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The UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE) has published a large-scale international evidence review of rent control, incorporating both economics and wider social sciences literature from 2000 to 2020.

Build to Rent (BTR) housing provider Sigma Capital has reached a significant milestone with its first development in Scotland underway under its private rental brand Simple Life.

Knight Property Group has lodged plans to convert an empty Aberdeen office building into affordable homes after failing to rent or sell the building. The firm wants to deliver 26 one-bedroom affordable apartments on the upper floors of the four-storey City Point building on Chapel Str

Construction workers at a Glasgow housing development had an unusual shock when they dug up bones, a skull and wooden coffins last week. The grim discovery of the human remains occurred at the site in Orr Street, Calton, on Tuesday morning.

A reclaiming motion by Stewart Milne Group against a decision that its former employee was entitled to bonus payments after he was made redundant has been refused by the Inner House of the Court of Session.

Whiteburn Projects' Caerlee Mill development in Innerleithen has been awarded the prestigious Placemaking Design Award in the 2022 Scottish Borders Design Awards. The awards ceremony was held in the Borders Distillery in Hawick on February 23.

Fife Council has agreed a one-year rent increase of 2.5% for council houses from April 2022 – adding just £1.91 a week to the average rent cost. The same increase will apply to service charges, garages, lock-ups and temporary accommodation.

There is just over one week left to submit comments on the Highland Council & the Cairngorm National Park Authority proposal to designate Ward 20: Badenoch & Strathspey as a Short-Term Let Control Area.

East Dunbartonshire Council has agreed a £20.82 million housing capital budget for 2022/23 at its Special Council Meeting last week.

An international artist with a huge social media following has created a striking new mural to promote breastfeeding in Inverclyde.

The Gannochy Trust’s Lifetime Neighbourhood in Perth, designed by Glasgow architecture firm Anderson Bell + Christie, has won the Most Innovative Affordable Housing Scheme category at the Housing Digital Innovation Awards.

A budget designed to support residents through the cost-of-living crisis and invest in local communities has been set by the City of Edinburgh Council.

Views are being sought on plans to improve support for Scotland’s community of unpaid carers through the introduction of a new benefit. Under Scottish Government proposals, Scottish Carer’s Assistance will replace Carer’s Allowance, currently delivered by the Department of Work and

North Ayrshire Council is developing a new Community Participation strategy with an aim to encourage more people to take part in local democracy and to increase community involvement in local decision-making. Presented at a meeting of Cabinet on the 22 February, the initial proposal for a new Commun

Midlothian Council’s £17 million project to build new homes and a care facility on the old Dalkeith High School site is on budget and on track to finish at the end of 2022. The project is among the council’s most ambitious capital programme ever, which is seeing record investment o