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Council leader Jenny Laing (centre) during the ‘Shaping Middlefield’ public engagement event A new £35 million regeneration project devised by residents is to transform one of Aberdeen’s most deprived areas.

Housing developer Lovell has started work to develop five new homes in Philpstun, West Lothian. The new homes being developed in The Avenue area are part of West Lothian Council's 1,000 new homes scheme.

A view of Lerwick where house prices have risen by 106 per cent in a decade The average house price in Scotland's seaside towns has grown by £348 per month since 2005, according to new data.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Rohini Sharma Joshi, equality, diversity & inclusion manager at Trust Housing Association with the Happy to Translate app Trust Housing Association has been recognised as a finalist at the prestigious Scottish Home Awards 2016 for ‘Housing Association of the

Ellie Hutchinson By Ellie Hutchinson, private renting project manager at Shelter Scotland

Dundee has been confirmed as the host of the country’s first gig to battle homelessness. The Musicians Against Homelessness event aims to raise funds for the homeless charity Crisis and boost up-and-coming bands with a marathon 12-hour show, The Courier has reported.

Aberdein Considine’s Bob Fraser and Scott Brown launch the firm’s new 360-degree property tours Technology used by Google to produce its Street View maps is being deployed in the Scottish property market to help househunters ‘walk around’ homes using their computer or smartphone.

Link Group Ltd has completed an affordable housing development of 14 new homes at Ayr Road in Newton Mearns. The properties were built by CALA Homes as part of a wider development, and consist of two-bedroom homes for social and mid market rent. The £1.7 million development secured £502,000 from t

Pamela Humphries (development manager), Elaine McHugh (head of housing solutions), Council leader Jim Logue and housing convener Barry McCulloch North Lanarkshire Council is moving forward with its next phase of new council houses which will see a further 282 modern homes built across 13 sites.

Plans to build 550 new homes in a village on the outskirts of Falkirk took a step forward this week. Land at Banknock was earmarked four years ago by developers for the house as well as a community centre, shops and a nature conservation area but the plans have been caught up in red tape.

Major changes to the tenancy laws in Scotland will give more security to tenants, but also produce hazards for landlords, write Lucy Harington and Louise McAlister from the Commercial Dispute Resolution Team at TLT LLP. The Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act will commence in stages later thi

Over a quarter (26 per cent) of people in Scotland aged 55 or over are considering or will consider downsizing in the future, while a further 10 per cent have already downsized, a new survey has found. The poll from YouGov was commissioned by retirement housebuilder McCarthy & Stone to highlight

Some of the Kingdom staff who attended the event (from left) Andy Walls, Dave Roy, Gordon Barclay, John Connelly, Alan Ford, Alex Wilson and Bob Murphy from Police Scotland With over 3,700 affordable homes to maintain across Fife and East Central Scotland and 260 individual clients benefitting from

Annual rent rises in Scotland are at a three-year low, although Edinburgh is bucking the trend with record price increases, the latest Scotland Buy-to-Let Index from Your Move has found. Average residential rents in Scotland have climbed 0.6 per cent in the twelve months to April 2016, in the slowes

Clackmannanshire Council is encouraging community groups to apply for grants from the £100,000 Community Development Fund. The initiative aims to help regenerate and improve the physical environment and community facilities in the region.