Airbnb vs Airbnb Agent vs Letting Agent

Airbnb vs Airbnb Agent vs Letting Agent

There’s absolutely no doubt that the success of Airbnb and Airbnb agents has completely changed the landscape of the Edinburgh lettings market. It’s a fantastic business model. Allowing users to capitalise on their property by renting their spare room, it’s an easy way to make some extra money. The website that was originally designed to rent […]

The Best Easter Egg Rolling in Edinburgh

The Best Easter Egg Rolling in Edinburgh

Easter Egg rolling has been a tradition since the 19th century. Symbolic of rolling away the rock in front of Christ’s tomb, the egg is also supposed to signify the rebirth of land during spring. Being amongst the UK’s hilliest cities, Edinburgh is “eggactly” the right place to find the perfect Easter egg rolling spot. […]

The Big Four Edinburgh Fringe Venues

The Big Four Edinburgh Fringe Venues

The Edinburgh Fringe Festival (often referred to simply as the ‘The Fringe’) is the world’s largest Arts Festival. Established in 1947, by 2016 it spanned 25 days, featured 50,266 performances of 3,269 shows in 294 venues! Sounds a bit crazy, right? So here is a guest pass into finding out more about these spectacular Fringe […]

Moving to Edinburgh from Overseas

Moving to Edinburgh from Overseas

This guest blog is written by one of our tenants about her experiences of moving to Edinburgh and the logistics of transporting her possessions. We hope you find it useful. Moving to Edinburgh and out of your own country is exciting and provides you with a chance to explore a bit more of the world. Many expats […]

The Best Edinburgh Coffee

The Best Edinburgh Coffee

When you think of Edinburgh, the first thing that springs to mind may be the amazing festivals in August, or perhaps the incredible architecture of the Old Town, the castle sat on the hill, or even the wide assortment of incredible cocktail bars throughout the city. Once you have spent a little time wandering its […]

Short Term or Holiday Let – is there a difference?

Short Term or Holiday Let – is there a difference?

The Council does not seem to have a clear policy regarding short term lets. Factotum are concerned that landlords are getting confusing advice from council workers. They seem to have advised some of our landlords that a tenancy longer than a month would represent the tenants’ only or main residence, adopting HMRC’s definition of 31 days […]