Titles outwith UK by local authority and interest


This section looks at titles outwith UK by local authority and interest.

The chart shows the number of titles with an owner address outwith the UK by local authority and interest.

Around one in three (31%) outwith UK titles were in the City of Edinburgh or Glasgow city, both with 99% ownership versus 1% tenancy.

Ownership is the majority interest across most of Scotland with the exception of Renfrewshire.

Renfrewshire accounts for around one in ten of the outwith UK titles (10.7% or 2,880 titles), of which 78% (or 2,256 titles) related to a tenancy interest. A contributory factor to this is the number of titles of parking spaces and storage facilities near to Glasgow Airport. This is an unusual form that doesn’t appear to be repeated in any other local authority.

If Renfrewshire was excluded, the average proportion of tenancy interest across the other 31 local authority areas was 1.4% compared with 9.6% across the whole of Scotland.

This chart shows around one in three outwith UK titles were in the City of Edinburgh or Glasgow City (online table 5)

Titles with an owner address outwith the UK by local authority and interest as at 31 December 2022

Number of titles with owner address outwith UK by local authority and interest as at 31 Dec 22


Top 10 postcode sectors by number of outwith UK titles

The table shows the top 10 postcodes sectors across Scotland by number of outwith UK titles.

The top two postcodes sectors were within Renfrewshire and account for 62% of titles owned or leased from outwith the UK within the local authority. Total number of titles in Renfrewshire with owner address outwith the UK was 2,880.

This table shows the top 10 postcode sectors by numbers of titles with owner address outwith UK as at 31 December 2022 (online table 6)

Top 10 postcode sectors by number of titles with owner address outwith UK as at 31 December 2022
Rank Postcode sector Post town Local authority Number of titles
1 PA3 3 Paisley Renfrewshire 908
2 PA3 1 Paisley Renfrewshire 874
3 EH3 9 Edinburgh City of Edinburgh 428
4 PA1 2 Paisley Renfrewshire 345
5 PA3 2 Paisley Renfrewshire 274
6 KY16 9 St AndrewsFife 245
7 EH3 6EdinburghCity of Edinburgh 240
8 EH9 1 Edinburgh City of Edinburgh 225
9 EH7 5 Edinburgh City of Edinburgh 214
10 EH8 9 Edinburgh City of Edinburgh 188

The table shows the top 10 postcode sectors across Scotland by number of outwith UK titles excluding tenancy, such as long-term leases on car parking spaces.

Out of the top 10, 8 are in the City of Edinburgh, accounting for 6.7% (1,813 titles) of all outwith UK titles.

This table shows the top 10 postcode sectors by number of titles with owner address otwith UK excluding tenancy as at 31 December 2022 (online table 7).

Top 10 postcode sectors by number of titles with owner address outwith UK excluding tenancy as at 31 December 2022
Rank Postcode sector Post town Local authority Number of titles
1 EH3 9 Edinburgh City of Edinburgh 425
2 KY16 9 St Andrews Fife 242
3 EH3 6EdinburghCity of Edinburgh 240
4 EH9 1 Edinburgh City of Edinburgh 225
5 EH7 5 Edinburgh City of Edinburgh 213
6 EH8 9 Edinburgh City of Edinburgh 184
7 EH10 4 Edinburgh City of Edinburgh 182
8 EH11 1EdinburghCity of Edinburgh 175
9 EH4 1 Edinburgh City of Edinburgh 169
10 G11GlasgowGlasgow City 168

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