The Scottish Government has released their industry consultation, ‘A New Deal For Tenants’, detailing Scotland’s vision to place a stronger tenant and community focus at the forefront of the nation’s housing policy. This additional safeguarding of tenants’ rights is intended to complement the existing ‘Housing to 2040’ strategy for low cost and low carbon housing. …
Read more >When trying to attract and secure reliable tenants, is it best to present a flat as furnished or unfurnished? Both, furnished and unfurnished accommodation, play an important part in the lettings market and there are no right or wrong answers to the question. Certainly, landlords are under no legal obligation to furnish their properties. The …
Read more >Despite the Coronavirus pandemic affecting much of regular life over the past few years, one thing that has remained consistent is the numbers of students attending university and other higher education institutions. In fact, in the last academic year (2020/21), there were over 2.6 million students in higher education across the UK, many of whom …
Read more >The Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982 (Licensing of Short-term Lets) Order 2021 (the Order) came into force on 1 March 2022. Its purpose is to regulate the short-term letting sector by introducing a national licensing scheme to be operated by local authorities backed up by criminal sanctions. In addition, local authorities will be able to …
Read more >The Scottish Government’s New Deal for Tenants is, to coin a well-known advertising slogan, ‘exactly what it says on the tin.’ The 108-page document contains the word ‘tenants’ 289 times — over 100 times more than ‘landlords’ (165 times). ‘Tenants’ rights’ outnumbers references to ‘landlords’ rights’ by nine to one. So what, some might say. …
Read more >Partner at Bannatyne, Kirkwood, France & Co (BKF & Co) Rory Cowan, features on episode 55 of Lets Talk. Rory talks about the history of the company and the services that they specialise in, as well as what led him to focus on practising property law. With all the changes in private rented sector legislation …
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