Schedule of fees
What we charge,
and nothing else
Every fee we charge a landlord appears on this page. There is no second page, no rate card held back for negotiation, and no figure that changes once you have signed.
Schedule effective 11 November 2026
Our fees are shown before VAT. VAT at 20% is added to each one.
For landlords
Letting & management
Two levels of service. Move between them on a month’s notice.
I
Let Only
We find the tenant, carry out the checks and put the tenancy in place. From the day it starts, the property is yours to run.
£500+ VAT, once
£600 including VAT
Payable on the day the tenancy begins, and only if we let your property. Charged once, not for as long as the tenant remains.
Included
- Rental valuation, with recent local lets evidenced
- Professional photography, floorplan and To Let board
- Advertised on lintelhomes.co.uk and sent to our registered applicants
- Accompanied viewings, Saturdays included
- Referencing on every applicant, included in the fee
- Private Residential Tenancy drawn up on the Scottish Government model
- Inventory and schedule of condition, written and photographed
- Deposit collected and lodged with an approved scheme within 30 working days
- Guidance on landlord registration with your local authority
II
Full Management
We let the property and then run the whole of the tenancy for you: the rent, the paperwork, repairs, safety compliance, inspections and everything that follows from them.
10%of rent collected, + VAT
12% of rent, and £240, including VAT
Deducted from rent as it arrives. A letting fee of £200 + VAT comes out of the first month's rent each time we let the property, so no fee is payable until a tenant is in. No minimum term; one month's notice on either side.
Everything in Let Only, and
- The whole of Let Only, carried into this service
- Rent collected monthly and paid over with a written statement
- Arrears chased from the day they arise, and escalated
- Annual rent review, with the rent-increase notice served correctly
- Repairs handled end to end, with contractors billed at their own price
- The Repairing Standard maintained and evidenced
- Gas safety annually and an electrical report every five years
- EPC, interlinked smoke and heat alarms, and legionella assessment tracked
- Property inspections with a written photographic report
- Utility and council tax notified at every change of tenancy
- Emergency line outside office hours
- Notice to Leave prepared and served on the correct statutory ground
- First-tier Tribunal applications prepared and lodged
- Check-out inspection, deposit return agreed, and adjudication handled if it is disputed
- Year-end statement for your tax return
The percentage, the letting fee and the Let Only fee are written into your terms of business before you instruct us. We do not negotiate different rates for different landlords.
Nothing to pay until your property is let
We charge no upfront fees. There is no fee for instructing us, for marketing your property or for finding your tenant until the tenancy begins, and under Full Management our fees come out of rent we have collected. If we do not let your property, you pay us nothing.
A safety certificate the property needs before it can be let is the contractor's own invoice and our flat fee to arrange, and only where you ask us to arrange it.
Already have a tenant?
Whether you found the tenant yourself or are moving from another agent, we take the tenancy on as it stands under Full Management, at the percentage shown. The letting fee is not charged, because there is nothing to let, and there is no charge for taking the tenancy on: the percentage starts with the first rent we collect.
To keep or to print
The same fees, on paper
Each service on a page of its own, and the guide we give a landlord. Every one prints the date of the schedule it was made from.
Fee sheet
Full Management
What we do to let the property and to run the tenancy, and both fees, on one page.
Open the Full Management sheetPDF, one A4 page
Fee sheet
Let Only
What the fee covers, in the order a let runs, on one page.
Open the Let Only sheetPDF, one A4 page
Guide
A landlord’s guide
Our two lettings services and every fee attached to them, what Scots law asks of a landlord, and how a let runs from the first valuation to the day your tenant moves in.
Open the guidePDF, twelve A5 pages
Set your monthly rent and every figure updates. These are our published rates, the same for every landlord.
I
Let Only
£500 + VAT
once, on the day the tenancy begins
- First year, with VAT
- £600
- You receive
- £1,100/mo
≈ 4.5% of first-year rent
you collect the rent yourself
II
Full Management
£110 + VAT
per month (10% of rent collected)
- First year, with VAT
- £1,824
- You receive
- £968/mo
includes the £200 + VAT letting fee, and assumes the property is let for the full twelve months
paid to you monthly with a written statement, after the fee and its VAT
Our fees are shown before VAT. VAT at 20% is added to each one.
These figures are the service itself, for a property that is let. A tenancy renewal and a property standing empty between tenancies are charged separately, at the published rates in the schedule below. Between tenancies, while a property in our management is empty, the vacant-property minimum of £200 + VAT a month applies in place of the percentage; nothing is charged before your first tenant moves in. Referencing and the inventory are included in both services, and arranging works carries no charge from us at any size. Safety certificates are the contractor’s own invoice, never marked up, plus a flat £30 + VAT to arrange.
Itemised
Additional charges
Work that sits outside the service you have chosen, at the price printed here. Each group says when its charges arise.
The tenancy
Charged to the landlord, and only where you instruct the work in writing. None of it may be billed to a tenant in Scotland.
If you live outside the UK
Only while we collect your rent. HMRC's Non-Resident Landlord Scheme puts the tax reporting on whoever collects it, so under Full Management that is us.
Our time, by the hour
Charged in 15-minute units, from the time we leave the office, and agreed with you before we start.
How a charge reaches you
Four things that are true of every fee above
You instruct it first, in writing
We tell you what the work is and what it will cost, and it goes ahead when you say so. Two things do not wait for an instruction: an emergency where the property or somebody in it is at risk, and the non-resident landlord scheme, which the law puts on whoever collects your rent.
