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Nick and Steven discuss the return of Scotland's £10k First Home Fund and its implications for the property market.

The last time Scotland launched this fund it had £60 million and it was gone in eight days. This time they've got £100 million. Nick and Steven give it two weeks. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿In this month's market update, they break down exactly how the £10k First Home Fund works, what the catches are, and why investors should be paying attention too — because when first-time buyers pile into the 80–100k market, it gets competitive fast.That's just one of the stories this month. Gilt rates just hit their highest level since 2008. Scottish rents have dropped annually for the first time in eight years. And a new law coming in April 2027 means one tenant in a joint tenancy can end the lease for everybody — a potential nightmare for HMO landlords.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🕐 TIMESTAMPS━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━00:00 – Intro & what's coming up this episode01:48 – Rants episode feedback — scarcity selling & FOMO in the market05:30 – The dodgy deal story — unfactored building, hole in the wall, empty property12:21 – Listener email — "Fatty" tells Nick to stop interrupting Steven15:04 – Fuel prices & the macro economy17:26 – CPI inflation came in at 2.8% — lower than expected19:47 –…

People in this episode

Hosts: Nick Ponty, Steven Clark

Topics covered

• First Home Fund
• Scottish property market
• interest rates
• CPI inflation
• rental market trends
• HMO landlord challenges

Keywords

• First Home Fund
• Scottish property
• interest rates
• CPI inflation
• rental market
• HMO landlords
• Zoopla index

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Scottish Property Podcast, Zoopla

Places: Scotland

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