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Around 500 landlords, letting agents and housing professionals and more than 40 exhibitors involved in private rented housing in Scotland will gather in Edinburgh today for the Scottish Letting Day conference.

A letting agent and property management company is offering a new way for people to rent a property without the substantial outlay of paying a deposit. Stonehouse Lettings said its Reposit initiative is the first of its type to be offered to the north east rental market.

SafeDeposits Scotland is hosting workshops to train Stirling landlords on dispute management. In the last year, 113 disputes have arisen between landlords and tenants in Stirling and the surrounding areas according to the latest research from SafeDeposits Scotland.

A husband and wife property investor team are set to breathe new life into a tired block of flats in Aberdeen. Dr Mohammad Namavar and Dr Elahe Radmaneshfar plan to turn 17 serviced apartments into modern rental homes thanks to a £437,500 cash injection from Together, which contributed to purc

SafeDeposits Scotland is running dispute management workshops in Aberdeen to train local landlords. In the last year, 377 disputes have arisen between landlords and tenants in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire, according to the latest research from SafeDeposits Scotland.

Housing consultant Anna Evans provides a summary of independent research undertaken by Indigo House on the impact of short-term lets on communities across Scotland. The research assessed the positive and negative impacts of short-term lets – those advertised through platforms such as Airbnb, B

A consultation on short-term lets found wide support for regulation, according to independent analysis published today.

A unique service within Glasgow City Council is working with families living in the city’s private rented sector (PRS) to prevent homelessness and address issues relating to child poverty.

A tenant in a house of multiple occupancy who claimed she and her landlords were subject to a private residential tenancy (PRT) has had her appeal dismissed.

An Edinburgh landlord has been ordered to pay £7,500 to his former tenants after a court rejected his claim that the flat was a ‘holiday-let’.

The Scottish Association of Landlords (SAL) has welcomed the Scottish Labour Party’s Housing Commission report but warned that knee-jerk regulation could prevent the goals of the commission being delivered. As Scotland’s largest membership organisation for private landlords, SAL has welc

Scottish tenants could be due hundreds of pounds as SafeDeposits Scotland revealed that nearly 2,000 renters haven’t claimed tenancy deposits worth over £500,000. Worth an average of £260, the tenancy deposit protection scheme found regional variations in unclaimed deposits.

A Glasgow landlord has been fined after he demanded rent from a tenant despite having been issued a council ban. Mr Harpal “Harry” Singh demanded money from 21-year-old Liam Fair in February last year.

A woman who appealed a decision of the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland on the basis of her claim she did not have a private residential tenancy (PRT) under the Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016 has had her appeal refused by the Upper Tribunal for Scotland.

Edinburgh landlords and letting agents are to receive a workshop on managing disputes over tenancy deposits. The workshops, conducted by SafeDeposits Scotland, take place after research revealed that in the last year, 490 disputes have arisen between landlords and tenants in the Edinburgh postc