The landlord pays, never the tenant
Charging a tenant for referencing, an inventory or a renewal is an unlawful premium in Scotland and recoverable from the agent for five years. Every figure on this page is the landlord's to pay.
Every charge is its own line
Under Full Management, a charge is set against the rent as it arrives and shown on your monthly statement, with the date and what was done. Under Let Only, where we hold no rent, it is invoiced. Each is shown before VAT and with it, so the statement or the invoice says to the penny what the tax was.
The rate you sign is the rate you pay
Every figure here is written into your terms of business before you instruct us, and the same rates apply to every landlord. If this page changes later, your agreement does not: the fees you signed stay at the figures in your own document.
Third-party costs
Costs passed on
Somebody else’s invoice, arranged on your behalf and passed to you as it was issued. Nothing in this ledger is marked up.
Worth knowing
How this works in Scotland
Your tenancy is open-ended
Almost every private let in Scotland is a Private Residential Tenancy. There is no fixed term and no end date. The tenancy runs until the tenant leaves or the landlord ends it on one of the statutory grounds, by Notice to Leave. We prepare and serve those notices as part of the service.
Disputes go to the Tribunal
Not the Sheriff Court. The First-tier Tribunal for Scotland, Housing and Property Chamber, deals with evictions, rent and the Repairing Standard. Applications are prepared and lodged for you under Full Management.
Rent rises once in twelve months
A landlord may increase the rent no more than once in any twelve-month period, and only by serving the statutory notice with the required period. A tenant can refer the increase to Rent Service Scotland. We handle the review and the notice.
Deposits and registration
Deposits must be lodged with a Scottish Government approved scheme within 30 working days of the tenancy starting. Landlords must be registered with the local authority before letting. We do both, and will not begin marketing until registration is in hand.
Questions
Fees FAQs
- Do tenants pay any fees?
- No. Charging tenants any fee beyond rent and a refundable deposit is unlawful in Scotland and has been since 2012. Tenants pay us nothing.
- When is the Let Only fee payable?
- Once, on the day the tenancy begins. Nothing before it, and nothing again for as long as the tenant remains. If we do not let your property, the fee is not payable at all. Referencing every applicant is included in it, however many references a joint tenancy takes, and so is the inventory.
- What is the difference between Let Only and Full Management?
- Let Only ends on the day the tenancy begins: we find the tenant, reference them, draw up the tenancy, write the inventory and lodge the deposit, and from then on the property is yours to run. Full Management carries on from there: rent collected and paid over with a statement, arrears chased, repairs handled end to end, the safety certificates tracked, inspections with a written report, notices served, and an emergency line outside office hours.
- Is there anything to pay up front?
- No. We charge no upfront fees. There is no fee for instructing us, for marketing your property or for finding your tenant until the tenancy begins, and under Full Management our fees come out of rent we have collected. If we do not let your property, you pay us nothing. The Let Only fee falls due on the day the tenancy begins, and under Full Management the £200 + VAT letting fee comes out of the first month's rent. A safety certificate the property needs before it can be let is the contractor's own invoice and our flat fee to arrange, and only where you ask us to arrange it.
- Is there a renewal fee?
- Renewal is £200 + VAT, but it arises far less often than landlords expect. A Private Residential Tenancy is open-ended and does not renew, so the charge applies only where a genuinely new agreement is drawn up with the same tenant.
- What if I want to leave?
- One month's notice on either side, and no exit or transfer fee. We hand over the tenancy file, deposit scheme details and certificates, and we do not hold your paperwork hostage. Fees already earned on rent we collected remain payable; nothing is charged on rent collected after we stop acting.
- Who pays the charges on this page, me or the tenant?
- You do, every one of them. Charging a tenant for referencing, an inventory or a renewal is an unlawful premium in Scotland, and a tenant can recover it from the agent for five years afterwards. Every figure on this page is landlord-payable, which is exactly why it is published here rather than buried in a tenant's paperwork.
- When am I charged for works?
- You are not. Arranging a repair or a refurbishment carries no charge from us at any size: the contractor's invoice reaches you exactly as it was issued to us, and that is the whole cost. We take no mark-up, no commission and no percentage of the works. Safety certificates are the same invoice unchanged, plus the flat fee to arrange shown above.
- Is VAT added to your fees?
- Yes. Every fee of ours on this page is shown before VAT, and VAT at 20% is added to it: Let Only at £500 + VAT is £600, and Full Management at 10% + VAT is 12% of the rent. Your terms of business state both figures, and every statement and invoice shows the tax as its own amount. Our VAT registration number is GB 526818078. A contractor's invoice is passed on as it was issued, with whatever VAT the contractor charged.
- Do you charge a letting fee as well as the management fee?
- Under Full Management, yes: £200 + VAT each time we let the property, taken from the first month's rent of that tenancy. It covers finding the tenant: photography, advertising, viewings, referencing, the tenancy agreement, the inventory and the check-in. It is not charged if we do not let the property, and not on a tenancy that was already running when you came to us.
- Is there a minimum monthly fee?
- Not while the property is let: the percentage applies at every rent level, with no monthly floor beneath it. Between tenancies, while a property we manage stands empty, a vacant-property minimum of £200 + VAT a month applies, because an empty property still needs visiting, securing and giving contractors access to. It does not apply before your first tenant moves in.
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