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From 1 October, the Coronavirus Recovery and Reform Act abolishes mandatory grounds for repossession and the First Tier Tribunal will only evict where the members believe it to be reasonable in the circumstances. Given these significant changes, Scottish Housing News editor Kieran Findlay interviewe

Abolishing mandatory evictions is the subject of the latest episode of the SHN podcast. Co-host Jimmy Black predicts dramatic change will result ... A cynic might think that decades of rent controls, different rent controls, no rent controls and better tenancies have made little difference …

Scotland’s minister for tenants’ rights, Patrick Harvie, will give the keynote speech at Propertymark’s Scottish National Conference which takes place at the Glasgow Grosvenor Hotel on 15 September 2022. Mr Harvie is expected to give an update on the Scottish Government’s Ren

Propertymark is questioning whether the Scottish Government is adequately funding the First-tier Tribunal to cope with any extra demand placed on it by a tightening of the possessions process. The Coronavirus (Recovery and Reform) Bill will complete its passage through Holyrood this week and so far

Research conducted by Propertymark into the shrinking private rented sector has been raised in the Scottish Parliament during a debate on the implications of the Coronavirus (Recovery and Reform) Bill. Propertymark recently surveyed over 400 letting agents across the UK.

Propertymark has published new research which it claims to reveal the clearest indication of the rate at which the private rented market is shrinking.

Propertymark’s policy manager for the UK devolved nations Daryl McIntosh has joined the Scottish Parliament’s Cross-Party Group on Housing. The group’s membership includes MSPs and representatives from a range of organisations who share information and discuss matters relating to h

The Lomond Group of estate agencies spanning England and Scotland has unveiled that it has joined forces with Propertymark to deliver a ground-breaking training and development strategy. It has sealed a major new agreement designed to nurture the home-grown talent of its 1,000 people employed across

The tenant-centred approach being taken to further reform Scotland’s rented sector is overlooking the needs and rights of letting agents and their landlords, according to Propertymark. Its response to the consultation on the Scottish Government’s draft rented sector strategy, A New Deal

Propertymark has responded to the Scottish Government's announcement that communities and individuals will soon have access to information to enable them to find out who has a controlling interest in Scotland’s land. Earlier this week, the Scottish Government revealed that it is introducing a

Scotland’s minister for tenants’ rights Patrick Harvie has met ARLA Propertymark members as they discussed the prospect of rent controls. It was the last of three roundtables that will inform Propertymark’s response to the consultation on the Scottish Government’s proposed A

There is no clear evidence to support the need to change the way grounds for possession are applied in Scotland’s private rented sector, letting agents have told Scottish Government officials at a roundtable organised by Propertymark. The discussion was the first of three organised by the prof

Propertymark’s Daryl McIntosh has raised concerns that Scotland’s Additional Dwelling Supplement is "inhibiting and skewing investment" in the private rented sector. The Scottish Government has opened a consultation on its Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (LBTT), but Propertymark has s

The Scottish Government has announced that temporary changes to notice periods, introduced at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, will return to pre-pandemic terms - but Daryl Mcintosh, policy manager at Propertymark, has criticised the continuation of discretionary grounds for possession. The recen

Proposed reforms to the private rented sector are on the horizon for Scotland and upcoming sessions hosted by Propertymark will provide the opportunity to discuss some of the key proposals, their likely impacts on the sector, and highlight areas of concern to the listening ears of Scottish Governmen