Renting in Scotland needs to change.
Author: James Battye
Scotland’s household estimates: are we building to last?
Today National Registers of Scotland released their updated household estimates for 2015. They show that the number of Scottish households has grown by 18,200 in the past year.
The wrong cuts: Budget 2015 analysis
Today the Chancellor confirmed how the UK government intends to reduce the welfare budget by £12bn by 2017-18. As has been widely predicted, housing benefit took a major hit: automatic...
New proposals for a private tenancy: five things renters need to know
Last week the Scottish Government published a second consultation on a new private tenancy. This goes further than the government’s initial proposal – which set out the high level...
Could new local taxation pave the way for a stable housing market?
On Friday the Scottish Government announced the remit and membership of the Commission on Local Tax Reform.