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Deacon Blue star Lorraine McIntosh has announced her support for Simon Community Scotland's Nightstop campaign which offers young people a safe place to spend the night in times of crisis. The singer has invited people in Glasgow to "open their homes and hearts" to vulnerable young pe

A new shared ownership model which will allow housing association tenants in England to buy a stake in their home for as little as £2,000 is to go ahead, housing secretary Robert Jenrick has confirmed. The UK government said a package of measures, which were initially announced over the summer

A new project director with extensive masterplanning and place-making experience has been appointed to drive delivery of the next phase of Aberdeen’s largest new community to the West of the city. Martin Dalziel, formerly of New Ingliston Ltd and Highland Properties Group Ltd, has over thirty

East Dunbartonshire Council has announced that it will hold a consultation to discuss its Local Development Plan for the area.

Plans to expand a coastal fishing village with 71 new homes have been submitted to Aberdeenshire Council. Gourdon-based Fotheringham Homes has applied for permission to build the new homes in Johnshaven.

Councillors have approved plans for 19 new homes in St Combs, Aberdeenshire. Claymore Homes was granted consent to build the High Street development, known as Millburn Rise, after Aberdeenshire Council voted in favour by seven votes to two.

The total amount of rent arrears on all council properties in Scotland has increased by 14% in a year as the number of council tenants in arrears increased by around 3%, official figures have revealed. Scottish Council Housing Income and Expenditure statistics for the year 2018/2019, published by Sc

Wheatley Group’s group procurement manager Laurie Carberry has been named as the new chair of the Scottish Procurement Alliance (SPA). During her four years with the housing group, Laurie oversaw the procurement of the largest social housing build programme in the UK. In addition to this, Laur

The start of construction of new affordable homes in Glenrothes has been marked by Judy Hamilton, councillor and convener of the community and housing services committee, as she performed the sod-cutting ceremony earlier this week. The new development is on the site of the former Alan Mclure House c

The police and courts will be given new powers to remove suspected domestic abusers from the homes of victims or others at risk, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced. The Scottish Government will introduce a bill to parliament which will create new protective orders to keep a suspected

Scotland recorded a 13% drop in deaths last winter and a 57% seasonal decrease in additional deaths compared to the previous year, new figures have shown.

A development of new homes in Maryhill is now complete and has sold out in record time.

Construction work on Scotland’s first dedicated luxury retirement village at Newton Mearns is to begin in the first quarter of next year. The £60 million self-contained development will be built on a 17-acre countryside setting overlooking the city and will be named ‘The Hills at W

The Highland Council has been awarded funding to deliver area based energy efficiency programmes in the region. The area based programmes aim to target fuel-poor areas and offer insulation measures, such as External Wall Insulation (EWI), Cavity and Loft Insulation.

Surveyor Tom Laurie talks about the many, but perhaps little known, exceptions that exist for Home Reports. Home Reports, now a wholly accepted part of Scotland’s residential property landscape, celebrated their tenth anniversary late last year. But, remarkably enough, there remains a signific