Buy-to-let market update – May 2025
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 28/05/2025. Buy-to-let market update:...
SAL meets with Housing Convener of the City of Edinburgh Council
As well as supporting Scotland’s landlords and letting agents, SAL aims to promote the wider interests of the private rented sector in our local communities. Working with local authorities throughout Scotland helps us get the message across to those in power about...
HMRC advice on filing your Self Assessment tax return
Avoid those January blues by filing that Self Assessment tax return now instead HMRC has discovered that many people wait until the last minute to file their Self Assessment tax returns because they have busy lifestyles and are ‘putting it off.’ The deadline to file...
Final reminder: new sanctions duties (letting agents)
As we previously reported in our member enews in December and March, letting agents will have to comply with new financial sanctions requirements from 14 May 2025. From that date agents setting up a new tenancy will need to check that the landlord(s) and tenant(s) do...