Morag
Morag
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Registered with Property118.com
9th January 2017
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3rd April 2025, 1 year ago
A survey of members just released by the Scottish Association of Landlords (SAL), found that annual rent increases are becoming much more prevalent since controls were introduced. A survey in December 22 revealed that pre rent controls, only 8% of...
Read More →27th March 2025, 1 year ago
In Scotland, I never felt the need to increase rents during tenancies. Indeed, even between tenancies, there was rarely the opportunity to increase as market rents remained fairly stable from when we started in 2005 until maybe 2015 or so....
Read More →5th March 2025, 1 year ago
So, as Robin says, the flat owners end up paying for works in the end, just as tenants end up paying for works that landlords are compelled to do. The difference is that landlords are delivering a service in return...
Read More →4th March 2025, 1 year ago
Em, I think this was enacted in Scotland over 20 years ago, with the Abolition of Feudal Tenure (Scotland) Act 2000. The Tenements (Scotland) Act 2004 created a legal framework for the avoidance of disputes in management and funding of...
Read More →19th February 2025, 1 year ago
Since 2017 it has been compulsory to provide tenants with a 52 page Easy Read Notes document, in addition to the similarly sized Private Residential Tenancy Agreement, so they know all about their rights and obligations, and where to seek...
Read More →15th November 2024, 1 year ago
We can be quite certain that their tenants will have been very carefully vetted and will have agreed in advance that they'll leave when asked. Exceptions will be made by the Tribunal for any discrepancies in compliance or paperwork. After...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Craig Vaughan at 01/10/2024 - 17:01
Reply to the comment left by Craig Vaughan at 01/10/2024 - 17:01I don't understand what is self righteous about trying to stop someone feeling they need to pay off an exploitative parasite to get them out of their home, when...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Steve Rose at 01/10/2024 - 12:09
Reply to the comment left by Steve Rose at 01/10/2024 - 12:09According to Shelter, in Scotland she doesn't need to go to court just give notice, but I'm sure you're correct about most of the rest of your comment. In...
Read More →1st October 2024, 2 years ago
https://scotland.shelter.org.uk/housing_advice/eviction/resident_landlord This is a link to Shelter's advice to tenants being evicted, in Scotland. Although their aim is always to help tenants avoid eviction however justified, lodgers don't have nearly as many rights as tenants, and you should give her...
Read More →19th March 2024, 2 years ago
At least this is one outrageous legislative lunacy that the Scottish Government haven't seen fit to introduce here. We've got enough to contend with.
Read More →30th January 2024, 2 years ago
I think there is guidance on this on Scotgov website, under the legislation on the recently introduced Private Residential Tenancy. As I recall, wanting to sell is a permitted ground for eviction, but you do have to attempt to market...
Read More →13th November 2023, 2 years ago
It beggars belief how little insight some politicians have to how the PRS, or any business for that matter, operates. Furthermore, I'm convinced that many politicians, and the public as a whole, actually think that "offsetting things against tax" means...
Read More →8th November 2023, 2 years ago
Regardless what the law states, I fundamentally disagree with the simplistic interpretation of HMO as three or more people from two or more households, as meaning three or more people from two or more related families. As far as I'm...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Dylan Morris at 07/11/2023 - 10:08
Reply to the comment left by Dylan Morris at 07/11/2023 - 10:08Not yet, but they're considering it. It's one of the questions in the recent totally skewed "consultation" that was carried out. There were no answers for landlords to choose,...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Morag Shaw at 03/11/2023 - 19:00
And no doubt the EMERGENCY ACTION PLAN they come up with will comprise of more landlord bashing.
Read More →6th November 2023, 2 years ago
She (Angela Rayner) said: “A toxic mix of rising rents and a failure to end no-fault evictions are hitting vulnerable people, yet after years of delay the Tories still haven’t kept their promises to act.” When are they ever going...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Lorna Prince at 03/11/2023 - 11:26
"The council will now work with council officers, third sector partners, external organisations such as SHAPE, Shelter Scotland and Cyrenians, to establish a Housing Emergency Action Plan." This says all we need to know. Input from everyone except the one...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Mark Alexander at 30/10/2023 - 11:08
Reply to the comment left by Mark Alexander - Founder of Property118 at 30/10/2023 - 11:08My remaining flats are in Springburn, North Glasgow, about 25 mins walk from the heart of the City Centre. Even the best performing flats and...
Read More →30th October 2023, 2 years ago
Just wondering, do I own the only properties in the UK that were selling around £75k in 2006 and are still selling around £75k in 2023?
Read More →26th October 2023, 2 years ago
I live in Scotland, and occasionally look at auction properties, but I've noticed that the auction house buyer fees have jumped ridiculously from 1 or 2 percent to 4 percent, subject to a minimum charge around £6k, vastly reducing any...
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