Scotland added only 19,779 homes to its housing stock in 2024–25, according to the Scottish Government’s Housing Statistics 2025 key trends summary. That was 628 fewer homes than the 20,407 added in 2023–24, a fall of 3%.
The government says 2024–25 was the lowest annual total of new housing supply since 2017–18, when the total was 19,249, except for 2020–21 when COVID-19 restrictions hit housebuilding. Supply was also 15% below the pre-COVID year of 2019–20 and 28% below the 2007–08 peak.
Nearly all of the 2024–25 total came from new-build homes (97%). Rehabilitations and conversions accounted for the remaining 3%. The series covers new house building plus housing association and Affordable Housing Supply Programme rehabilitations and net conversions; it does not subtract demolitions, which ScotGov publishes separately and notes are incomplete across tenures.
Of the homes added in 2024–25, 14,772 were private new-build. Housing associations built 2,792 and councils built 1,698, so social new-build was 4,490. Rehabilitations added 55 homes, and net conversions added 462.
The year-on-year drop was in social new-build, not private. Social new-build fell by 811, from 5,301 in 2023–24, when housing associations built 3,372 and councils built 1,929. Private new-build rose by 87, from 14,685. Rehabilitations were 57 the year before, and net conversions were 364.
In the Supply of new housing workbook, public means housing-association and council new-build only. Rehabilitations and net conversions are not part of that public figure.