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Charity partner announced for 2025 Short Stay Summit
Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: The Short Stay Summit, the UK’s largest annual event dedicated to short-term rentals, hospitality, and tourism, has announced the Forces Employment Charity [FEC] as its official charity partner for 2025.
FHL tax regime to be abolished from April 2025
Reading Time: 3 minutesUK: The UK Government will abolish the furnished holiday lettings [FHL] tax regime from April next year, removing the tax advantages that landlords who offer short-term holiday lets have over those who provide standard residential properties.
Holyrood relaxes holiday let licensing law in Scotland
Reading Time: 4 minutesScotland: MSPs in Holyrood have announced a number of technical updates to the short-term lets licensing scheme that was introduced in 2022, sparking relief for holiday let owners in Scotland.
Empty homes outnumber holiday lets in majority of UK destinations
Reading Time: 5 minutesUK: The holiday let industry is setting out to expose the “rampant hypocrisy” at the heart of attacks on the sector as new research reveals that empty homes outnumber holiday lets in the majority of UK local authorities.
SCALE Show 2024: STAA chief executive Andy Fenner
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSpain: UK Short Term Accommodation Association [STAA] chief executive Andy Fenner speaks to STRz at the 2024 SCALE Show in Barcelona.
Key Data partners with the UK STAA
Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: Short-term rental data provider Key Data is now the exclusive data partner of the UK Short Term Accommodation Association [STAA], bringing insights into travel and occupancy trends for the UK’s short-term rental economy.
Second homeowners in Scotland face double council tax from April
Reading Time: 3 minutesScotland: The Scottish National Party is believed to be preparing to force families with rural second homes to pay double the amount of council tax they pay from April 2024, in what is being called a “radical shake-up of rural housing rules”.
Over 370k homes unbuilt in Scotland as crackdown begins
Reading Time: 2 minutesScotland: While the holiday let industry is blamed for the housing crisis, prompting a nationwide clampdown, a pipeline of more than 370,000 homes across Scotland remains unbuilt, new research has revealed.
Edinburgh Council licensing scheme deemed to be unlawful
Reading Time: 4 minutesScotland: A licensing scheme for short-term let hosts and property managers proposed by the City of Edinburgh Council has been deemed unlawful in a landmark ruling at the Court of Session in Scotland.
UK STAA appoints Abode Worldwide as public relations agency
Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: Lodging and hospitality public relations specialist, Abode Worldwide, has been appointed by the UK Short Term Accommodation Association [STAA] as its retained public relations agency.