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Eamonn McGarvey Work to refurbish seven multi-storey tower blocks in Aberdeen is to start within weeks after Keepmoat was appointed to the £17.5 million project.

The Scottish Empty Homes Partnership recently released its annual report for the financial year just passed. There are a few headlines form the report that we are particularly excited about, writes Kristen Hubert at Shelter Scotland. These are all great successes that show improvements on where we w

Scottish house prices are up by more than 10 per cent since last year, according to a new report. The average cost of a home in May was £180,892 following a 10.3 per cent increase on the same month in 2014 — twice the annual growth seen in England and Wales.

Brian Logan Bield has been awarded funding that will enable it to introduce and boost initiatives that directly improve the lives of older people across Scotland particularly for those living with dementia.

The quality of care and support which Shelter Scotland provides to homeless and badly housed households has been highly commended by the Care Inspectorate. Shelter Scotland’s Housing Support Services, which provides a range of national housing support functions to those with complex needs, was pra

The cleared site for new Tayvallich homes Argyll Community Housing Association (ACHA) has started work on two 3-bedroom family homes for rent in the village of Tayvallich in Mid Argyll.

Plans to build over 1,000 homes as well as a community hub and a link road have been approved by North Lanarkshire Council. The plan which will see 1,040 new homes developed in the pleasant village of Glenboig was put to the local authority’s planning and transportation committee last week by Hami

West Whitlawburn Housing Co-operative (WWHC) is organising a charity football match to commemorate the second anniversary the passing of Phil Welsh MBE, a founder member of the housing co-operative and its first chairperson. The event is taking place on Sunday August 9th at the Toryglen Regional Foo

A Scottish charity is offering the chance for people to live in new build affordable homes in a community forest in Argyll. Kilfinan Community Forest Company (KCFC) is initially offering two homes and two self-build plots in a community-owned forest in Tighnabruaich with the hope of offering more in

Almost £1 million will be spent on upgrading works to 83 council houses across Falkirk. The work is expected to get underway over the summer and will involve replacing rendering and roofing at 36 properties in Bo’ness, 27 in Polmont and 20 Maddiston.

Shelter Scotland's Graeme Brown helps launch the national empty homes helpline The number of private empty homes brought back into use in Scotland last year has an estimated market value of around £93 million, according to the Scottish Empty Homes Partnership (SEHP).

Hillcrest Housing Association is to shortly begin work at their latest development in Dundee after awarding a contract to Marshall Construction. The Sinclair Street development will deliver 32 affordable homes for rent.

Plans have been submitted for phases four and five of Sanctuary Scotland’s £50 million transformation of Anderston in Glasgow. Designed by Collective Architecture, the proposals for 206 new build flats, with a mixed tenure of social rent, mid market rent and shared equity, will complete the overa

The former John Brown’s shipyard in Clydebank, famous for building some of the world’s greatest ships, is set to be unlocked for future development after an ambitious £15 million plan was signed. The deal will see essential infrastructure and ground works undertaken on the site, and more import

LaSalle Investment Management and developer Dandara have completed a deal that will deliver Scotland’s first large scale institutional private rented sector (PRS) scheme at a major site in Aberdeen. LaSalle has purchased Forbes Place for a price just under £60 million from Dandara and will retain