These statistics are compiled using data collected as part of the statutory land registration process. The data is extracted based on the date that the application for registration is received by Registers of Scotland (RoS), rather than on the date of entry contained within the application. This data is comprehensive, covering transactions across the whole of Scotland for all types of property sales, in residential and non-residential markets, using actual sale prices.
Our data is subject to a quality assurance process, which aims to:
- exclude sales that are not market value sales, for example transfers of ownership between family members and sales of a share of a property (e.g. one-half or one-third); council Right-to-Buy sales and shared ownership sales are difficult to identify but, where identified, they are excluded as a potential sale of less than market value
- include only single residential dwellings; it will therefore exclude farmhouses with farmland attached (these are designated as “agriculture” and will be included in the non-residential section), estates with multiple properties / outbuildings and residential properties with a non-residential use, e.g. properties open to the public (these are designated as “commercial” and will be included in the non-residential section).
There were an estimated 26,000 transactions that were not market value residential sales in 2024-25, with a value in the region of £4.3 million (where a value was provided at the point of sale). The types of sales that are excluded are listed above, with over 20% of these related to the transfer of a share of a property.
In 2024-25, RoS has been working to reduce the volumes of unassigned house types in the Residential Market House Types section. While the number of unassigned sales decreases over time as applications are completed and more information becomes available, a number of sales remained unclassified through our GIS-based house type classification system. This work, along with improvements to our mapping processes and systems, has helped to reduce the total number of unassigned sales from 2003-04 to 2023-24 from 69,554, as reported in last year’s report, to 38,028.
Further information about this work has been added to the background section, and we will continue these improvements over the coming year with a view to further reducing unassigned sales on an ongoing basis.
More information about the data and how these statistics are compiled is available in the background and contact information section of the report.
RoS also publishes data for the Scottish component of the UK House Price Index (UK HPI). Please note that the statistics presented here are distinct from the UK HPI with differences in methodologies including date range of extraction and type of average used. While the trends are broadly similar, the resulting average residential house price figures reflect the different methodologies used.
You can download the data tables used in this report and the monthly, quarterly and calendar year statistics can be viewed via our house price statistics section.
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