The Scottish Government recently announced that it will be removing the restrictions on rent increases for residential tenancies at the end of March.
From 1st of April 2025, landlords will no longer be restricted on the level of rent they can propose in a rent increase notice to their tenants. Any new rent would take effect 3 months later from 1st of July.
Tenants will still have the right to appeal the rent to a rent officer or tribunal if they feel that the rent is higher than the market rent. Any appeal would result in the rent being set at the open market rental value, even if that is higher than the landlord had proposed.
The Scottish Government is still intending to introduce permanent rent controls in the future, and there is a Housing Bill going through parliament at the moment to bring these into force. For more information on this see our blog http://glasgowpropertyblog.blogspot.com/2024/05/are-rent-controls-coming-to-scotland.html
It is unlikely that any rent controls introduced through this new legislation would come into force before 2027.
