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Scots standard commercial leases now available
Property Standardisation Group's work produces results
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Community interests can affect property anywhere
Search of register advised in all non-residential sales
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First tenants' LBTT three-yearly returns due soon
Revenue Scotland in change of policy over reminders
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Yes, private parking penalties can be enforced
Dundee case finds contract established on basis of signs
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Letter: why so many rejections?
Time for a review of the Keeper's policy
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Indemnity covered land transfer outwith option exercise
Developer to compensate for transfer under s 75 agreement
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Commercial common sense – the latest
Ordinary and natural meaning applies, even if bad bargain
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Sasine Register closed to standard securities
Borrowers gain advantage from voluntary registration
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Community rights to buy extend across country
Potential for compulsory sales also in the pipeline
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Letter: information deficit
Is disclosure of beneficial ownership no longer being pursued?
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Letter: inaccuracies in the register
Are Registers of Scotland staff making more mistakes on title sheets? How big is the problem?
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Registers asks for views on Keeper-induced registration
12-week consultation on further aid to completing Land Register
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LBTT rates under scrutiny at Holyrood
Finance Committee considering effect on property market
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Letter: not so easy on the eye
Can land certificates not be made more readable, rather than just a mass of unformatted text?
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Land Register: steps towards completion
Keeper's key proposals in response to consultation
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More property law reforms on the way
Scottish Law Commission programme has further agenda
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Unenforceable burdens
Many feudal burdens remain on titles but can no longer be enforced
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End of the Park, Petitioners problem
What the Legal Writings Act will mean in practice for delivery
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A complete Land Register?
A case study of the kind of obstacles that lie in the way
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Letter: RoS wants to engage
This is your chance to help shape the 2012 Act in practice
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Letter: Time to stop the title raiders
Extend the jurisdiction of the Lands Tribunal to prevent ransom demands