Common repairs

OWNERS ASSOCIATIONS MUST REFLECT MODERN REALITIES

Submitted by Editor on Tue, 16/12/2025 - 00:31

Last week, we published an article summarising responses to the Scottish Law Commission's proposal for compulsory owners associations in Scotland's tenements. You can read it here.

Below, local resident Dennis O'Keeffe gives a professional appraisal of contemporary tenure realities and why absentee ownership, private-rented-sector growth and short-term letting churn must shape the design of any new arrangements.

HOW TO DEFUSE THE TENEMENTAL ‘TICKING TIMEBOMB’

Submitted by Editor on Fri, 12/12/2025 - 13:32

Following publication of a Scottish Law Commission report and draft legislation commission

COUNCIL CONSULTS ON NEW PROPERTY CONSERVATION MEASURES

Submitted by Editor on Thu, 13/09/2012 - 11:33

Readers will recall the scandal which recently engulfed City of Edinburgh Council's Property Conservation Service (PCS). There have been allegations of householders being charged sometimes excessively or for unnecessary work, and of some private firms bribing some public officials in order to secure contracts.

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