Local-authority profile · S12000026

Scottish Borders

Scotland · Scotland

Comparative position

What stands out in Scottish Borders

These are statistical positions, not causal claims. A high or low percentile says where the latest published value sits among comparable UK local authorities.

Short stays3rd

Observed short-stay density

43.8 / 100 km² · UK median 582.8 / 100 km²

Sales88th

Two-year sale-price growth

8.8% · UK median 3.5%

Sales18th

Average sale price

£195,045 · UK median £271,488

Observed change

Two years in context

Average sale price+8.8%
August 2024£195,045August 2026
Average monthly rentNot available

Rent evidence is published at a different geography for this area.

Not availableNot availableNot available

Release history

How the observation layer changed

This compares approved observation releases for Scottish Borders. It describes movement in the evidence system, not verified additions to or removals from local housing stock.

Current allocation2,075

22 Oct 2026

Release-to-release change+283

+15.8%

Search completion100%

+0 percentage points

Allocated current records5 approved releases
9 Sept 2026+283 records22 Oct 2026

Property size

Average private rent by bedroom count

Official modelled monthly rent levels. The four-bedroom band includes properties with four or more bedrooms.

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One bedroom

02—

Two bedrooms

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Three bedrooms

04—

Four or more

Interpretation boundary

What the profile measures—and what it does not

Prices and sales

Mix-adjusted local price indices. Registered-sale counts show provisional source records and must not be read as final market activity.

Private rents

A modelled stock measure covering new and existing tenancies. Scotland and Northern Ireland use rental geographies that do not map directly to local-authority boundaries, so those values remain blank here.

Gross yield proxy

Average annual rent divided by average sale price for the same month. The source populations cover different homes and no costs are deducted.

Short-stay observations

2,075 aggregate records allocated from 73 intersecting observation cells. The value is not complete inventory or a count of unique dwellings.

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Source and citation

Suggested citation

Upgraded Intelligence (2026), “Scottish Borders property profile”, UK Property Atlas release 2026.10, updated 22 Oct 2026.