Winter is in full swing and as the rain is covering the majority of Scotland, many homeowners will be feeling the pressure when emergency repairs start popping up in their tenements. With rainy weather imminent, many people will be looking for advice on emergency, common repairs. The common repairs process set out by the TMS …
Read more >Episode 66 of Lets Talk features Chief Executive of the Scottish Association of Landlords, John Blackwood, and Head of Policy and Campaigns of Propertymark, Timothy Douglas, discussing the Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) (Scotland) Act 2022 which introduced a rent freeze in social and private rented housing and a moratorium on evictions. Following the announcement …
Read more >In the last quarter of 2022, pressures on property supply in the private rented sector continued driving growth in average rents in Scotland for new tenancies at an unprecedented rate amid widespread industry condemnation of the new legislation and general asymmetry of approach relative to the social rented sector. The introduction of the Cost of …
Read more >Writer Samuel Johnson once said that the next best thing to knowing something, was knowing where to find it. Of course, in the 18th century when he first mentioned this there was no Google to act as that instant fountain of all knowledge. Perhaps the nearest thing to it was Johnson’s own dictionary of the …
Read more >On 12 January 2023, the Scottish Government published their First Report to the Scottish Parliament on the Cost of Living (Tenant Protection)(Scotland) Act 2022 (the Act). The Act came into force on 28 October 2022 and introduced the rent freeze and moratorium on evictions that had been announced earlier on 6 September 2022, affecting both …
Read more >Private rents continue to rise despite the Scottish Government pushing through and now extending emergency legislation to freeze them for sitting tenants. However, an extraordinary recent move to increase investors’ additional dwellings supplement (ADS) payments of land and buildings transaction tax (LBTT) to an immense 6% seems wildly counterproductive to bringing down advertised rents for …
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