The housing market has seen an unprecedented change over the past couple of years, but certain indicators now seem to be pointing towards a return to more traditional levels of activity. Rental return A look at average rents makes this point clearly, with rental growth returning to the market after a period of weakening during …
Read more >Challenging times Each year the first day of April sees news outlets and companies gently tease their readers and social media followers with outlandish stories designed to generate first gasps of surprise and then chuckles as the realisation that it is April Fool’s Day sets in. There wasn’t a huge amount to laugh at on …
Read more >The Scottish Government has approved new legislation under which all short term let properties must have a license by July 2024. In line with the new regulations, all local authorities will have until 1st October 2022 to establish a short term lets licensing scheme, and existing hosts and operators will be required to apply for …
Read more >Episode 48 features directors and founders of Edinburgh based letting agency Clan Gordon. Brothers, Jonathan and Andrew Gordon established the agency in 2007 and review how they navigated through the pandemic, ensuring no tenant evictions or staff redundancies; indeed, headcount grew over the period. They also describe how they invested in the company and their …
Read more >One of the temporary measures introduced by the Scottish Government in response to the Coronavirus pandemic was pre-action requirements that landlords and agents in the private rented sector must comply with prior to seeking repossession of a property for rent arrears that have occurred during the Covid-19 period. The Rent Arrears Pre-Action Requirements (Coronavirus) (Scotland) …
Read more >Following an award of the first Wrongful Termination Order earlier this month, the Scottish Labour Party is calling on the government to increase protection for private tenants from unfair evictions. According to Labour, the recent case before the First-tier Tribunal in which the tenant was evicted on wrongful grounds, has exposed inadequate tenant’s protection under …
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