Buy-to-let Property News
More new home completions in Scotland last year
There was a 10 per cent increase in the number of new home completions in Scotland over the year to September 2022, according to quarterly…
scotland
Buy-to-let Property News
Scottish landlords have one year to meet revised Repairing Standard
From 1 March next year all private rented properties in Scotland will be required to have central heating, a kitchen with adequate space and facilities…
Buy-to-let Property News
Scotland ups affordable housing fund
An additional £25m has been promised to finance more affordable homes for Scotland. The money will go into the Charitable Bond programme which provides loans…
Buy-to-let Property News
Scotland proposes changes to ADS
Homeowners moving house in Scotland are set to be given longer to sell their existing home before becoming ineligible to reclaim any Additional Dwelling Supplement…
Buy-to-let Property News
More new house completions in Scotland, but starts are down
Almost 2,000 more new homes were built in Scotland in twelve months ended June 2022 than in the previous year, the latest quarterly statistics from…
Buy-to-let Property News
Official – Scotland’s rents have been rising slower than inflation
Emergency rent freeze official statistics released by the Scottish Government show that landlords have not been profiteering when it comes to rent increases. Against an…
Buy-to-let Property News
Welsh Land Transaction Tax and Scottish tenant protection
As from last week the starting threshold for paying of main residential rates of Land Transaction Tax, the Welsh equivalent of stamp duty, has increased…
Buy-to-let Property News
Scotland to freeze rents and ban evictions
Scotland is to introduce emergency legislation freezing rents and imposing a moratorium on evictions until at least 31 March 2023. So said Scotland’s First Minister…
Buy-to-let Property News
Scotland backs tighter holiday let controls
Edinburgh is to become Scotland’s first ‘Short-Term Let Control Area’, after the Scottish Government approved the City Council’s proposed tightening of holiday let planning rules….
Buy-to-let Property News
Scottish landlords hit out against hostile environment
There could soon be 36,000 fewer homes available to rent in Scotland, the Scottish Association of Landlords has warned. Damaging rhetoric from the Scottish Government…
Buy-to-let Property News
Scotland gets short-term let licensing law
All short-term lets in Scotland will require a licence to operate under a new law approved by the Scottish Parliament this week. Local authorities will…
Buy-to-let Property News
Scotland aims for 70,000 more social rents by 2032
Scotland is to put £3.2bn over the next five years into providing affordable homes. The money will be provided as grant funding and represents an…
Buy-to-let Property News
Scotland’s property prices hit record levels
House prices in Scotland are rising at the fastest for a decade, Savills has reported. The estate agent puts the rises down to a COVID-19-led…
Buy-to-let Property News
Scots landlords welcome extra tenant support
Announcement in Scotland of a £10m grant fund to support tenants struggling to pay their rent as a direct result of COVID-19 has brought with…
Buy-to-let Property News
Scots Government publishes housing vision
‘Tackling high rents in the private sector’, is one of the key priorities of a 20-year housing strategy set out by the Scottish Government in…
