LABOUR MSP Mercedes Villalba slammed the hoarding of Scotland’s land by the super-rich today, calling it “overwhelmingly feudal.”

The ownership of the bulk of the land by a few extremely wealthy individuals is worse than the monopolies in banking, supermarkets and energy, Ms Villalba told Holyrood.

Presenting her motion on deconcentrating land ownership to limit how much land the super-rich can own, she said: “Scotland’s land market is almost completely unregulated.