Assets by Length of Ownership

New assets in community ownership in 2023: 26

Figure 4: Just over half of assets have been owned for 10 years or less

The number of community owned assets recorded in Scotland as of 31 December 2023 by length of ownership

Length of ownership is calculated using the year an asset was transferred to community ownership. Should a transfer date later come to be known or changed from its current value, the data will be revised.

The figure is available in the Figures supporting document.

Of the community owned assets in 2023, 427 were acquired in the last ten years, with 60 (7%) acquired more than 25 years ago. Just under a fifth of assets (166) were acquired between one and five years ago, with 3% (26) acquired in the last year.

There were 5 assets (1%) where the year of ownership is unknown or currently unavailable. Four of these assets are not on the Land Register making it more difficult to find the year of ownership. The other is a ‘Structure on land not owned’ where the community group were not able to provide the year of ownership of the structure.