Residential tenancies in Scotland

Acknowledging the importance of Scottish property practice to our customers we are incrementally developing a new set of content on Scots property law for Scottish practitioners.

Scotland collection

The Scotland collection is a research tool collating guidance on key areas of law that are specifically relevant to Scotland. The collection brings together Scots law content from across a number of practice areas and includes links to Practice Notes, Checklists and Q&As as well as legal articles and analysis on legal issues directly affecting Scotland. See: Scotland collection.

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The scope and content of the Residential tenancies in Scotland topic is being developed in collaboration with the following leading Property experts in Scottish property practice.

Recognising that the Property Standardisation Group (PSG) (in collaboration with a number of other professional bodies including the Law Society of Scotland, the Scottish Property Federation and the City of London Law Society and

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