A first attempt to regulate Airbnb-style short lets through licensing has been withdrawn. The SNP-led Scottish Government had drawn up a licensing...
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22 February 2021
From: Breaking News

Lomond - which recently merged with Linley & Simpson - has acquired four smaller independent agencies in three different cities. Two of...
28 January 2021
From: Breaking News

A new lettings market snapshot from Rightmove suggests that asking rents in some major city centres have seen annual falls up...
27 January 2021
From: Breaking News

Lomond Capital, which owns Scottish lettings and estate agents Braemore and Stonehouse, is to merge with Yorkshire firm Linley & Simpson. The...
05 January 2021
From: Breaking News

A council in Scotland is set to be the first to introduce regulations for Airbnb and similar platforms in the short lets sector. ARLA...
11 December 2020
From: Breaking News

Activists are attempting to build rent strike momentum amongst students who rent property across the country. ‘Rent Strike” is a national network...
08 December 2020
From: Breaking News

A family-run agency that describes itself as “plucky” has rebranded and moved to larger premises in one of the UK’s most...
15 October 2020
From: Breaking News

Scottish agency Tay Letting is set for expansion into Dundee and its surrounding areas with the acquisition of Lickley Proctor Lettings. Just...
09 September 2020
From: Breaking News

A property management firm says there’s been a big surge in rentals with the majority of deals being completed using virtual...
19 August 2020
From: Breaking News

A new student accommodation property platform has been launched which aims to deliberately by-pass letting agents. Housemates is for students, landlords and...
18 August 2020
From: Breaking News

A series of fake scams allegedly advertising apartments to rent have appeared on Zoopla and other property websites. The Edinburgh Live news...
13 August 2020
From: Breaking News

New data from Zoopla shows that a two-speed rental market is operating across the UK, with London in particular hitting major...
05 August 2020
From: Breaking News

Room rents in the capital have dropped seven per cent in the past three months as the Coronavirus crisis saps demand...
16 July 2020
From: Breaking News

A council with a large number of short let properties within its boundaries is urging owners to convert them to traditional...
07 July 2020
From: Breaking News

The number of new rental listings reaching the market has soared as much as 44 per cent in some areas following...
20 May 2020
From: Breaking News

One of the country’s largest lettings agencies is to lose 17 jobs out of 100 in what the company founder calls...
19 May 2020
From: Breaking News

A digital property management platform has gone live with a network of local agents covering some of the UK’s key cities. Apropos has recruited a network of what it calls...
13 May 2020
From: Breaking News

Rental demand has dropped significantly across London and other major UK cities as a result of the pandemic. When comparing current levels...
23 April 2020
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency in one of the most competitive markets in Britain says it’s enjoyed a record year winning landlords from...
05 February 2020
From: Breaking News

Nearly half a million properties could be removed from the long-term lettings market as disenchanted landlords move to short-lets. A survey by...
31 January 2020
From: Breaking News

A leading agency in a part of the UK where local government wants to clamp down on the spread of Airbnb...
17 January 2020
From: Breaking News

A leading property industry figure says Airbnb is attempting to persuade traditional buy to let landlords into going down the short-let...
13 January 2020
From: Breaking News

A mortgage lender’s new Buy to Let City Tracker tool has calculated the best cities in the UK for buy to...
10 December 2019
From: Breaking News

Scottish legal firm Gilson Gray has shaped up Coulters Letting, meaning it now enters the residential rentals sector for the first...
03 December 2019
From: Breaking News

A short lets firm that describes itself as an “Airbnb management service” is launching an advertising campaign to woo landlords away...
29 November 2019
From: Breaking News

High-profile property management firm DJ Alexander is set for expansion following a £7m investment from Santander. The capital funding package will be...
22 November 2019
From: Breaking News

The property management platform Apropos, scheduled to launch early next year, says it’s signed up 25 business partners ahead of schedule. The...
15 November 2019
From: Breaking News

The growing chorus of calls to professionalise the short lets sector has won influential backing from a senior PropTech entrepreneur. Neil Cobbold...
13 November 2019
From: Breaking News

The Scottish Government says it’s looking at whether to regulate Airbnb and other short let activities after a consultation found widespread...
04 November 2019
From: Breaking News

There’s a warning from a leading agent that the unregulated proliferation of Airbnb-style short lets will lead to mainstream rent rises...
30 September 2019
From: Breaking News

Letting agents are to be offered free training in managing tenancy deposits and disputes if they operate in Edinburgh. In the last...
27 September 2019
From: Breaking News

A huge US property investment firm valued at over $10 billion is entering the UK’s purpose build student accommodation sector. Chicago-based CA...
25 September 2019
From: Breaking News

