Professional body raises concerns over Scotland's rented sector

Scotland’s rented sector reform must be balanced and address the “needs and rights” of letting agents and their landlords, a professional body has argued. Propertymark said the “tenant-centred approach” being taken to further reform the rented sector was a “further erosion of landlords’ rights”. The professional body also describes a proposal to ban winter evictions as “unnecessary and unworkable”. The organisation was responding to the consultation on the Scottish Government’s draft rented sector strategy. Propertymark said: “This strategy proposes fundamental and far-reaching changes that are tenant-centred and in some cases lack the data-led evidence that they are completely necessary."

The Scotsman