Scottish Housing Regulator

The Scottish Housing Regulator has published its plans to engage with RSLs and local authority landlords over the next 12 months following the completion of its annual risk assessment. This year the Regulator will engage 51 RSLs, fewer landlords than last year, 47 of which will be medium engagement.

Kay Blair The Scottish Housing Regulator has published two new procedures that will give landlords and individuals new ways to challenge regulatory decisions.

Ian Brennan Rising rent levels are a potential risk to housing associations if tenants’ incomes fail to increase at the same pace, the Scottish Housing Regulator has warned.

The Scottish Housing Regulator is offering tenants of social landlords the chance to get involved directly in the regulator’s work and bring a tenant perspective to its scrutiny of landlords’ services. This new initiative builds on the work of the regulator’s existing tenant assessors, who hav

The Scottish Housing Regulator has published an updated regulatory advice note on incidents of fraud against RSLs in Scotland. The advice note, which revises the previous notice from September 2012, alerts RSLs to recent fraudulent activity and highlights the importance of effective procedures to gu

Anne Jarvie Minister for housing and welfare, Margaret Burgess, has announced the reappointment of Anne Jarvie to the Scottish Housing Regulator board.

The Scottish Housing Regulator has used its statutory powers to appoint a manager to Ferguslie Park Housing Association and to make three statutory appointments to its governing body. The regulator has identified a number of serious weaknesses in Ferguslie Park’s governance and financial managemen

Social landlords in Scotland are performing well against the standards and outcomes in the Scottish Social Housing Charter and either maintaining or improving on the previous year, according to a new report. The second National Report on the Scottish Social Housing Charter from the Scottish Housing

Social landlords can now use a new online portal to apply to the Scottish Housing Regulator for consents or to report notifiable events, making the process quicker and easier. The new approach follows a period of testing with a group of landlords and replaces the existing process of email and corres

The Scottish Housing Regulator is to continue its statutory appointment of a manager to support Wellhouse Housing Association complete its governance and financial improvement plan and consolidate recent progress. A manager was appointed to the Easterhouse landlord in December 2014 after an independ

Kay Blair Scottish Housing Regulator chair, Kay Blair, will today tell the SFHA chairs’ conference about the importance of strong leadership in landlords.

Christine Macleod The Scottish Housing Regulator has published its latest report from its Governance Matters series which sets out what led to the near insolvency and ultimate rescue of a Registered Social Landlord (RSL).

Ian Brennan The Scottish Housing Regulator has published a refreshed version of its Recommended Practice on Business Planning for RSLs.

Kay Blair The Scottish Housing Regulator has highlighted to the Scottish Parliament how its work is shaped by direct tenant feedback.

The Scottish Housing Regulator has decided to end the appointment of the statutory manager at Muirhouse Housing Association. A revised regulation plan highlights that Muirhouse has made good progress in dealing with the issues that led to the regulator’s statutory intervention in December 2014.