Our mission
Empowering private renting
Enabling Scotland’s landlords and letting agents to provide the best rented homes.
To deliver the vision of a good home for everyone, the rights of landlords must be central to policy development in order to provide the best possible homes. By recognising the important role landlords play in meeting housing need, landlords will take pride in ensuring the homes they provide are well-managed, well-maintained and sustainable for the future.
All landlords and letting agents will recognise that they are providing homes and will understand and comply with all the regulation that is in place to support safe and secure homes and tenancies. SAL’s mission is to ensure that every landlord is able and willing to manage and maintain their properties well, with no exceptions. Whether this is by planned maintenance, energy efficiency measures, fostering good relationships with tenants, quick resolution of problems or any element of best practice, SAL members will be signed up to deliver this and to recognise their role in providing good homes.
We will deliver this with our partner/sister organisation, LAS.
Setting the standard for private rented homes.
LAS will ensure that all landlords and letting agents in the PRS are able to deliver excellence. Well-managed, well-maintained and sustainable homes are achieved through knowledge, training and development for landlords in best practice. We want all landlords to be accredited.
We have made huge progress in the delivery of our mission with a new tenancy and tribunal service, increasing standards and letting agent registration, but there is still much to do in ensuring enforcement of standards and eradicating bad practice.
We will work to ensure that our members and all landlords and letting agents aspire to excellence and have the means to deliver it through our support, advice, training and education.
I cannot overstate how much I appreciate the outstanding help and support provided by the team at SAL.
As a landlord, I found myself in an extremely difficult situation — a tenant in significant rent arrears, a failed eviction attempt through a solicitor, and no remaining finances to continue with legal representation. It was at that point I was directed towards SAL, and from the very first interaction the team were exceptional. Their knowledge, guidance, and willingness to support me through every step of the process was invaluable.
Within my first year of membership, the matter was fully and successfully resolved — something I genuinely did not think was possible at the time.
If you are a landlord in Scotland and you are not already a member of SAL, I would strongly urge you to join. The professionalism and dedication of the team alone makes the annual membership worth every penny.
Being a member of SAL allows me to keep up to speed with changes in the industry at a critical time, network and gain support from my peers and influence the way our industry operates.