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Council representative hands over keys as tenants remain in their homes following a council housing purchase

Council buys homes to prevent evictions

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

3rd June 2026, 12 hours ago | 2

A council has approved plans to buy 26 homes from a private landlord to prevent tenants from being made homeless....

Couple unpacking boxes in new home with Scottish flag overlay

Record number of empty homes brought back into use in Scotland

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

2nd September 2025, 9 months ago | 0

More than 2,000 empty homes have been brought back into use in Scotland in the past year to help tackle...

Rising Scottish house prices illustrated with colorful homes, flag, and growth arrow

Scottish trade unions back tenants demand for rent controls

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

10th July 2025, 11 months ago | 3

Trade unions in Scotland have joined with tenant activist group Living Rent to demand that the Scottish government implements rent...

Model house under construction with Scottish flag and blueprints representing decline in Scotland’s BTR sector

Scottish housing crisis deepens as construction plummets

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

25th June 2025, 11 months ago | 1

Scotland’s housing sector has seen a major downturn, with an 11% reduction in all-sector housebuilding starts and a 4% drop...

MSP plans new rent controls on private landlords

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

8th April 2025, 1 year ago | 4

The Scottish Greens have unveiled proposals aimed at curbing the ability of landlords to raise rents on properties that fail...

Businessman tearing paper with Scottish flag and words “Rent Controls”

Scottish renters challenging rent rises rockets eightfold – Generation Rent

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

3rd April 2025, 1 year ago | 4

The number of renters challenging rent rises in Scotland when a temporary rent cap was in place rocketed, research reveals....

Woman carrying heavy tax burden up a ladder towards Scottish flag, symbolising landlord challenges

Propertymark slams Scotland’s BTL tax hike

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

27th February 2025, 1 year ago | 3

Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) have agreed the Scottish government’s £63 billion Budget for 2025-26. The minority SNP-led administration...

Tag: affordable housing Scotland

Council buys homes to prevent evictions

Record number of empty homes brought back into use in Scotland

Scottish trade unions back tenants demand for rent controls

Scottish housing crisis deepens as construction plummets

MSP plans new rent controls on private landlords

Scottish renters challenging rent rises rockets eightfold – Generation Rent

Propertymark slams Scotland’s BTL tax hike