The Aberdeen Housing Market Report, released by the Centre for Real Estate Research at the University of Aberdeen Business School, covers the second quarter of 2025.

The report discloses that the indices are more positive:

• The quarterly house price change in Aberdeen is 3.8 per cent
• The annual house price change in Aberdeen is -0.7 per cent
• The annualised house price change over 5 years in Aberdeen is 0.8 per cent

It also details that the number of transactions, compared like for like, on a year on year basis, has increased, by an (overall) magnitude of 13 per cent.

In detail, the figures are:

• Flats have shown an increase in transactions of 3.4 per cent, compared to the second quarter of 2024.
• Semi - detached dwellings have shown an increase of 25.2 per cent.
• Detached dwellings have shown an increase of 8.0 per cent.

ASPC chairman John MacRae said: “These figures are encouraging, coming as they do after a year that also showed some positive signs of similar upward progress in activity. Bear in mind, also, that the year on year comparison is the more appropriate comparison, rather than comparing second quarter to first quarter. This is because the activity in our local housing market tends to be seasonally affected, to an extent. The mark-up ratio (0.99) is another indicator in line with the general trend disclosed in the report.

“I can, perhaps, be excused a slight tendency to look for the positives, in these reports, but a combination of reasonable increases in activity, over a sustained period, together with modest improvement in price indicators, does permit an optimistic point of view, I feel. Contrary to what you may have heard, or read, elsewhere, our local housing market is in an improving state and has been for around two years. Things, at times, have been difficult, but we appear to be beyond that now, with steady improvement and recovery.”