Writer Samuel Johnson once said that the next best thing to knowing something, was knowing where to find it. Of course, in the 18th century when he first mentioned this there was no Google to act as that instant fountain of all knowledge. Perhaps the nearest thing to it was Johnson’s own dictionary of the …
Read more >Private rents continue to rise despite the Scottish Government pushing through and now extending emergency legislation to freeze them for sitting tenants. However, an extraordinary recent move to increase investors’ additional dwellings supplement (ADS) payments of land and buildings transaction tax (LBTT) to an immense 6% seems wildly counterproductive to bringing down advertised rents for …
Read more >How to make a property unique? Property markets are fickle beings. They’re unpredictable and changeable. But regardless of where they go, the real estate world has to keep going. Sometimes when there are too many properties available, landlords may want to look for ways to help their property stand out from the rest so they …
Read more >The property market in Edinburgh, the Lothians, Fife and the Borders continued strong between October and December 2022, with high interest in home buying and selling, despite the recent political and economic challenges, such as rising interest rates, deepening cost of living crisis and increasing energy bills. Although a slight cooling of the market was …
Read more >It’s essential that landlords and property managers work with tenants to protect rental properties in winter. The snow and freezing temperatures arrived with a bang in December, wreaking havoc in homes across Scotland as pipes froze and burst, boilers broke down and people were left without heating. So, here are ten top tips to help …
Read more >The Scottish Government has announced that it will not extend the rent freeze introduced by the Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) (Scotland) Act 2022 (the Act) last October on social housing after March 2023. This will mean that councils and RSL’s will be able to set their own rent levels from April. Social landlord representative …
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