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Key messages:
- We published our Annual Property Market Report
- Improving the quality and customer understanding of expedite requests
- Document labelling in DSS – launching in July
- New burdens & servitudes questions in RLP – launching in July
- Performance reporting
We published our Annual Property Market Report
Register of Scotland’s annual Property Market Report is now available.
The report gives a long-term view of residential sales in Scotland, with breakdowns by house types, new builds, cash and mortgage sales, local authorities, cities, urban rural areas, and Scottish Island Regions. There are also figures on non-residential sales too.
Key figures for 2025-26:
- The median price of a residential property in Scotland was £198,000, an increase of 4% from £190,000 in 2024-25
- The total number of residential property sales in Scotland was 104,408, an increase of 5% compared to 2024-25
- The total market value of residential property sales in Scotland was £24.3 billion in 2025-26, an increase of 7% compared to 2024-25
Find out more and read the report in full on our website.
Improving the quality and customer understanding of expedite requests
Updated web guidance and redesigned forms have been introduced to enhance the quality of expedite requests and improve customer understanding.
By providing separate content and forms for citizens and professionals, the changes ensure that all required information is submitted upfront.
This is expected to reduce the number of rejected requests and minimise delays caused by the need to gather additional details.
Document labelling in Digital Submission Service (DSS) – go live planned
We recently told you about planned changes to DSS.
We have been working on updating the submission process to ensure that uploaded documents are meaningfully labelled. Your document inventory will be carried through from Register Land & Property (RLP) to DSS, and we will ask you to upload the relevant document for each item in the inventory. We will also ask you to add a label to any documents added during submission which were not included in the inventory.
With this change, if the subjects of an application are in a RoS research area (RA), you will be advised that deeds prior to the split-off no longer need to be listed in the document inventory in RLP.
When are you making these changes?
These changes will go live in August. We will send an update with the exact date as soon as possible, with further information on what’s changing.
New questions on burdens & servitudes in RLP – go live planned
We recently told you about plans to introduce new targeted questions that help identify pertinent burdens and servitudes.
We will ask you to confirm whether the deed inducing registration contains new burdens and/or servitudes.
We will also ask you to identify all the prior deeds that contain burdens and/or servitudes affecting the plot to be registered.
Currently we only ask you to tell us about burdens and servitudes that were not mentioned in the deed inducing registration.
Why are you doing this?
These changes are part of a series of changes to the application journey that collectively seek to improve, simplify and increase registration efficiency.
When are you making these changes?
These changes will go live in August. We will send an update with the exact date as soon as possible, with further information on what’s changing.
Our performance pages
You can keep up to date with how we are performing by visiting our performance pages. These are updated every month.
Contact us
For general enquiries or specific questions about an application contact:
Email: customerservices@ros.gov.uk | Online form
Phone: 0800 169 9391