In the current economic climate, it’s probably not unreasonable for a tenant who is renting their home in the private market to think that Government controls on how much rent they should pay is a good thing: capped rents equal improved affordability. But it’s a more complex issue than that. Rents have been rising over …
Read more >Following the commencement of the war in Ukraine, the UK Government announced the Homes for Ukraine scheme which offered compensation of £350 per month to anyone offering a room to a Ukrainian family seeking to escape the war. Whilst there is a clear desire to help, there are difficulties and problems should landlords or even …
Read more >The beginning On Monday 2nd July 2012, Scotland’s three government approved tenancy deposit protection schemes began operating. The schemes were established to accommodate legislation introduced the previous year, the Tenancy Deposit Schemes (Scotland) Regulations 2011. 2nd July 2022 is therefore the milestone date for 10 years of tenancy deposit protection in Scotland. A recap of …
Read more >Episode 57 of LetsTalk hears a tenant’s perspective of renting as a family in Scotland. Principal teacher at an independent school in Edinburgh, Nick Wise, talks openly about her views of the current rental market in the city, from the initial difficulty in trying to secure a family home to suffering a financial scam, as …
Read more >Security is an important topic for all types of business including those operating in the property sector. Here, security is traditionally associated with protecting homes from physical damage and break-ins, through increasingly sophisticated intruder alarm and home security systems. However, in our digital age, estate and letting agents are fast becoming aware of the urgent …
Read more >Suffering from slow broadband? If you’ve already tried restarting your router and nothing has changed, there is a good chance that there is either a fault on the line or the router has been set up incorrectly. The alternative is that your connection speed is simply not fast enough for the way you use the …
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