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Glenn Allison Stewart Milne Group has secured a £185 million banking facility to pursue its long-term strategy of focussed growth and geographical expansion.

Cruden's King's View development in North Toryglen, Glasgow Construction and residential development business Cruden Group has recorded its seventeenth consecutive year of profitable trading after announcing an increase in turnover, profit and home sales.

Richard Blanco More than a third of landlords in Scotland’s private rented sector think that leaving the EU will have a negative impact on their ability to attract tenants in the future, according to a new survey.

Glasgow-based social enterprise and letting agency Homes for Good has been shortlisted for five annual business and professional awards this year in recognition of its ongoing commitment to ethics, social change and tenants’ wellbeing. Homes for Good has been trading since March 2013 and currently

Virgin Media has announced plans to connect an additional 360,000 homes and businesses in Scotland to its fibre optic network by the end of 2019, as part of its £3 billion Project Lightning network expansion across the UK. The firm’s network currently reaches one million premises in Scotland and

Council leader Frank McAveety detailed the report's six recommendations Glasgow City Council has called on the Scottish and UK governments to transfer surplus land to the council for major housing building programmes as part of a range of measures to help the city overcome the issues created by Brit

The GMB has called for a “massive” housebuilding programme to get underway “without delay” after a report by the union found that workers on average earnings in Scotland are priced out of the housing market in 21 out of 32 local authority areas. Published yesterday, the report shows current

Link Group has been awarded an additional £40,715 to extend its Welfare Reform project until March 2017. The initiative is one of over 100 projects funded as part of the Scottish Legal Aid Board’s (SLAB) Making Advice Work (MAW) programme, which has gained an extra £6 million from the Scottish G

A modernised website has been launched by the Glasgow and West of Scotland Forum of Housing Associations (GWSF). Forum chair Peter Howden said the new site gives GWSF the ability to make further adaptations in the future if required.

The Scottish Housing and Support Conference (SHASC) is a welcome fixture in the housing and support conference calendar. 2016 marks the 25th anniversary of the first SHASC and this year’s event, Your Community, Your Future, will happen on Wednesday 26th October at its longstanding home, the Edinbu

Persimmon Homes is in talks over a potential project to deliver up to 200 new houses in Wormit. The firm is in discussions with Fife Council over the proposed development on the southern edge of the village.

Keith Brown A fund which helps a wide range of projects to support veterans including employability, housing, befriending and wellbeing has been given a £600,000 boost.

An intrepid team of six ‘athletes’ from Melville Housing Association have smashed their charity fundraising target to raise almost £1500 at the Great Scottish Run. Neil Edgar, Dan Hughes, Caroline Langton, Stacey McNealis, Iain Ross and Martin Sloan dug out their lycra and trainers (some for th

Bield is looking for a volunteer befriender to support an older person who lives in Donaldson Court, a Very Sheltered Housing Development in Leith. Volunteer befrienders help service users who feel isolated or who are unable to get out very easily on their own by giving their time on a one-to-one ba

The BBC Good Food Show Scotland returns to the SECC in Glasgow for the 10th year from November 4-6 and to celebrate Scottish Housing News is offering free tickets to the event. The event promises to be a celebration of regional flavours with top quality exhibitors from across the country, including