Private sector rent statistics: 2010 - 2020

Broad Rental Market Area Profile – West Lothian

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 West Lothian between 2019 and 2020 have increased for 1 bedroom (1.8%), 2 bedroom (1.1%), 4 bedroom (4.7%) and 1 bedroom shared properties (1.0%), but have decreased for 3 bedroom properties (-0.7%), which compares to CPI inflation of 0.5% across this time period. Average rents have increased for all property sizes between 2010 and 2020, ranging from 19.7% for 1 bedroom properties up to 32.5% for 4 bedroom properties, which compares to CPI inflation of 21.5% across this time period.

For 3 and 4 bedroom properties, increases at the top end of the market (upper quartile) between 2010 and 2020 have generally been higher than increases in the bottom end (lower quartile) increasing the gap in rents between the top and bottom of the market slightly.

Average 2 bedroom rents have been lower than the Scotland average in each year since 2010, with the average rent in 2020 being £636 per month, compared to the Scotland