| Comment | https://www.qcha.org.uk/ owns most of the social housing along from Cowcaddens towards Maryhill, and Firhill is basically their centre. So they own nearly all the tenements and new-builds in Firhill, rented to social tenants.
Under the (now closed) insane right to buy scheme, between 1996-2016 social tenants could buy their flats outright from the HA at 'market value', so this means that in many of those blocks of flats there are individual properties owned privately, where the block is still managed by QCHA. (as above, this is actually a good thing as HAs are far better at maintaining properties than private factors are, because they have a direct interest in it).
You should be able to tell if this is the case from the Home Report - see if the property is factored by Queens Cross Factoring, which is their arms-reach company for taking payments from private owners.
Don't see social housing as a bad thing - in reality it generally means retired folk and low-skilled workers who can't get mortgages. You get the odd anti-social tenant but they tend to get kicked out by the HA. I own a flat in a QCHA block and, while there's the odd numpty, mostly it's really quiet and I get on well with the neighbours.
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