Land reform including measures to stabilise prices should be a key election pitch for the Scottish Liberal Democrats, a party conference will hear.
The call is made in a policy motion to be debated in a one-day session for Scottish party members meeting in Glasgow next month.
It suggests improved local accountability, a “fair” tax regime to end speculation and a system providing complete information about land ownership.
Scotland has the most concentrated landownership in the developed world, according to the policy paper.
“Land values across urban and rural Scotland are the subject of speculative forces that render houses, farms and forests unaffordable for too many people,” it states.
Delegates will be urged to support a Land Reform Bill which would seek to abolish Crown rights on land, handing control to local government instead.
It would extend community right-to-buy to urban land and reform the law of succession to provide children with legal rights to inherit land.
Historic “common good” land, often lost to communities in the regional government shake-up of the 1970s, should be returned at no cost.
The party will also consider calling on the UK Government to remove tax reliefs which allow land to be bought and sold “merely as a tax vehicle” with no regard for local communities.
Adopting the measures is “essential to creating a fairer Scottish society”, the policy motion suggests. The debate is part of the Scottish party conference on September 14 as part of the wider UK party conference.
Land reform expert Andy Wightman, who has written extensively on the subject, welcomed the discussion.
“I’m very encouraged by it,” he said.
“It shows that political parties are getting interested in this topic again. It’s been a long time since any political party has engaged in it.
“Looked at in the context of what else is going on in the field, it looks quite radical. In fact, it’s quite modest.”
“Attempts to tackle land speculation are particularly welcome,” he said.
“There’s a threat of a new housing bubble,” he continued. Land for housing is increasingly unaffordable. That’s one of the biggest issues. People can’t afford housing.”
Delegates at the party conference, including Holyrood’s five Lib Dem MSPs, will also be invited to debate taxpayer support for business and the removal of the centuries-old need for corroboration in Scots law.
They will hear speeches from MEP George Lyon and from UK Employment Relations and Consumer Affairs Minister Jo Swinson, the MP for East Dunbartonshire.