26

Firm

1Q 2022

4Q 2021-2022

355

23

Firm

2Q 2022

1Q 2022-2023

362

16

Firm

3Q 2022

2Q 2022-2023

386

17

Firm

4Q 2022

3Q 2022-2023

386

23

Firm

1Q 2023

4Q 2022-2023

402

20

Firm

2Q 2023

1Q 2023-2024

409

22

Firm

3Q 2023

2Q 2023-2024

395

22

Firm

4Q 2023

3Q 2023-2024

382

22

Firm

1Q 2024

4Q 2023-2024

413

25

Firm

2Q 2024

1Q 2024-2025

432

6

Firm

3Q 2024

2Q 2024-2025

418

11

Firm

4Q 2024

3Q 2024-2025

396

11

Provisional

1Q 2025

4Q 2024-2025

389

18

Provisional

Source: Scottish Government

Note: The quarterly index is a smoothed, trimmed geometric mean of the normalised project index (see note on calculation).

Table 2: SSHTPI Location Indices

Calendar quarter 1Q 2025, Financial quarter 4Q 2024 to 2025, Publication quarter 2Q 2025

Location Code

Location

Index Value

Sample Size

Status

M

Mainland

99

286

Provisional

MA

Scottish Borders

110

7

Provisional

MB

Clackmannanshire, Stirling, Falkirk

97

14

Provisional

MC

Dumfries and Galloway

103

9

Provisional

MD

Fife

94

28

Provisional

ME

Aberdeenshire and Moray

113

38

Provisional

MF

Aberdeen City

74

5

Provisional

MG

Highland

90

30

Provisional

MH

West Coast

137

7

Provisional

MJ

City of Edinburgh

114

12

Provisional

MK

Lothian

94

35

Provisional

ML

City of Glasgow

100

12

Provisional

MM

Ayrshire

114

15

Provisional

MN

Glasgow Environs

97

29

Provisional

MP

South Lanarkshire

102

11

Provisional

MQ

Dundee City

114

8

Provisional

MR

Angus, Perth and Kinross

104

26

Provisional

Z

Island

108

20

Provisional

ZA

Orkney Islands

104

7

Provisional

ZB

Shetland Islands

139

5

Provisional

Note: the location indices are calculated over 15 quarters and are based on the Scottish mean = 100 (See note on calculation). Sample sizes <=4 they are not included in Table 2.

Source: Scottish Government

Contact

Email: Kenneth Smith 

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