Question reference: S5W-34742
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: 22 January 2021
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Current status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 1 February 2021
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to review the current COVID-19 restrictions that prevent estate agents entering a house to prepare it for sale when there is a sitting tenant in the property.
Answer
The Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance on moving home ( www.gov.scot/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-guidance-moving-home/ )
was last updated on 25 January 2021. It applies to home moves across all tenures, including those in the rented sector. It is kept under review and updated regularly.
Essential work in people’s homes to support home moves, including visits by letting agents and landlords, can continue where this is unavoidable and with appropriate safeguards. The occupiers of the home and any person visiting the home must be well and must not be showing coronavirus symptoms nor they nor any of their household be self-isolating.