Useful Links

Useful Links for Landlords

• Your Responsibilities as a Landlord 
• Letting Agent Registration
• Edinburgh City Council –  Guidance for Householders
• allAgents Reviews from Existing Landlords and Tenants
• Edinburgh By Numbers
• Google Reviews from Existing Landlords and Tenants
• Are You Still Landlord Registered?
• New Regulations for Landlords and Letting Agents
• Landlord Zone
• HMO Guidance
• HMO Application Costs
• HMRC Revenue & Customs
• NRL Scheme
• Electrical Safety Guide
• Edinburgh City Council
• Letting Protection Scotland
• PHRP (Private Rented Housing Panel)
• Edinburgh Suburb Named Top Place to Live in Scotland
  
• Council Tax Bands
• Facts and Myths about Sprinklers
• Tram works to start on Constitution Street Nov 2019

Articles

Planning and Change of Use 

Planning change of use
Report a problem with short term let or party flat

Banned Landlords and Fines Incurred

Glasgow landlords banned from renting homes 
Landlord ordered to pay £7,500 after claiming student flat was a holiday let

Short Term Lets 

Party flats to be probed by BBC Panorama
Housing and community concertns as Airbnb short-term lets increase
BBC to show Edinburgh Old Town party flat hell

LBTT Legislation 

LBTT Guidance on multiple dwellings relief
LBTT transaction tax calculator

Taxation Articles

Escape the buy-to-let clampdown
Two and three-bed buy-to-lets unviable
Buy-to-let property boom on its last legs

Capital Allowances 

Gov.UK
HMRC capital allowance manual

General Articles

Campaign to help keep Edinburgh flats in good repair
Increased Demand for Private Rented Property
New Requirements for the Private Rented Sector
Rental Property Trends
Property Tax
5 Scottish Universities Ranked in Top 200 Worldwide
Charity Calls for End to Letting Fees for Tenants UK Wide
Housebuilders Need to Build Faster
Boss sentenced after evading Tax
Edinburgh named The Best City in the World to Live
Timeline of Edinburgh History
Proposed change in legislation for block maintenance
Edinburgh Top UK City for Economic Growth
Average House Prices in Edinburgh
Virgin Hotel to bring 225 additional rooms for Edinburgh – unearthed historical findings
Edinburgh’s Crumbling Tenements