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(from left to right) Annabelle Ewing MSP, minister for youth and women’s employment; Joanne Aitken, senior development worker; Lynne Dunn, co-ordinator, Fife Works Project and Bill Banks, chief executive, Kingdom Housing Association Annabelle Ewing, minister for youth & women’s employment, v

John Blackwood Scottish landlords met with senior UK government officials in London yesterday to urge them to rethink planned tax changes for private landlords.

Revised plans to transform part of Inverurie Loco Works into a hostel have been narrowly approved by councillors. Malcolm Allan Housebuilders first revealed plans to create two hostel style accommodation blocks, mainly for offshore workers, late last year.

John Swinney MSP The Scottish Government is threatening to block the Scotland Bill unless improvements are made to give “flexibility and fairness” over new powers devolved to Holyrood.

Vaughan Hart Employment in the Scottish construction industry increased by 9,000 to 176,000 during the three month period to June 2015, new figures have shown.

A social enterprise run by LinkLiving Ltd is celebrating three years of successfully supporting older people affected by social isolation in West Fife. RealLiving matches trained volunteers with vulnerable older people to provide person-centred befriending support in people’s homes and in their co

Inverness charity New Start Highland will welcome representatives of Scottish Churches Housing Action (SCHA) today to see the work done with homeless people in the area. SCHA board member Rev Douglas MacKeddie, deputy convener Brian Graham, and chief executive Alastair Cameron will visit the New Sta

Voluntary groups are being urged to bid for interest-free cash to help kick-start their regeneration plans. West Dunbartonshire Council is offering interest-free capital loans of up to £10,000 to neighbourhood organisations in the area ‒ and is one of the first local authorities in Scotland to la

East Lothian Council has evicted a Musselburgh tenant following a period of persistent anti social behaviour which caused considerable distress to neighbours. An application was made by the council to Edinburgh Sheriff Court after repeated incidents of excessive noise, large numbers of visitors caus

The Athletes Village was a successful example of off-site construction Many new homes of the future could be built in factories and delivered to site ready to be assembled if clarity and more detailed understanding on total costings confirm that the approach is competitive, a new report has conclude

A completed home in the Westercraigs development More than 1,000 affordable homes for rent with a total value of £146 million have now been delivered through the National Housing Trust initiative (NHT) over the last four years.

Michelle Mitchell A quarter of Scots with multiple sclerosis (MS) are cutting back on gas and electricity to get by because of cuts to their disability benefits, according to a new report.

Hjaltland Housing Association is seeking proposals for a “masterplan” to transform a hillside in the north of Lerwick into a development featuring hundreds of new homes. Earlier this year the association bought the North Staney Hill site from Shetland Charitable Trust’s property company Shetla

East Dunbartonshire Council is the only local authority in Scotland to have reported instances of housing tenancy fraud to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal and to have criminal proceedings instigated as a result of their investigations. The success of the council’s corporate debt team in tac

Edinburgh has been ranked as the best city for buy-to-let investors in the UK, according to new research. A study by property site Zoopla found that four out of five of the top most profitable locations for landlords can be found north of the border.