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Edinburgh.
Where the housing market sits.

Scotland's capital — distinct Scottish property law, festival-season rental dynamics, and finance-sector payroll concentration.

Updated 5m ago Latest data: 2026-04-01 HM Land Registry City of Edinburgh · BoE · ONS ASHE
City gauges
Affordability
2
Extreme — bottom decile
0 · Most expensive100 · Most affordable
Median price (GBP)
£295,204
City-level median home price, source-specific (see below).
Median household income (GBP)
£42,000
Most recent published metro-level median household income.
Mortgage payment burden
39.4%
30-year amortized payment at current UK rates as a share of median household income.
Momentum
30
Stressed — lower quartile
0 · Cooling/declining100 · Running hot
Year-over-year price change
+2.0%
Latest available city-level YoY HPI delta.
Months of supply
Active listings divided by trailing-three-month sales pace.
Days on market
Median days from listing to under contract.
Regime · What the gauges say together

Expensive stagnation

Unaffordable and prices not rising in real terms.

Unaffordable, but no longer rising.

Context
Real price growth (3-mo annualized)-2.25%
Headline mortgage rate5.75%
CPI year-over-year2.97%
Leading equity indicators (homebuilders/REITs)-12.8% avg vs 200-day MA · breadth 0/4
Data sources for Edinburgh
  • Registers of Scotland data
  • Rightmove Scotland data
  • Nationwide Scotland HPI

Full source documentation on /data-sources.

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