Glasgow new builds lagging behind Edinburgh

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Glasgow is struggling in comparison with Edinburgh with regards to creating new housing inventory, evaluation of presidency statistics from property company DJ Alexander has discovered.

Between 2023/24 Edinburgh had the very best variety of all sector new builds at 1,890, which is 12.5% of the full.

Glasgow metropolis, nevertheless, solely had 440 newbuild begins which is simply 2.9% of the full and the bottom annual determine ever since this information started being collated in 1996.

If you happen to add collectively the areas surrounding Edinburgh to incorporate Fife, Midlothian, West Lothian and East Lothian, 38.9% of all newbuild begins in Scotland are occurring in and across the capital.

David Alexander, chief government officer of DJ Alexander Scotland, stated: “We can not have a housing sector which is concentrated on one a part of Scotland on the expense of the remainder of the nation. We’d like housing throughout all areas to satisfy demand now and sooner or later.

“Edinburgh and the encircling areas at the moment are taking over a rising quantity of newbuild exercise, and, in the long run, this can’t be wholesome for the broader Scottish housing market. We’d like a broad vary of exercise over a wider geographic space to make sure that demand is being met wherever it arises.”

New construct throughout Scotland fell from 16,582 in 2023/24 to fifteen,104 in 2024/25, which is the bottom 12-month determine since 2012/13.

To place this into context, these numbers are 4,327 and 5,838 decrease respectively than the pandemic years of 2020/21 and 2021/22.

Alexander added: “If provide stays subdued on the present stage, then there can solely be one consequence which is bigger demand resulting in a lot better worth rises because the market struggles to supply sufficient properties for Scotland’s present and future inhabitants.

“The non-public rented sector has by no means skilled the present stage of demand. We frequently have unprecedented numbers of individuals making use of for properties with out satisfactory provide to satisfy the variety of tenants.

“On condition that the quantity of social housing is already unable to satisfy the present demand for properties, with a whole bunch of hundreds on ready lists, and tens of hundreds homeless and in short-term lodging, there may be the very actual risk that these figures spotlight simply how a lot worse an already troublesome market goes to get.”

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