>Solicitors and estate agents Lindsays found that its average sale price in Edinburgh during 2025 was £354,522 – a rise of 2.6 per cent on the previous year’s figure of £345,310.
>According to the latest UK House Price Index, the average price of a property in Scotland overall is £194,000, up 5.3% year-on-year.
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>However, the firm says a **lack of supply continues to push up prices, with demand from buyers still outstripping availability.**
We need new houses built!
New builds, and lots of them, will fix this.
But there’s money in that status quo so that won’t happen.
Cheaper than. New Zealand 😊
West town needs higher density housing.
Hell the regeneration around Boroughmuir should be high density tenements rather than student housing.
Same for Gyle area, Colinton, Gilmerton, etc.
But that’s not what we’re (consistently) getting.
I can’t say this enough – move out of the city and enjoy a better life. You’ll think you’ll miss it but you really won’t. Caveat – be near a train-line/good access routes.
All that’s built in Edinburgh these days is overpriced student accommodation for wealthy internationals getting ripped off by greedy companies circumventing tax laws (most of which are won on appeal from the Scottish Government), hotels for the endless stream of tourists, or shoddy new builds that encroach on the greenbelt that are doomed to require major renovation after 5 years.
Edinburgh isn’t a city built for its residents, it’s a victim of its own success like any other major tourist centre, saturated in Air BnBs, tartan tourist tat shops and overpriced festivals. Venice, Barcelona, Prague; they’ve all seen a decline in the native population as they’re priced out of a city that was once theirs.
20 years from now you won’t have an Edinburgh like we’ve known, with locals and indigenous Scottish culture hollowed out for mass globalist consumption that retains our proud ‘heritage’ through exorbitant pewter ‘clan’ crests and threadbare Isle of Lewis tweed made in China.
One search on rightmove can tell you this is baws
It will moderate prices for those particular house types in those areas, meaning prices might grow slightly slower. I doubt it willlower prices anywhere
The market is segmented this isn’t going to move prices much in the city, any more than doubling Livingston would.
One side of this is more houses. The other is killing off the airbnb-ification of central Edinburgh.
Supply and demand dictates price, nothing new. Edinburgh is a desirable city to live in therefore it costs more.
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>Solicitors and estate agents Lindsays found that its average sale price in Edinburgh during 2025 was £354,522 – a rise of 2.6 per cent on the previous year’s figure of £345,310.
>According to the latest UK House Price Index, the average price of a property in Scotland overall is £194,000, up 5.3% year-on-year.
…
>However, the firm says a **lack of supply continues to push up prices, with demand from buyers still outstripping availability.**
We need new houses built!
New builds, and lots of them, will fix this.
But there’s money in that status quo so that won’t happen.
Cheaper than. New Zealand 😊
West town needs higher density housing.
Hell the regeneration around Boroughmuir should be high density tenements rather than student housing.
Same for Gyle area, Colinton, Gilmerton, etc.
But that’s not what we’re (consistently) getting.
I can’t say this enough – move out of the city and enjoy a better life. You’ll think you’ll miss it but you really won’t. Caveat – be near a train-line/good access routes.
All that’s built in Edinburgh these days is overpriced student accommodation for wealthy internationals getting ripped off by greedy companies circumventing tax laws (most of which are won on appeal from the Scottish Government), hotels for the endless stream of tourists, or shoddy new builds that encroach on the greenbelt that are doomed to require major renovation after 5 years.
Edinburgh isn’t a city built for its residents, it’s a victim of its own success like any other major tourist centre, saturated in Air BnBs, tartan tourist tat shops and overpriced festivals. Venice, Barcelona, Prague; they’ve all seen a decline in the native population as they’re priced out of a city that was once theirs.
20 years from now you won’t have an Edinburgh like we’ve known, with locals and indigenous Scottish culture hollowed out for mass globalist consumption that retains our proud ‘heritage’ through exorbitant pewter ‘clan’ crests and threadbare Isle of Lewis tweed made in China.
One search on rightmove can tell you this is baws
It will moderate prices for those particular house types in those areas, meaning prices might grow slightly slower. I doubt it willlower prices anywhere
The market is segmented this isn’t going to move prices much in the city, any more than doubling Livingston would.
One side of this is more houses. The other is killing off the airbnb-ification of central Edinburgh.
Supply and demand dictates price, nothing new. Edinburgh is a desirable city to live in therefore it costs more.
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