Short Term Lets Licensing Statistics Scotland to 30 June 2024
This statistical publication presents information on the number of valid short term lets licence applications received, granted and pending determination as at 30 June 2024, by type of let, type of property and other accommodation details, based on data collected from local authorities from 1 October 2022.
Licence in operation: premise type, type of let, and accommodation information
As Table 4 shows most licences in operation relate to secondary lettings (78%; type of let) and houses (61%; premises type), with the most common premises being a detached house. This is a very similar profile to applications validated.
Table 4: Licences in operation as of 30 June 2024, by type of premises and type of let
|
Licences in operation |
% Licences in operation |
|
|
Total Licences |
21,075 |
|
|
Type of short term let |
|
|
|
Home Sharing |
2,143 |
10% |
|
Home Letting |
1,443 |
7% |
|
Home Sharing and letting |
1,002 |
5% |
|
Secondary Letting |
16,487 |
78% |
|
Type of premises |
|
|
|
Detached House |
8,064 |
38% |
|
Semi-detached house |
2,879 |
14% |
|
Terraced House |
1,968 |
9% |
|
Self-contained flat |
6,782 |
32% |
|
Unconventional Dwelling |
1,382 |
7% |
Tables 14 and 15 in the supporting Excel document show the number of licences in operation by each local authority, by type of premises and type of let. Like applications received and validated, the local authority breakdowns show some variations in the proportions of types of premises across different local authority areas, some of which may reflect different underlying profiles of total dwellings in each area.
Overall, at least, 53,307 bedrooms and a total maximum occupancy of 109,450 people were reported in the licences or exemptions in operation. There were some licences where information was missing (4% of for bedrooms, and 1 licence missing information for maximum occupancy).
Fife reported the highest average number of bedrooms per licence (3.9) with the lowest reported as Edinburgh (2.0) and Inverclyde (2.0).
West Lothian reported the highest average maximum occupancy per licence (7.5) with the lowest reported as Glasgow (3.7)
Accommodation unit information has been provided for 81% (16,966) of the 21,075 licences or exemptions in operation, equating to a total of 19,468 accommodation units. Excluding authorities with fewer than 10 total records with accommodation information, authorities with the highest average number of accommodation units per licence in operation was reported in East Renfrewshire (2.6 units per licence).
Table 16 in the supporting excel file has accommodation information for each local authority.
14,369 (68%) of licences have EPC data associated with them. 40% of these have an EPC rating in the A-C range. Further EPC rating data can be found in the Scotland Summary table presented in the supporting tables.
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