As a landlord or property professional, it is important to maximise the potential of the property you are letting. As such, treating your portfolio like any other business is essential, from figuring out your profit margins to expanding your property empire. You must consider how the rental property is marketed as first impressions count for …
Read more >Patrick Harvie said in January he would seek to extend the cost of living legislation that includes Scotland’s rent cap and moratorium on evictions. Following the Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee’s scrutiny of the proposals to amend the Cost of Living Act, and a majority vote, the Scottish Parliament passed the amended regulations on …
Read more >Landlord safety certificates are essential if you want to rent out a property. Not only do you need to comply with Scottish and UK law, but you need to ensure the health and safety of your tenants. At first glance, the certification involved might seem daunting – after all, how many of us know a …
Read more >Personalising a property When the Scottish Government announced plans for ‘A New Deal for Tenants’ in late 2021, one of the proposals concerned giving tenants greater flexibility to personalise their homes and keep pets. In August 2022 the government published an analysis of responses to this Draft Rented Sector Strategy, which contained a variety of …
Read more >The rental market is changing and buy-to-let landlords have noticed the growing demand for eco-friendly properties. The green credentials of a property are increasingly important to tenants and when you’re making an investment decision, it should be taken into consideration. Higher rental yields With more people returning to city centres, there’s competition among tenants to …
Read more >When the Private Residential Tenancy (PRT) was introduced, one of the main concerns landlords had was the loss of section 33 – the wrongly described “no fault ground”. This created a desire for landlords, where they could, to preserve existing short-assured tenancies (SATs) beyond 1 December 2017 (the date after which no new short-assured tenancies …
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