Private sector rent statistics: 2010 - 2020

Broad Rental Market Area Profile – Dumfries and Galloway

Note in the following text and charts that average rents that have changed within +/- 0.5% could be considered as being fairly similar to previous periods.

Average (mean) rents in Dumfries and Galloway between 2019 and 2020 have increased for 4 bedroom (0.6%) and 1 bedroom shared (8.3%) properties, have remained at a similar level (0.1%) for 2 bedroom properties, and have decreased for 1 bedroom (-2.3%) and 3 bedroom (-0.6%) properties, which compares to CPI inflation of 0.5% across this time period. Between 2010 and 2020 average rents have increased for all property sizes, ranging from 9.4% for 2 bedroom properties up to 19.5% for 4 bedroom properties. This compares to CPI inflation of 21.5% across this time period.

In the latest two years, 4 bedroom properties have seen rents at the bottom end (lower quartile) increase narrowing the gap between the lower end and the upper end.

Average 2 bedroom rents have been lower than the Scotland average in each year since 2010, and the gap has grown over the years, with the average rent in 2020 being £476 per month, compared to the Scotland average of £689.1