A pioneering lettings agency that allocates second and subsequent year students with private sector and university-owned homes has delivered its best...
19 August 2019
From: Breaking News

A lettings group says the high-profile struggle performers at the Edinburgh Fringe now face to find affordable short-term accommodation was entirely...
08 August 2019
From: Breaking News

A platform which works with independent lettings agents and Build To Rent operators says it is linking them to provide mutual...
25 July 2019
From: Breaking News

The number of landlords admitting to not paying tax has soared in the past year, according to new data. During 2018/2019, 16,110...
08 July 2019
From: Breaking News

A senior Labour politician has claimed that there is a city in the UK where two out of every 13 residential...
25 June 2019
From: Breaking News

A slow rental market in London is weighing down on growth across the rest of the UK, according to the latest...
10 May 2019
From: Breaking News

A rental market expert is urging landlords to be cautious when considering to use short-term lets websites such as Airbnb to...
08 May 2019
From: Breaking News

New data looking specifically at room rental rates suggest that across the UK rents rose by an average three per cent...
03 May 2019
From: Breaking News

Savills has launched a new residential lettings service in one of the country’s most successful buy to let and investment locations...
11 April 2019
From: Breaking News

The rapid growth of Airbnb-style short lets could lead to the loss of private rented homes and displacement of long-term residents...
09 April 2019
From: Breaking News

Rental growth remains in positive territory - just - but on average it’s still well below the general level of inflation...
09 April 2019
From: Breaking News

A programme of nine new educational workshops takes place next month, some of which target new agents with little or no experience of deposits...
06 March 2019
From: Breaking News

A new study suggests that rental properties now account for 40 per cent of the available housing stock. Looking at the final...
21 January 2019
From: Breaking News

Edinburgh has been identified as having the UK’s fastest growing rents with the average annual sum rising by 4.63 per cent...
27 December 2018
From: Breaking News

LAT recently carried a story of a lettings agency diversifying by renting out parking spaces for landlord owners - and now...
21 November 2018
From: Breaking News

The Scottish private lettings sector is on the march again with the latest index suggesting a 2.2 per cent annual rise,...
07 November 2018
From: Breaking News

New figures show that the Scottish rental market returned to growth in September with average growth of 0.1 per cent across...
31 October 2018
From: Breaking News

Rettie & Co is the first agency north of the border to offer a no-deposit scheme to tenants - although it’s...
11 October 2018
From: Breaking News

The latest rental figures produced by Your Move for Scotland have prompted a claim that the country now has better yields...
28 September 2018
From: Breaking News

Another short let management firm, set up in the wake of an explosion of Airbnb-style renting by amateurs and professionals, is...
17 September 2018
From: Breaking News

The UK's second city Birmingham takes top spot when it comes to student property returns for buy-to-let investors. Analysis by online letting...
07 September 2018
From: Breaking News

A leading letting agent argues that the UK housing market is not prepared to deal with a growing number of lifetime...
05 September 2018
From: Breaking News

The Scottish Government’s private rental reforms are shaking up the sector according to new data, which reveals rental property sales have...
16 August 2018
From: Breaking News

Rents in the UK, excluding London, are still increasing but at their slowest rate for five years. Figures from specialist lender Landbay...
06 August 2018
From: Breaking News

The proportion of visitors to Edinburgh using Airbnb surged 70 per cent in 2017 compared to the previous year. Commercial agency Colliers,...
03 August 2018
From: Breaking News

CityLets, Scotland’s largest online lettings listings service, says it’s business as usual for the market north of the border despite a...
01 August 2018
From: Breaking News

Sourced, which describes itself as the largest property investment platform in the UK, has secured its 25th franchise some 10 months...
22 June 2018
From: Breaking News

An analysis of over 580,000 properties has produced a league table of Britain’s best and worst buy to let postcodes in...
18 June 2018
From: Breaking News

Airsorted, one of a number of management services that have sprung up to cater for hosts using Airbnb and similar platforms,...
06 June 2018
From: Breaking News

The Scottish rental market performed solidly in the last year, with the average rent rising by 0.6 per cent to hit...
03 May 2018
From: Breaking News

Rents in Scotland continue to grow but the rate is slowing according to the latest data from Your Move. The average rental...
29 March 2018
From: Breaking News

Rightmove has revealed that the 10 year average growth in asking rents across London has been 25 per cent, and over...
28 March 2018
From: Breaking News

As students begin their search for housing for the next academic year, a university has relaunched a dedicated lettings agency service The...
20 March 2018
From: Breaking News

Politicians in London and Scotland are looking at new controls which could be imposed on home owners letting out their properties...
31 January 2018
From: Breaking News

