IS YOUR LETTING AGENT LEGAL?

IS YOUR LETTING AGENT LEGAL?

On the night of 1st October 2018 new legislation came into force in the Scottish Residential Letting market.  It was legislation which affected every letting agency and many private individuals who manage property rentals for friends and families and yet in a recent...
WILL BREXIT AFFECT THE SELF-BUILD MARKET?

WILL BREXIT AFFECT THE SELF-BUILD MARKET?

BREXIT – New to our language in the last few years but unfortunately no news programme can go by without umpteen references to the will we won’t we discussions about achieving a smooth, hard or car crash of a BREXIT.  Whilst most of the discussions on the news is...
Lack of Supply Driving Scottish House Prices

Lack of Supply Driving Scottish House Prices

Average house prices in Scotland rose by 4.8% in the year to April 2018, driven by a continued drop in buyer activity. The latest publication of the monthly UK House Price Index (UK HPI) shows that the average price of a property in Scotland in June 2018 was £150,472...
A Different Approach Needed For Our Housing Needs

A Different Approach Needed For Our Housing Needs

Scotland is facing a growing challenge to meet demand for social housing with circa 160,000 households on local authority and other RSL waiting lists.  Of these 40,000 families believe that they have no other way of having a roof over their head – that they will never...
Why We Need A Strong Rental Sector

Why We Need A Strong Rental Sector

The housing aspirations of first time buyers have been seen as crucial for the overall health of the housing market, particularly as the household formation rates of first time buyers and to a certain extent tenure choices can be linked to housing costs. First time...