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Insights | Residential Property
  • 6 May 2025
  • | Edward Gratwick
  • | Fraser Napier

Landlord Rights under Scotland’s PRT Regime: Navigating the challenges of Rent Arrears and Reasonableness

Scotland’s Private Residential Tenancy (PRT) framework presents landlords with significant challenges when facing a tenant who stops paying r...

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Insights | Residential Property
  • 27 January 2025
  • | Fraser Napier

Weathering the storm: your rights after storm Eowyn

Storm Eowyn has wreaked havoc across Scotland, leaving property owners and tenants grappling with damage to homes, flats, and surrounding structure...

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Insights | Residential Property
  • 12 August 2024
  • | Paul Henderson

Ownership by Possession: A Brief Summary on Prescriptive Claims

Thanks to sayings such as “possession is nine tenths of the law” it is perhaps not surprising that a lot of people might assume that occupation of ...

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Insights | Residential Property, Rural
  • 17 April 2023
  • | Tim Macdonald

Additional Dwelling Supplement and reliefs available to mitigate it

The increase of Additional Dwelling Supplement (ADS) – sometimes known as the “second home surcharge” – to 6% of the purchase price from 16 Decembe...

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Insights | Residential Property
  • 7 December 2022
  • | Ruth Maclean

What happens when the title conditions affecting a property no longer reflect the current layout of the property?

For those not familiar with Scottish property title conditions, it seems to me that the easiest way to understand title deeds are that the quality ...

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Insights | Residential Property, Rural
  • 6 December 2021
  • | Julia Kidd

Found your Highland dream home? Know what you’re buying

With remote working becoming a realistic option for many of us, we’re seeing an increase in those looking to move to more rural locations. But when...

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Insights | Residential Property, Rural
  • 25 November 2021
  • | Adèle Nicol

Improving conditions for rural let properties

Holyrood has consistently placed importance on improving the quality of houses (and indeed landlords!) in the private rented sector; for example by...

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Insights | Residential Property, Rural
Rural development plot
  • 15 October 2021
  • | Linsey Barclay-Smith

Grand Designs – what makes a rural development plot a dream home?

For many, finding and buying your dream home is a matter of browsing online property pages until the right one comes along and everything falls int...

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Events | Commercial Property, Residential Property, Rural
  • Date: 30 October 2021

Property services pop up clinic

The Coronavirus pandemic has changed the property requirements of many, both personally and in business. Now that we can meet in person again, we h...

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Insights | Residential Property
  • 24 June 2021
  • | Sara Jalicy

A Guide to Buying Property in Scotland

The Scottish system for buying property differs from elsewhere in the UK. This brief guide doesn’t cover every possible aspect or scenario but offe...

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Insights | Residential Property
  • 15 February 2021
  • | Jemma Richardson

The residential property market boom

The Scottish residential property market ended 2020 with a boom, with property values in Edinburgh seeing a sharp increase in t...

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Insights | Residential Property
  • 8 December 2020
  • | Graham White

Coronavirus triggers Scottish property market shift

Among the changes triggered by the coronavirus pandemic has been a shift in the attitudes of property sellers and buyers in Sco...

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