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Housing trends in Scotland
28/11/2006
Information on housing is published today in the statistical bulletin Housing trends in Scotland: quarter ending 30 June 2006. The bulletin presents quarterly information on public sector house sales, new house building and local authority lettings and evictions.
The main points to emerge from the bulletin are as follows:
New house building: 8,985 new dwellings were started during the period April to June 2006, 3,194 (55 per cent) more than during the same period in the previous year. 6,280 dwellings were completed, 88 (1 per cent) less than during the same period in 2005.
Sales of social sector dwellings: A total of 1,659 public authority dwellings were sold to sitting tenants in the period April to June 2006, a decrease of 493 (23 per cent) on the same period in 2005.
Lettings and evictions: During the quarter April to June 2006, there were 8,112 permanent lettings of local authority dwellings, 121 (2 per cent) more than during the same quarter in the previous year. There were 249 evictions of local authority tenants this quarter, 2 (1 per cent) less than during April to June 2005.
The statistical bulletin can be found at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00533