With lighter nights approaching and summer holidays around the corner, you may be considering purchasing a property to be used as a short term or holiday let. Read on to find out the pros and cons of holiday lets. Pros Flexibility If you purchase a property to be used as a holiday let you and …
Read more >From the start of October, the Scottish Government required all of its local authorities to have a short-term lets licensing scheme in place. The aim being to ensure short-term lets are safe and that concerns from people living in some areas of the country about their impact on housing supply in those local communities, are …
Read more >The significant increase in short-term holiday lets within Edinburgh and throughout the country has led to the Scottish Government legislating as a means to control this element of the rental market under the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982 (Licensing of Short-term lets) Order 2022. While the Licensing Order was brought into force in March 2022 …
Read more >Legislation intended to better regulate short term lets through a licensing scheme, has been withdrawn by the Scottish Government. The proposed measures, including new powers for local councils to implement short term let control areas where planning permission was required before homes could be let, were developed in response to concerns about negative impact of …
Read more >Fierce competition and conflict between traditional hotels and short term let online platforms such as Airbnb is old news, but this ongoing battle has now been given a whole new dimension. The Hotel Association of New York City has recently launched an ad campaign against Airbnb, suggesting possible links with terrorism. The 30-second video contains …
Read more >Short term lets seem to be flooding Edinburgh city centre and it is estimated that around half of the homes in the EH1 postcodes will be holiday lets by 2050 – a new study by the Scottish Green Party has revealed. The scale of this growing trend is causing concerns and calls for more regulation …
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