Scottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie has defended Scotland’s rent cap saying that ‘many thousands’ of tenants have been helped and that predictions that landlords would leave the sector were ‘false’.
The tenants’…
The Scottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie has defended the government’s new Housing Bill, which includes plans for rent control areas.
He reassured landlords offering fair-priced, high-quality housing that they ‘have nothing to worry ab…
Tenants in Scotland are seeing big rent rises and the rent cap brought in by the SNP is being blamed – as rent rises elsewhere in the UK begin to fall.
According to the Daily Telegraph which used Zoopla data
The Scottish Government has published the results of a public consultation on its New Deal for Tenants proposals and found that, unsurprisingly, most tenants support rent controls – while landlords have hammered the idea.
The publication of the r…
Tenants in Scotland are being advised to know their renting rights as the emergency measures to protect them from rent hikes and evictions will end on 1 April.
The Scottish Government has launched an awareness campaign and the tenants’
Hi, I served notice to my tenant last year and she gave me 28 days notice and vacated. I wanted to sell the property and tried to sell it.
But since then, in last 6 months I didn’t get any offers.
Edinburgh has become the first city council in Scotland to declare a housing emergency, as it faces a ‘crisis’ in both the public and private renting sectors.
The declaration was made after a motion by the council’s housing convener
Average rents in Scotland for new tenancies have risen by double digits for the fourth consecutive quarter, reaching up to 19% year-on-year growth in some regions, research reveals.
The findings from Citylets point to the Cost of Living (Tenant Protect…
It has been a busy time for landlords with several stories that would normally make my blood run cold, but let’s start with a question: ‘Since when did a rent freeze mean no need to pay rent?’
I ask this
The Levelling Up secretary Michael Gove says there won’t be a rent freeze or a rent cap for landlords in England this year as part of the proposed Renters Reform Bill.
He was speaking on the ‘Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg’ show when he was asked about t…
I can’t say that I am surprised at the news that Labour Mayors, trade unions and rent activists are calling for a rent freeze – not on the grounds of saving tenants a few quid, but because landlords can afford it.
Emergency measures that saw a rent freeze and an evictions moratorium being introduced in Scotland will now see rent rises capped at 3% in the private sector from April, the Scottish Government has revealed.
The enforcement of evictions will still be p…
Where to begin? With the media buzzwords? With various organisations calling for a rent cap in England? Or the real reason a rent freeze is coming which was revealed on Thursday (which I will come to)?
Leaving aside that there is a perfect storm brewing
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