Jennifer Campbell, a property professional in the rural services division of DM Hall Chartered Surveyors, highlights concerns over a compulsory purchase reform consultation that suggests proposed new council powers could trump age-old property rights. It would be a struggle to find a property profes
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Rural Stirling Housing Association has unveiled 11 new homes in the Stirlingshire village of Killearn. The properties represent Rural Stirling Housing Association’s “ambitious and enduring” work to keep on building affordable homes for rent and low cost ownership.
Hundreds of people from all over Scotland will take part in a wide variety of local events over the next fortnight to celebrate community ownership of land and buildings. Organised by Community Land Scotland and developed initially from Community Land Week, the Community Land Festival starts this we
A £38 million purpose-built student accommodation scheme at 292 St Vincent Street, Glasgow, has officially topped out, marking a major milestone in the delivery of 321 studio apartments in the city centre. St Vincent Studios is being delivered by GRAHAM, on behalf of Artisan Real Estate and Ho
One in four people in Scotland (25%) has either been homeless themselves or had a close friend or family member who has been homeless, new polling from Ipsos has found.
Ahead of the 1 October energy price cap rise, Kingdom Group chief executive Tom Barclay outlines the steps required to address the troubling increase in fuel poverty across Scotland. The 2% rise in energy bills from October couldn't come at a worse time. With 861,000 Scottish households already stru
Hebridean Housing Partnership (HHP) has announced a change in leadership following its 19th Annual General Meeting on Wednesday, 3 September 2025. At a board meeting after the AGM, Calum Mackay was elected as the new HHP Chair, succeeding Gordon Macleod. Helen Mackenzie was appointed vice chair, and
Jackie Baillie MSP, deputy leader of the Scottish Labour Party, has visited Persimmon Homes’ The Hawthorns development in Dumbarton to see first-hand the company’s work in delivering new energy-efficient homes for the local community. During the visit, Dame Jackie officially opened the d
The topical issues of ventilation and indoor air quality will be the central themes of this year’s SELECT Professionals’ Day, as senior construction leaders gather at the V&A Dundee on 18 September 2025 to discuss the latest developments shaping the built environment. The free event,
Scottish charity Scarf is celebrating a major milestone this year – 40 years of delivering trusted, free energy efficiency advice and working at the front lines of the fight against fuel poverty. Since 1985, Scarf has supported hundreds of thousands of households across Scotland to stay warm,
Following the launch of funding for new homelessness prevention pilots, Beth Reid, a senior policy officer at Crisis Scotland, sets out what is required from the pilots to help shape measures in the Housing Bill.
A new advice service has launched to improve support for people with sensory loss across the Forth Valley, aiming to make it easier for those with hearing or sight loss to access guidance on issues such as debt and benefits. The Forth Valley CAB Sensory Loss Advice Service (SLAS) is a collaborative
An architect has reported Glasgow City Council to Police Scotland, alleging that the local authority failed in its legal responsibility to maintain a derelict tenement in Pollokshields that collapsed over the weekend. The sandstone tenement, a category B listed building located at the corner of Kenm
Empty and second homes are not the answer to Scottish housing shortages, according to property firm DJ Alexander Ltd. The lettings and estate agency in Scotland said that the announcement by Housing secretary, Mairi McAllan, that she was acting to prevent “unacceptable” levels of empty h
Scotland’s Housing Network (SHN) has released early insights into the 2024/25 Charter performance dataset. The release came on Tuesday 3 May—just 72 hours after the deadline for landlords to submit their Annual Returns on the Charter to the Scottish Housing Regulator.