The Scottish Association of Landlords (SAL) said the Scottish Government must dump damaging rhetoric criticising private landlords and, instead, encourage investment in the sector plus accelerate plans to build more homes for social rent.

SAL has published the results of a member survey of 635 of its members, with a collective private rented sector (PRS) portfolio of 4,214 properties, which found 34% are planning to reduce their portfolio in the next ten years.

Even assuming a modest reduction of one property per landlord, this would lead to a fall of over 36,000 properties available to rent across Scotland with the two most commonly given reasons being increased regulation in the sector (62%) and perceived hostility from government (60%).

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