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Scots standard commercial leases now available
Property Standardisation Group's work produces results

Community interests can affect property anywhere
Search of register advised in all non-residential sales

First tenants' LBTT three-yearly returns due soon
Revenue Scotland in change of policy over reminders

Yes, private parking penalties can be enforced
Dundee case finds contract established on basis of signs

Letter: why so many rejections?
Time for a review of the Keeper's policy

Indemnity covered land transfer outwith option exercise
Developer to compensate for transfer under s 75 agreement

Commercial common sense – the latest
Ordinary and natural meaning applies, even if bad bargain

Sasine Register closed to standard securities
Borrowers gain advantage from voluntary registration

Community rights to buy extend across country
Potential for compulsory sales also in the pipeline

Letter: information deficit
Is disclosure of beneficial ownership no longer being pursued?

Letter: inaccuracies in the register
Are Registers of Scotland staff making more mistakes on title sheets? How big is the problem?

Registers asks for views on Keeper-induced registration
12-week consultation on further aid to completing Land Register

LBTT rates under scrutiny at Holyrood
Finance Committee considering effect on property market

Letter: not so easy on the eye
Can land certificates not be made more readable, rather than just a mass of unformatted text?

Land Register: steps towards completion
Keeper's key proposals in response to consultation

More property law reforms on the way
Scottish Law Commission programme has further agenda

Unenforceable burdens
Many feudal burdens remain on titles but can no longer be enforced

End of the Park, Petitioners problem
What the Legal Writings Act will mean in practice for delivery

A complete Land Register?
A case study of the kind of obstacles that lie in the way

Letter: RoS wants to engage
This is your chance to help shape the 2012 Act in practice

Letter: Time to stop the title raiders
Extend the jurisdiction of the Lands Tribunal to prevent ransom demands