buying a home

Are you liable for home repair work issued by the Council?

Edinburgh is unique as a local government area in that it has private legislation empowering the Council to serve demands on co-owners to carry out common repairs, and in the absence of compliance from co-owners - for example the separate owners of a block of tenement flats - the Council is empowered to carry out the work themselves and to recover the costs from the co-owners thereafter.

Would You Go to Jail to Sell Your House?

How far are you willing to go in marketing your home in order to see it sold? Since the repeal of the Property Misdescription Act on 1st October 2013 and its replacement with the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 (CPR) and the Business Protection from Misleading Marketing Regulations 2008 (BPR), selling your home brings with it an increased duty to declare its faults.

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