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Introduction
This bulletin presents data on housing activity in
Scotland for the fourth quarter of 2004. It includes
information on public sector house sales, new house
building, and local authority lettings and evictions. Due
to housing stock transfers, figures for local authority
dwellings do not include authorities with total stock
transfers from 2003 quarter 2 onwards.
The main points to emerge from the bulletin are as
follows:
1. New house building: 5,255 new dwellings
were
started during the period October to
December 2004, 491 (9%) less than during the same period in
the previous year. 6,409 dwellings were
completed during October to December 2004,
21 less than during the same period in 2003. Year on year
comparisons show a gradual increase in completions, and a
somewhat sharper increase for new build starts.
2. Sales of public authority dwellings: A
total of
2,968 public authority dwellings were
sold to sitting tenants in the period
October to December 2004, a decrease of 519 (15%) on the
same period in 2003.
3. Lettings and evictions: During the
quarter October to December 2004, there were
8,360 permanent lettings of local authority
dwellings, 1,581 (16%) less than during the same
quarter in the previous year. There were
202 evictions of local authority tenants
this quarter, 46 (19%) less than during October to December
2003.
Applications to buy and sales of public
authority dwellings to sitting tenants: Scotland
1995-2004
Note: For the purposes of comparison, 2003 and 2004 data
include stock from authorities with complete stock
transfers in the course of 2003.
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