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Government’s rent caps ‘are a flawed policy’

In RealEstate
May 03, 2025

David Alexander

The announcement of the Scottish government of a consultation on rentalization exemptions stands out how confused its current policy, according to DJ Alexander.

The Scottish rental agency and the real estate agency said that the idea that this consultation on exempting certain properties would clarify how rental limits would simply work badly.

Paul McLennan, Minister of Scottish Housing, said that: “Continuous calls have been implemented to obtain more certainty about the rental controls and how the rental rental rentals will be applied. To the consultation of the sewing seam, the draft Law of Scotland could be used to exempt certain types of control properties and the circumstances in which the rental level of rental of the rent could be embedded.”

McLennan states that the Scottish government “is achieving a balance between tenants and owners” in rental controls with the objective of “focusing on local circumstances and seeking to stabilize rentals for tenants in areas where they are increasing too much, while there is an appropriate balance to protect the property rights of the owners.”

The consultation considers that owners could be allowed to increase above the rental limit if there were improvements in their property or where rental rents have been constantly charged to a level lower than market rates.

However, the consultation could also produce a two -level market, since it proposes to exempt interest developers (BTR) of the rental controls. The consultation says that BTR suppliers are usually long -term investors and provide a constant household supply.

David Alexander, executive director of DJ Alexander Scotland, commented: “This consultation, although it is welcome if it really produces a real change, is simply playing at the edges of this policy when what is the currency and leadership.”

“Instead of providing a viable solution, an admission is real that rental limits are a defective policy that will only worsen the situation for reasons. The consultation is, or of course, an integral part of the development of any coherent idea coughs for these proposals and proposals and proposals and proposals and proposals and proposals and proposals and proposals and useless proposals and, in a crucial way, they are more delayed in anything that are delayed in the rental of the problems.

Alexander continued: “Instead of more consultations and prevarication, it would be useful to have some concrete policies that improve real PRS for owners and tenants. The Irish government faces a file for Scottish and Incaaty Tucosotcy by tracking the sector of private interest.”

“The new Taoiseach Micheal Martin has said that” we need to turn more strongly to obtain a more private investment in the market in the market “that” will imply politically very difficult decisions “, including a review of the existing rental pressure areas in Ireland, which is cited as a large block of tropiezos for investors. A report by the organization for economic cooperation and development recently suggesting that the tenders in Ire. If they are capable, “the remains”, the crops, the crops.

“What we need are great ideas to create more changes. More consultations, although they are good, they can simply create another speaker store. To create real growth, there must Landots of the Landots “