{"id":27643,"date":"2025-04-17T13:36:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T13:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/27643\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T13:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T13:36:11","slug":"scotland-outperforms-england-and-wales-in-housing-market-growth-research-reveals-the-intermediary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/27643\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland outperforms England and Wales in housing market growth, research reveals &#8211; The Intermediary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theintermediary.co.uk\/2025\/03\/landmark-and-barbour-abi-launch-new-planning-api\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Landmark Information Group\u2019s<\/a> report for Q1 2025 found that the housing market in Scotland remained steady and outperformed England and Wales.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The data showed completions in Scotland rose by 18%, while listings increased by 11% year-on-year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Buyer demand remained stable, with sold subject to missives (SSTM) volumes 11% higher than last year, though there was some softening mid-quarter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Annual house price growth reached 4.3%, with continued affordability and lower average prices supporting the market.<\/p>\n<p>Landmark Information Group\u2019s report also included figures for England and Wales.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The research found the Stamp Duty changes in Q1 2025 caused a 30% jump in completions, with a 71% surge in March as buyers aimed to finish before the SDLT reversal deadline.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mortgage valuation volumes rose by 8% compared with Q2 2024, as buyers took advantage of steady interest rates, especially 5-year fixed-rate deals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sold subject to contract (SSTC) activity increased by 4.4% month-on-month from February to March.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the report revealed that search volumes were up 23% year-on-year in January but settled to baseline levels by February and March.<\/p>\n<p>Simon Brown, CEO of Landmark Information Group, said: \u201cThis quarter\u2019s data paints a picture of a market that remains fundamentally stable.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe SDLT spike was expected, but beyond that we\u2019re seeing meaningful signs of resilience from the market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAffordability is still a challenge, but buyers remain engaged and steady mortgage conditions are improving access to finance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brown added: \u201cThe opportunity now is to support this progress by making the transaction process faster, more certain and connected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the right focus, the property market can play a central role in supporting the UK\u2019s wider economic growth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt Landmark, we\u2019ll continue providing the insight and digital innovation the industry needs to deliver that potential.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Landmark Information Group\u2019s report for Q1 2025 found that the housing market in Scotland remained steady and outperformed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5009],"tags":[748,4884,6791,16683,2343,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-27643","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scotland","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-housing-market","11":"tag-landmark-information-group","12":"tag-research","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114353575348766022","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}