We recently ran a basic poll on the Scottish Referendum with 500 tenants in Scotland’s main cities and it was interesting to see a strong link between voting choice and perceived prospects for home ownership. Around 2/3 of those voting Yes believe their prospects of home ownership would be better in an Independent Scotland and …
Read more >Citylets is delighted to confirm that we are a lead sponsor of the forthcoming Agency Business conference to be held in Glasgow on Thursday Sept 4th. Convened by Landlord Accreditation Scotland and SAL Council of Letting Agents (CLA) and now in its 4th year, this event is the main industry focus for Scottish letting agents. …
Read more >Congratulations to Rentlocally and Murray & Currie, both Edinburgh letting agents and long standing Citylets clients, who took gold and silver in the Scottish Letting Agent of the Year category at the ESTAs in London last Friday. https://rentlocally.co.uk/rentlocally-2014-scottish-letting-agent-year/ The ESTAs, now in their 11th year, are widely recognized in the property industry as a leading …
Read more >The latest Citylets Quarterly Report (Q3 2013) made headline news yesterday: We revealed that prices for renting in Aberdeen have soared to record levels as a shortage of properties has fuelled a frenzied demand by eager tenants. Rental prices have broken the four figure barrier for the first time with average monthly rents reaching £1,002 …
Read more >Q3 (July-September) is traditionally the busiest time of the year for the lettings market and often sees new records set for visitor traffic to Citylets. 2013 was no exception with traffic reaching over 1.1million over the quarter, up 22% on 2012, and August recording our highest ever monthly total of 405k site visits (Source: Google …
Read more >With the lack of new housing supply becoming such a big issue (https://www.insidehousing.co.uk/missing-millions/6527782.blog or here https://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/affordable_housing/) Citylets felt it was important to explore the latest statistics from Scottish Government Housing Division to try and understand if this phenomenon was universal across Scotland. In previous blog posts we have examined the national statistics but the interactive …
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