| Comment | Since the 1st of December 2017, all new tenancies in Scotland (with a very small number of exceptions, such as purpose built student accommodation, lodgers and so on) are known as private residential tenancies (or PRTs). In particular, these tenancies include a few provisions. Among others:
* If you want to leave the property, all you need to do is give 28 days notice to your landlord. Longer notice periods can technically be agreed, but only when you've actually started living in the property, and you can't be forced to accept them either. This means that tenancies are "open-ended", so they don't end on a specific date or anything like that.
* If the landlord wants to stop renting the property to you, they need to give a ground for eviction, with an associated amount of notice depending on the reason (e.g if you've broken the tenancy agreement, that requires less notice than if the landlord wants to sell the property). And if you've been living in the property for more than 6 months, notice periods are generally longer on top of this.
* Rent can only be increased once every 12 months, you have to be given 3 months notice of any increase, and if you think it's unfair it can be referred to a rent officer, who will look at other similar properties in the area and decide whether it's in line with those. |
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