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Designer Corien Staels with Blackwood's Belses Gardens tenant Peter McWilliams Residents at a Glasgow care home have been among some of the first to try out and provide invaluable feedback on a unique and innovative invention for wheelchair users.

Household essentials that help make a house a home are being provided to young homeless people in Scotland who are overcoming significant challenges and taking up their first tenancies. Starter packs containing the basics like curtains, bedding, pots and pans, towels and cleaning items are being pro

The average price of a house in Scotland rose by 4.6 per cent in June compared to last year, according to statistics from Registers of Scotland. The latest figures from the UK house price index (UK HPI) showed prices have risen to £143,282, 2.7 per cent higher than May.

Plans to build almost 100 homes at Park Quadrant in the West End of Glasgow have been given the green light. Expresso Property intends to create 98 flats at the A-listed Victorian development overlooking Kelvingrove park.

A pre-planning application for almost 50 homes in Cairnbulg has been submitted to Aberdeenshire Council. Claymore Homes are proposing a 49 house development and will hold a public consultation in the village and meet with the community council before submitting a full planning application by October

Ida Taylor Kingdom Housing Association’s care and repair service, which provides independent advice and assistance to help older homeowners as well as a Disability Support Service, has recorded satisfaction levels of 98 per cent for its work with disabled people.

Ellie Hutchinson By Ellie Hutchinson, private renting project manager at Shelter Scotland

North Lanarkshire Council has unveiled plans to build a further 1,000 new council homes to help tackle its housing waiting list. The local authority is set to approve the £160 million development project which will add to the 800 new properties to which the authority has already committed over the

Support services organisation Cair Scotland has entered into formal discussions with a view to becoming part of the Hillcrest Group. Cair Scotland currently works in partnership with local authorities and NHS boards to offer intensive support programmes to some of Scotland’s most vulnerable young

Jenny Laing Councillors in Aberdeen have agreed to progress plans for an arms-length external organisation (ALEO) to manage all the local authority’s energy-related activity.

Gavin Currie Bancon Construction is to build 80 affordable homes for Aberdeen City Council.

Thousands of performers and festival goers at future Edinburgh Festivals could struggle to find a place to stay or face higher costs for accommodation if planned reforms to private rented housing come into effect in Scotland, a landlord group has warned. The National Landlords Association (NLA) said

Care provided to vulnerable people in their own homes in Scotland is at “breaking point” as a result of cuts, according to a new report by Unison. A survey of home care workers by the trade union found that four in five said they believe the service has been affected by budget cuts or privatisat

The City of Edinburgh Council’s development management committee has given the green light to a £500 million masterplan which proposes the construction of more than 2,000 new homes at Edinburgh Marina at Granton. Following the council’s decision in principle last December to grant permission fo

Research by a group of London housing association’s has found that the ‘bedroom tax’ has failed in its objective to free up larger social homes in the city. Introduced in 2013, the UK government’s Social Rented Sector Size Criteria (SRSSC), more commonly known as the bedroom tax, saw househo