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Nicola Barclay Homes for Scotland has welcomed new figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) showing more loans advanced to first-time buyers in Scotland during the third quarter of 2016 than any other since 2007.

Judith Sutherland, Helen Gauld and Ronnie Boyle Langstane Housing Association has been announced as an award winner at the 2016 TPAS Scotland awards for the Tenant Participation Champion of the Year 2016: Organisation and a Langstane tenant was runner up for the Individual Tenant/Resident award.

Lintel Trust, part of the Link group of social enterprises, held a successful Digital Participation event with support from ng homes and Queens Cross Housing Association.

TPAS Scotland dished out their National Good Practice Awards, sponsored by Fife Council and supported by the Scottish Government, at a celebration Gala dinner in St Andrews. The awards ceremony was held at the Fairmont Hotel on Friday during TPAS Scotland's annual conference.

Cloch Housing Association has begun work on a £1 million project to upgrade 36 flats in Aberfoyle Road Greenock in conjunction with Everwarm. The refurbishment of the three blocks of flats mainly involves insulation improvements, including the rendering and re-roofing of the blocks and enhancements

Ore Valley Housing Association (OVHA) has closed a deal with the European Energy Efficiency Fund (eeef) on a £4.6 million project to develop wind turbines and replace 200 heating systems for OVHA homes. This is eeef’s first community based transaction within the UK and the result of a four-year l

Plans have been unveiled to invest £163 million into building affordable homes in the Scottish Borders. The new five-year Strategic Housing Investment Plan (SHIP) will be discussed at a Scottish Borders Council meeting on Tuesday, 29 November.

Housing and care provider Sanctuary Group has welcomed the Autumn Statement by announcing 30,000 new homes to be built in England and Scotland by 2026.

Philip Hammond Chancellor Philip Hammond has announced an £800 million increase in capital spending for Scotland over the next five years.

The Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) has highlighted that 241,000 more tenants in Scotland will be affected by the announcement that all social housing tenants on Universal Credit will be brought under the new Local Housing Allowance (LHA) cap when it is introduced in 2019. Ministe

Stephen Herriot Continuing our series of Just A Minute profiles is Stephen Herriot, head of operations at PfH Scotland.

Philip Hammond Chancellor Philip Hammond is to unveil a £1.4 billion investment in affordable housing and introduce measures to ban letting agents from charging upfront fees as he unveils the UK government’s Autumn Statement later today.

Plans have been submitted to build 15 new homes at a vacant Glasgow hospital site for Yoker Housing Association. Grant Murray Architects have lodged proposals for bungalows and two storey cottage flats at the former Blawarthill Hospital in the Knightswood area of the city.

Cunninghame Housing Association, working in partnership with East Ayrshire Council and the Scottish Government, held an official ceremony yesterday to mark the progress achieved to date on the site of the new build development at Hill Street in Kilmarnock. The event was attended by Kevin Stewart MSP

Small housing developers in Scotland are optimistic about the numbers of homes they aim to deliver over the next five years but have expressed frustration over the “myriad of obstacles and barriers” that they expect to face, according to a new survey. The findings of the poll, which explored the