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Westpoint Homes has sealed a £3.2 million loan from Secure Trust Bank (STB) Real Estate Finance to refinance 12 apartments and four townhouses across two residential developments in Scotland.

Places for People has entered discussions with Elim Housing over plans for its 900 homes across Bristol and Gloucestershire to join the Places for People Group later this year.

Campion Homes and Kingdom Housing Association are among the local organisations to lend their support to a race across the iconic Forth Road Bridge this weekend. The Pitreavie AAC Forth Road Bridge 10K Race will be run on Sunday, 24th August and has been helped to success by a very generous three-wa

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,

Average energy arrears among people seeking debt advice from StepChange Scotland have surged by 42% year on year, leaping from £2,464 in the first half of 2024 to £3,499 in the first half of 2025. This sharp increase raises serious concerns about the ability of households to heat their h

First Minister John Swinney paid a visit to An Allt Dubh to witness the progress of the housing project firsthand as part of his trip to the Outer Hebrides. The development, managed by Hebridean Housing Partnership (HHP) and constructed by Calmax Construction Ltd, is currently nearing completion of

More than £9 million in grants is being awarded to 31 charities and community groups across England, Scotland and Wales in the eleventh round of the Ofgem Energy Redress Scheme.

£500,000 has been awarded to five Community Climate Action Hubs in Scotland’s Central Belt. Funding will support the ongoing work of the Forth Valley, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee and East Dunbartonshire climate hubs to enable local communities to tackle climate change and its impacts.

A Glasgow schoolgirl who designed a solar-powered heated blanket that aims to help rough sleepers has been named one of the first ever Time magazine Girls of the Year. Rebecca Young, now 13 and a pupil at Kelvinside Academy, has been included in the inaugural list honouring 10 young people from

Hamilton-based principal contractor Procast Group has won a significant lot on a £980 million national retrofit framework. The firm has been awarded Lot 13 on the Greater Manchester Combined Authority Net Zero Housing Retrofit Framework Agreement.

Preventative tenancy sustainment work is now more important than ever for community-based housing associations, due to the financial and other pressures facing people, according to a new report.

Persimmon Homes East Scotland has donated £3,000 to Start Up Stirling, a charity running eight weekly foodbanks across the Stirling Council area. The donation was presented by Kevin Ferris, operations director, during the company’s Community Mental Health Day event at the Brucefields dev

New figures show that 30,729 households in England have received a Section 21 or ‘no-fault’ eviction notice since last July. The figures from the Ministry of Justice also show that 7,270 households in England were served with a Section 21 or a ‘no-fault’ eviction notice betwe

Rural communities across Scotland are in line for an economic boost in the wake of a new £50 million investment in Highland Broadband’s ultra-fast broadband network. Scotland’s Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes is set to unveil the new capital secured by the Edinburgh and Inverness

East Kilbride Housing Association (EKHA) has become the first housing association in Scotland to be awarded the National Green Standard for excellence in Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) action. Devised by IVARTY Consulting, the National Green Standard's ESG governance framework is align