Andrew Watson

Bifurcated professionalisation: the conceptual, strategic, and practical limitations of the Scottish Government’s policies to ‘professionalise’ the private rented sector

Over the last decade, the Scottish Government has pursued the professionalisation of the Private Rented Sector (PRS) through a bifurcated model. One branch promotes ‘facilitated professionalisation’ by courting Build-to-Rent (BTR) investment through policy incentives. The other i...