Liverpool and Nottingham are the UK’s best performing property investment locations, according to mortgage broker Private Finance. Both cities enjoy average rental...
29 January 2018
From: Breaking News

The government has been accused by a lettings sector trade body of skewing the market to encourage more short-lets. The claim comes...
24 January 2018
From: Breaking News

Research by the University of Sheffield is reported to show the apparent damage done by short lets on Airbnb and similar...
05 January 2018
From: Breaking News

The Scottish rental market continued to perform strongly in the year to the end of October with the average property let for £572 on...
29 November 2017
From: Breaking News

A respected letting agency research head says Build To Rent could be a significant step towards solving the overall shortage of...
08 September 2017
From: Breaking News

A report into the Scottish rental market by Your Move says letting agents north of the border are already preparing for...
01 September 2017
From: Breaking News

Green Party politician Andy Wightman claims that £10.6m in taxes are being avoided this year due to the boom in private...
07 August 2017
From: Breaking News

Purpose-built and professionally-managed Build To Rent - until now seen as a primarily London phenomenon - appears on the march in Scotland...
12 July 2017
From: Breaking News

Uber and a Build To Rent developer have announced a PropTech deal which will see the transport company getting involved in...
30 May 2017
From: Breaking News

Scotland’s rental market swings to extremes, suggests the latest figures from website Citylets. On the one hand the Scottish average rent has...
25 April 2017
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A tenant has been tracked down after a year-long exercise and has now picked up the deposit he forgot to collect...
12 April 2017
From: Breaking News

ARLA Propertymark representatives have met with Home Office officials in Cardiff and Edinburgh ahead of the government’s roll-out of Right To...
06 March 2017
From: Breaking News

A Scottish agency group has announced that it has acquired a lettings business in order to move into the short-term lettings...
24 January 2017
From: Breaking News

Average private rents in Scotland at the national level recorded an uncharacteristic dip in the final quarter of 2016, down 0.9...
19 January 2017
From: Breaking News

The managing director of one of the most prominent letting agencies in Edinburgh and Glasgow - where agents’ fees on tenants...
29 November 2016
From: Breaking News

The average rent for a UK property grew by a negligible 0.05 per cent in October, despite a tiny fall in...
04 November 2016
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The average UK tenant expects to remain part of the Private Rented Sector for a further decade, according to a new...
14 September 2016
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Data produced by Scottish lettings agency DJ Alexander Lettings appears to show a growing trend towards long-term letting over buying. The agency,...
21 June 2016
From: Breaking News

Tenancy deposits in England and Wales are typically £100 dearer than the Scottish equivalent. Between June 2015 and May 2016, the average...
15 June 2016
From: Breaking News

A letting agent has launched its own management service for landlords organising short-term lets on Airbnb. ACEProperty, an estate and letting agency...
02 June 2016
From: Breaking News

Annual rent rises in Scotland hit a three-year low in April, according to new figures. Your Move's Scotland Buy-to-Let Index shows that...
25 May 2016
From: Breaking News

Average asking rents in Scotland now stand at £767 per month, up 2.1 per cent over the past year. The exception to...
21 April 2016
From: Breaking News

Robert Watts Lettings has secured the latest Lettings Landlord award from the ESTAS. Kate Watts, head of lettings of the agency based...
21 January 2016
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People coming to work in Scotland from overseas are making up an increasing proportion of private sector tenants according to a...
19 January 2016
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New research from HomeLet reveals that Brighton, Bristol, Edinburgh and Newcastle recorded the largest increase in rents last year amongst the...
12 January 2016
From: Breaking News

One of Scotland’s largest independent letting agencies has entered into two deals adding over 600 properties to its inventory. The Edinburgh-based DJ...
08 December 2015
From: Breaking News

With perhaps ironic timing, rents across some parts of Scotland are falling - just as the Scottish Government prepares to outline...
07 October 2015
From: Breaking News

The shortage of rental accommodation in some university towns is so great that up to 22 people are competing for every...
21 September 2015
From: Breaking News

Who are you? Michael Groves, Partner of Lomond Capital which is focused on bringing together good quality regional letting and estate...
17 September 2015
From: 60 Second Interview

David Alexander, managing director of the letting agency DJ Alexander, has come across some unusual requests in over 30 years doing business...
03 September 2015
From: Breaking News

A Scottish agent has warned that government proposals to restrict landlord repossessions could negatively impact accommodation costs at the Edinburgh Festival. David...
08 June 2015
From: Breaking News

A new director of The Property Ombudsman in Scotland and chief executive of one of that country’s major letting agencies ia...