What proportion of the affordable home ownership properties identified in the Affordable Housing Supply Programme has been taken up by (a) …

The Open Market shared Equity Scheme (OMSE) and New Supply Shared Equity Scheme (NSSE) both fall under the Scottish Government’s Low Cost Initiative for First Time Buyers (LIFT) and provide support for affordable home ownership through the Scottish Government’s Affordable Housing Supply Programme (AHSP).
The figures provided in this answer are based on the information provided in sales log forms which are completed and returned on a voluntary basis by homeowners who have purchased their property with assistance from one of the above shared equity schemes. The overall response rate for the OMSE and NSSE sales log forms is around 78%; however, this varies by local authority area, and in addition some forms can contain missing values for particular questions, and so the figures provided should therefore be treated as approximate estimates only.
The following table shows that during 2016/17, the first financial year of the current 5 year AHSP, at a Scotland level around 98% of properties purchased through the Open Market Shared Equity and New Supply Shared Equity schemes were by first time buyers and less than 1% were by those over 60 years old. Both schemes are targeted at first time buyers and priority groups.
Estimated proportions of sales for (a) first-time buyers and (b) people over 60, based on Open Market shared Equity Scheme (OMSE) and New Supply Shared Equity Scheme (NSSE) log forms received for the year 2016-17

% first time buyer
% over 60
Aberdeen
100%
<1%
Aberdeenshire
100%
<1%
Angus
100%
<1%
Argyll & Bute
100%
<1%
Clackmannanshire
100%
<1%
Dumfries & Galloway
100%
<1%
Dundee
100%
4%
East Ayrshire
100%
<1%
East Dunbartonshire
100%
<1%
East Lothian
97%
<1%
East Renfrewshire
100%
<1%
Edinburgh
100%
<1%
Falkirk
100%
2%
Fife
97%
<1%
Glasgow
100%
<1%
Highland
79%
11%
Inverclyde
n/a
n/a
Midlothian
99%
<1%
Moray
100%
<1%
North Ayrshire
100%
<1%
North Lanarkshire
100%
<1%
Orkney
67%
<1%
Perth & Kinross
99%
<1%
Renfrewshire
100%
<1%
Scottish Borders
96%
<1%
Shetland
n/a
n/a
South Ayrshire
100%
<1%
South Lanarkshire
94%
<1%
Stirling
96%
<1%
West Dunbartonshire
100%
<1%
West Lothian
98%
1%
Western Isles
n/a
n/a
Scotland
98%
<1%
Source: OMSE and NSSE sales log forms. The first time buyer and age information is based on the information provided about the first named purchaser in each sales log form