Compared to the previous month, house prices in Scotland decreased by 0.6 per cent on a non-seasonally adjusted basis, whilst on a seasonally adjusted basis there was an increase of 1.2 per cent.

The UK average house price was £268,000 which was an annual increase of 1.2 per cent on February 2025. Compared with the previous month, UK house prices increased by 0.1 per cent on a non-seasonally adjusted basis and increased by 0.6 per cent on a seasonally adjusted basis.

The volume of residential sales in Scotland in December 2025 was 8,066. When compared with the first published figures for December 2024 this was an annual increase of 8.1 per cent. Published transactions for recent months will increase as later registered transactions are incorporated into the index.

A Registers of Scotland spokesperson said: “There was an increase of 2.3 per cent (to £187,000) in the average house price for Scotland in the 12 months to February 2026. This compares to an increase of 1.2 per cent (to £268,000) in average house prices for the UK as a whole.”

Increases were recorded in 27 out of 32 local authority areas when comparing prices with the previous year. The largest increase was in Inverclyde, where the average price increased by 7.5 per cent to £113,000. The largest decrease was recorded in the City of Aberdeen, where the average price decreased by 6.4 per cent to £128,000.

In February 2026, the highest-priced area to purchase a property was the City of Edinburgh, where the average price was £295,000. In contrast, the lowest-priced area to purchase a property was Inverclyde, where the average price was £113,000.