With the Scottish Parliament currently considering a Housing Bill which includes a provision to convert assured/short assured tenancies into PRTs (private residential tenancies), how many tenancies would this affect? SAL has looked at tribunal data on eviction...
By Doug Hall, Director, 3mc Welcome to ‘Buy-to-Let Market’, a column aimed at providing you with recent criteria and product updates within the buy-to-let (BTL) lending markets. The information within this article is correct as at 26/09/2024. BTL market update: BM...
Over the past five years research consultancy Indigo House has been conducting independent research into the Scottish private rented sector (PRS), commissioned by the charitable Nationwide Foundation The project, termed “Rent Better”, sought to understand the impact...
Important information for properties with radio teleswitch (RTS) electricity meters If you own or manage a property which has an RTS electricity meter, there is action that you or your tenants must take before 30 June 2025 to ensure that the heating and hot water...
There is much in the news this week about the UK government publishing draft legislation, the Renters’ Rights Bill, to end “no-fault” evictions, give tenants the right to have a pet, ban rental bidding wars, require repairs to be carried out within a specified...
A member with an HMO property in Edinburgh has for some years been trying to find a way of recycling old fire extinguishers from his HMO property, having found that the cost to replace them is less than the cost to have an annual service carried out. He has shared...