Short-term lets: regulation information

Monitoring

The Minister for Housing wrote to the Scottish Parliament’s Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee on 28 June 2023 to provide an update on the implementation of short-term let licensing in Scotland.

As part of this, the Minister advised a further update would follow in 2024 and that the Scottish Government would confirm the scope later in 2023.

In October 2023, the Minister wrote to the Committee again to outline the scope of an ongoing iterative process to monitor delivery and to identify solutions to any operational challenges, as well as what emerging good practice looks like.

On 30 August 2024, the Scottish Government published a report about the implementation of short-term let licensing. This report provides information on:

• initial short-term let licence application levels across Scotland
• feedback from stakeholders about operational processes
• Scottish Government response and actions

Ongoing monitoring

The Scottish Government will continue to monitor the implementation of short-term let licensing. We will do this in a proportionate manner by:

• continuing to collect and consider insights from a range of data sources
• periodically reviewing our own short-term lets licensing data collection, and the format and a frequency of statistical publications, to ensure we are maintaining an accurate picture of short-term let licensing
• continuing stakeholder engagement through established groups
• providing an update on the implementation of short-term let licensing in 2025, utilising insight collected through the above information streams