Portable Appliances Testing (PAT Testing) is a process of inspecting all electrical portable appliances on your property. It includes visual inspection and electrical testing of portable appliances to ensure that all your appliances are working properly. Why PAT Testing is necessary? Throughout Edinburgh and Scotland, it is a legal requirement for businesses and property landlords...

Higher Edinburgh HMO application fees and Covid-19 delays The recent Coronavirus pandemic may increase average processing times for HMO licence application. The Edinburgh Council’s 249 High Street office has been closed since 22.03.2020. Licensing team members have been working from home, with email and website being their preferred contact methods. Although the average timescale has...

How to renew an expired HMO licence After buying a property with an HMO licence in Edinburgh, you have 1 month to transfer the license, assuming you were a registered Edinburgh landlord on the date of the purchase. What happens if you don’t do it in time? Or if you were not on the Edinburgh...

What is Gas Safety Certificates? A gas safety certificate or check involves a Gas Safe registered engineer inspecting all your gas appliances. They will check the appliance is working correctly and will check the following four areas: Gas appliances are on the right setting and burning correctly with the correct operatingpressure Harmful gases are being...

What is Legionella Risk Assessment (LRA Check)? A legionella risk assessment is a process of doing an inspection of the water system in your property to ensure that the risk of legionella contaminating the is minimum. Under the Health and Safety Act, it is mandatory for residential landlords and homeowners to conduct a legionella risk...

What is this student-letting agency in Edinburgh? If you’re studying in Edinburgh and are thinking about where to live then you might consider the best student-letting agency in Edinburgh. Searching for a house can seem enormous at first. But choosing the right student-letting agency in Edinburgh can make the whole process easier, smooth and less...

Landlord Registration In Edinburgh! What is landlord registration? It is a process in which before the landlord rents out their property they must need to register with the local council authority where the property is located. If you are a landlord or own a house in Edinburgh, then you must need go for landlord registration...

What does letting agents mean? A letting agent carries out work for a landlord who wants to let out a property to a tenant. That’s When you let your  it.Let’s understand it simply.owned residential or commercial property there are lots of things landlords need to think about and work on. From property management to property...

As an experienced landlord, you already know how hectic the whole process and it never seems to get easy. For this reason, many new, as well as experienced landlords, choose the letting  Here are some tips which can help you to choose the best letting agency in Edinburgh. There are over 100 letting agencies operating...