New Build Completions in Scotland – All Is Revealed

July 18, 2013

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 …

PRS Trends and Strategies

June 21, 2013

As we highlighted in last week’s blog we are currently in a phase where the number of households formations in Scotland is growing but the supply of new build completions in the private and social sectors is at an all time low while housing sales transactions are half what they were 5 years ago. In …

Expansion of the Private Rental Sector in Scotland

June 12, 2013

With the increasing recognition of the significance of the Private Rented Sector (PRS) we thought it would be useful to explore some of the statistics that show the extent of the growth of the PRS in Scotland over the last 20 years or so. We know from the Scottish Household Survey (SHS) that the estimated …

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Citylets Adds to Research Team as PRS Comes Under Further Scrutiny

March 6, 2013

Citylets Adds to Its Research Team In yet another change for the lettings industry in the UK, the Advertising Standards Authority has now ruled that Letting Agents cannot advertise property to rent without full disclosure of their fees. Whilst this may not affect Scottish Letting Agents with an outright ban imposed last year – a …