We help many different housing clients, of different sizes and with different agendas. Whether you are a registered social landlord (RSL) and operate in the social housing sphere or are letting private accommodation, we can keep you up-to-date with changes in the legal environment and help protect your interests.
If you are a housing association or RSL, we can advise you in relation to:
- tenancy issues – including revising the terms of your Scottish Secure tenancy (SST) and Short SST, termination, eviction, abandonment, assignation and succession of tenancies and antisocial behaviour including ASBOs and Closure Orders
- property maintenance – including the Gas Safety Regulations and your repairing obligations
- Housing Benefit/Local Housing Allowance – including the clawback of benefits
- debt recovery and factoring
- first and second stage stock transfers
- corporate – including loans and refinancing, service level agreements, partnering arrangements and group structures
- governance issues – including tax and charitable law obligations
- property – including site development, transfer of titles, boundary disputes and Right-to-Buy transactions
- construction – including construction (design & management) regulations and health and safety
- employment law
- finance and building development.
If you are a private letting agency or landlord, we can advise you on issues such as:
- landlord and tenant law
- statutory obligations
- tenancy agreements and protecting landlords’ rights
- short assured tenancies
- compliance with requirements for documentation and notices
- contracts
- letting charges and premiums
- dispute resolution
- purchase and sale, estate agency
- and any other areas that affect your business.
Whether you are a housing association, a registered social landlord or a private letting agency, disputes with tenants are relatively common in the sector. Our primary concern is to prevent disputes occurring in the first place. But if you are already involved in a dispute, we aim to save you money and time by resolving it before it reaches litigation.
Latest service news & features
Factoring in Changes- the Property Factors (Scotland) Act 2011
13 December 2011
The Property Factors (Scotland) Act 2011 comes into force on 1 October 2012. The Act requires Scottish Ministers to prepare and maintain a register of property factors in Scotland and to make it an offence to act as a property factor without being on the register.
Bulletin - Housing - Winter 2011
7 December 2011
Welcome to the Winter edition of our Housing Bulletin for the private rented sector. This issue includes an update on the introduction of Tenancy Deposit Schemes and the 2011 Act, the problem of whether a property is abandoned and new legislation in respect of a tenant’s property.
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