At the end of February, the Scottish Government released the findings of the Independent Working Group on Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB), with several of the recommendations related to the issue of housing. The report highlighted the great variety in approach that different housing providers take in tackling ASB and that there is “a perception that small …
Read more >How can Propertymark help Scottish property agents? Property professional body Propertymark’s membership numbers for Scotland are 6 per cent higher now than they were one year ago. In February 2024, the figure stood at 714, and as of February 2025, that number jumped to 759. With property agents in Scotland experiencing an increase in legislation, …
Read more >Most tenancies go ahead without incident, tenants move in, pay their rent and look after the property. However, that is not always the case and where a tenant leaves a property sometimes the security deposit taken is not enough to pay for damage caused meaning a landlord has to consider whether or not to pursue …
Read more >The Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) (Saving Provision) (Scotland) Regulations 2025 Prior to the pandemic and cost of living crisis, rent increases were not subject to much attention in the Scottish PRS. This is because landlords rarely sought to increase the rent during a tenancy, often allowing the rent to remain the same for a …
Read more >As the Housing Bill continues to journey through Parliament, can consensus and common sense prevail in allowing tenants to decorate their homes as they see fit? A recent look around at the homes available for rent in Glasgow demonstrated a huge diversity of properties available, but also a huge variety of standards of properties in …
Read more >New Reporting Obligations Additional financial reporting obligations come into force for letting agents on 14 May 2025. These changes, form part of what will be extended anti-money laundering rules (AML), have been introduced by HM Treasury Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI). The changes mean that, as “relevant firms”, letting agents (who carry out “letting …
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