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Scotland’s cheapest and most expensive areas to buy house named — see full list

The cheapest and most expensive areas of Scotland to buy a home over the past year have been revealed.

On Tuesday, Registers of Scotland published its yearly property market report. Covering 20 years of trends in residential and non-residential property sales from 2003-04 to 2023-24, the report by the non-ministerial department of the Scottish Government shows the median price of residential properties across all of Scotland’s 32 council areas in the last 12 months.




According to the research, East Lothian had the highest median price of all local authorities over the last 12 months, at £283,227. This marks an increase of three per cent when compared to the year before, and 183 per cent since 2003.

East Renfrewshire follows behind in second, where the median residential property price was found to be £280,000. The council area has seen its residential properties fall by one per cent in value compared with the previous year, though prices have risen by 127 per cent since 2003.

In third place, and the most expensive Scottish city on the list, is Edinburgh with a median residential property price of £270,000 over the past year. The property market report states that the median price of a home in the Scottish capital has remained unchanged since last year, though it has increased by 116 per cent over the past 20 years.

Rounding out the top five areas with the highest median residential property prices between 2023 and 2024 are East Dunbartonshire and Midlothian, with figures of £260,000 and £255,000 respectively. The former has seen a median price rise of 143 per cent since 2003, while the latter has increased by a staggering 200 per cent.

Inverclyde, which is home to towns such as Gourock (pictured), is the area of Scotland with the lowest residential property prices(Image: VWB photos / Getty Images)

On the other hand, Inverclyde was found to have the lowest median house price between 2023 and 2024, at £107,108. The cost of residential properties in the region has risen by 13 per cent over the last year, and 95 per cent across the past 20 years.

The area of Scotland with the second-lowest median residential property price over the past year is East Ayrshire, at £117,000. According to the report, properties here have fallen in value by three per cent compared with the previous year, though have risen by 148 per cent since 2003.

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