House prices in Scotland – latest

HOUSE prices in Scotland increased by an average 14.6 per cent during the 12 months to July this year, according to figures released by the Scottish Government agency, Registers of Scotland.
Said Registers of Scotland, yesterday, the 14.6 per cent increase is higher than the 11.8 per cent increase in house prices during the 12 months up to June last year (2020).
It adds (here): “On a non-seasonally adjusted basis average house prices in Scotland increased by two per cent between June and July 2021, compared with a decrease of 0.5 per cent during the same period a year earlier (June and July 2020). On a seasonally adjusted basis, average house prices in Scotland have increased by 1.2 per cent between June and July 2021.”
It also says (here): “The UK average house price was £255,535, which was an increase of eight per cent on July 2020 and a decrease of 3.7 per cent on the previous month.
“The volume of residential sales in Scotland in May 2021 was 8,379, an increase of 171.6 per cent on the original provisional estimate for May 2020.
“This compares with increases of 2.3 per cent in England, 13.7 per cent in Wales, and 41.8 per cent in Northern Ireland (Quarter 1 – 2021 compared with the same quarter in the previous year).”
The house prices were as follows:
Local authority – July 2021 – July 2020 – Percentage difference
Aberdeenshire – £193,078 – £176,721 – 9.3 per cent
Angus – £157,026 – £147,396 – 6.5 per cent
Argyll and Bute – £164,361 – £138,538 – 18.6 per cent
City of Aberdeen – £148,431 – £140,454 – 5.7 per cent
City of Dundee – £143,374 – £125,473 – 14.3 per cent
City of Edinburgh – £309,227 – £285,179 – 8.4 per cent
City of Glasgow – £158,450 – £138,686 – 14.3 per cent
Clackmannanshire – £152,775 – £134,624 – 13.5 per cent
Dumfries and Galloway – £145,315 – £126,253 – 15.1 per cent
East Ayrshire – £109,985 – £98,520 – 11.6 per cent
East Dunbartonshire – £235,970 – £209,234 – 12.8 per cent
East Lothian – £271,067 – £239,136 – 13.4 per cent
East Renfrewshire – £259,350 – £222,624 – 16.5 per cent
Falkirk – £146,233 – £129,313 – 13.1 per cent
Fife – £157,389 – £135,910 – 15.8 per cent
Highland – £182,487 – £168,895 – eight per cent
Inverclyde – £119,168 – £92,393 – 29.0 per cent
Midlothian – £210,931 – £191,337 – 10.2 per cent
Moray – £167,503 – £150,238 – 11.5 per cent
Na h-Eileanan Siar – £132,235 – £121,152 – 9.1 per cent
North Ayrshire – £114,786 – £108,262 – six per cent
North Lanarkshire – £127,823 – £110,640 – 15.5 per cent
Orkney Islands – £183,297 – £133,646 – 37.2 per cent
Perth and Kinross – £218,957 – £196,829 – 11.2 per cent
Renfrewshire – £143,784 – £121,565 – 18.3 per cent
Scottish Borders – £181,783 – £149,655 – 21.5 per cent
Shetland Islands – £180,896 – £127,617 – 41.7 per cent
South Ayrshire – £158,774 – £140,563 – 13.0 per cent
South Lanarkshire – £147,653 – £131,138 – 12.6 per cent
Stirling – £218,602 – £208,410 – 4.9 per cent
West Dunbartonshire – £125,311 – £115,175 – 8.8 per cent
West Lothian – £187,122 – £166,181 – 12.6 per cent
Scotland – £177,166 – £154,582 – 14.6 per cent
Pictured: Newhaven, Edinburgh, Picture credit: Place Design Scotland