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1. This Bulletin presents standard quarterly analyses of housing activity in Scotland for the fourth quarter of 1998, including public sector house sales, new housebuilding, homelessness applications and estimates of housing stock by tenure.
2. Sales of Public Authority Dwellings. There were around 4,300 applications from sitting tenants to buy public authority dwellings in the fourth quarter of 1998. Total sales to sitting tenants for this quarter numbered around 3,600, an overall decrease of about 800 on the same quarter in 1997.
3. New Housebuilding. There were around 4,500 new dwellings started in the fourth quarter of 1998. The total number of dwellings completed in this period was around 4,600, an overall decrease of about 1,100 on the total for the same quarter in 1997.
4. Operation of the Homeless Persons Legislation: During 1998-99, a total of just over 45,700 households applied to local authorities under the homeless persons legislation, an increase of around 2,600 on the number of applications in 1997-98.
5. Tenure of Dwelling Stock: 1998 The provisional estimate of the total dwelling stock as at 31 December 1998 is 2,284,000 (an increase of 16,000 compared with the 1997 estimate). Sixty-one per cent of these dwellings are estimated to be owner occupied, one per cent more than in 1997.
Symbols Used The following symbols are used throughout the bulletin:
.. not available
- nil or less than half the final digit shown
Explanatory Notes
Figures which have been revised for this issue (as well as the percentages in Table 2) are shown in italic type.
In some tables, where figures have been rounded, the total shown may not be equal to the sum of its constituent parts.
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