Right to Buy in Scotland - How long will you have the right for?
If you live in Scotland and are thinking about buying your
council house or flat it might be worth looking into it now.
Recent changes in legislation are limiting the opportunities of
those wishing to buy their home and rumours predict that
the Right to Buy scheme could be abolished in the very
near future.
Introduced in the 1980s the Righ
t to Buy scheme achieved its goal and was successful in
offering tens of thousands of council tenants the
opportunity of owning their own home. In a survey carried
out by the charity Shelter Scotland, out of the 1013 members of
the public interviewed, 66% said that Scotland had benefited
from the scheme by increasing the number of home owners.
The popular scheme seemed to be going very well hitting an all
time peak of over 240,000 new home owners under the
scheme in 1982. However in 2001 the maximum discount was reduced
to