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Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3 The next item of business is stage 3 of the Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) (Scotland) Bill.
A temporary form of rent control was first introduced in 2022 with the Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) (Scotland) Act.Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) (Scotland) Act 2022 That has since lapsed, however the Housing (Scotland) Act 2025 creates a framework for the introduction of rent control areas in local author...
The Bill would:
prevent a landlord from increasing rent for a tenant with a private residential tenancy by more than CPI+1%;
allow a tenant to apply to the rent officer to have a ‘fair open market rent’ set for the property (a tenant can do this only once in any 12-month perio...
Changing that would, in effect, limit housing associations’ ability to carry out those important practices, which benefit and protect MMR tenants in ways that typical private rented sector tenants are not afforded.
We have published analysis of the response to our Private Rented Sector Strategy and are considering our next steps: Supporting documents - A New Deal for Tenants: consultation analysis - gov.scot (www.gov.scot).
We have published analysis of the response to our Private Rented Sector Strategy and are considering our next steps: Supporting documents - A New Deal for Tenants: consultation analysis - gov.scot (www.gov.scot).
We have published analysis of the response to our Private Rented Sector Strategy and are considering our next steps: Supporting documents - A New Deal for Tenants: consultation analysis - gov.scot (www.gov.scot).