Current status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 20 September 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-09839 by Tom Arthur on 11 August 2022, what information it holds on the annual totals of ownership changes of land over 3,000 hectares broken down by (a) sales and (b) transfers and succession.
This is a question for the Keeper of the Registers of Scotland (RoS).
Following on from the previous question, figures are provided for the last 10 years, for properties over 3000 ha.
Transfers are divided between sales/leases for the full monetary market value of the property, versus transfers for discounted or non-monetary consideration (e.g. succession).
Year | Full market value transfers (a) | Other transfers (b) | Total transfers |
2012 | 5 | 8 | 13 |
2013 | 12 | 21 | 33 |
2014 | 10 | 12 | 22 |
2015 | 17 | 25 | 42 |
2016 | 20 | 50 | 70 |
2017 | 21 | 77 | 98 |
2018 | 7 | 93 | 100 |
2019 | 10 | 106 | 116 |
2020 | 9 | 78 | 87 |
2021 | 3 | 97 | 100 |
2022 | 1 | 53 | 54 |
The total figure for 2022 has increased from 53 to 54 since question S6W-09839 was answered, reflecting new activity since the previous data extraction on 22 July.
Figures are current on 26 August 2022.