Planners in the Lake District National Park have approved a holiday letting property for dual use as a short-term rental or private home, but only if any resident meets a local occupancy test.
Sykes Holiday Cottages says its September 2025 bookings ran 3% ahead of last year, as domestic breaks push further into the shoulder season.
A survey of holiday let owners finds close to half say profits rose in the months after April's tax changes stripped away reliefs unique to furnished holiday lets.
Self-catering operators and hospitality trade groups shared a platform with MSPs from every major party to press for relief on licensing costs, rates and the coming visitor levy.
Legislation expected before Parliament within months would let regional mayors charge hotels, holiday rentals and Airbnb-style stays a nightly fee with no statutory ceiling.
Cumberland Building Society reports rising demand for holiday let mortgages even after the tax break that made the sector attractive was scrapped and licensing rules tightened across Scotland and Wales.
Homeowners in the East Lothian seaside town want the local council to curb the spread of cottages converted into short-term rentals.
Scotland's self-catering trade body says Glasgow's next City Development Plan would treat short-term lets as an unacceptable land use across most of the city, adding a planning hurdle on top of the national licensing scheme already in force.
The furnished holiday letting tax regime ended on April 6, 2025, and owners have until January 31 to claim its benefits one final time on last year's return.
A broker poll finds 88% have seen more inquiries for holiday let mortgages, even as the tax break that made the sector attractive disappears this year.
Perth and Kinross Council is asking residents and operators whether to introduce a visitor levy on overnight stays, following Edinburgh's lead under Scotland's 2024 tourism tax law.
The Stoke-on-Trent mutual now writes mortgages for holiday let purchases, giving owners another lender to shop against as the tax breaks that once favored the sector have disappeared.
An industry body representing Scotland's self-catering operators wants Highland Council to pause plans to widen its short-term let control area before assessing the impact of rules already in force.
East Lothian councillors are set to reconsider a resubmitted planning application for new-build holiday let homes, a decision that will test how the council treats short-term rental development after an earlier version of the scheme stalled.
Scotland's self-catering trade body has told Argyll and Bute Council that a new overnight charge could hit rural hosts already absorbing steep licensing costs and falling bookings.
The owner of a Greater Manchester property known locally as the shark house is asking the council to lift a ban on letting it out as a short-term rental, a dispute that turns on planning law rather than any licensing scheme.
Property agents across the two counties say the end of favorable tax treatment for furnished holiday lets has not produced the wave of sales many expected.
Nightly rates for short-term lets kept rising into late summer even as booking volumes eased from the July peak, sector data trackers report.
Short-term rental operators are keeping nightly rates steady even as booking volumes soften, resisting the discounting that usually follows a demand dip.
The Association of Scotland's Self-Caterers has filed Freedom of Information requests across local authorities to expose how much operators actually pay for short-term let licences.