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Glasgow-based housebuilder Briar Homes is looking to develop an initial pipeline of 310 new highly efficient homes (including 66 affordable properties) after securing an initial £7.3 million funding package from Bank of Scotland and Housing Growth Partnership (HGP).

The tender is live for Scotland Excel’s New Build Residential Framework – the organisation’s largest construction framework that is forecast to be worth £1.5 billion over four years. Companies can now bid to join the second generation framework that will help councils and hou

A small grants scheme which has supported a range of projects across the Levenmouth area in recent years has been boosted by a further £100,000.

Taylor Wimpey East Scotland has confirmed that it has concluded a contract with East Lothian Council to deliver 28 affordable homes for social rent, which will form part of its Belhaven Way development in Dunbar.

Perth and Kinross Council’s scheme to buy back former council homes for affordable housing has resulted in the purchase of 49 new properties in the last year, against a target of 30. The new properties bought in 2023/24 are a valuable addition to the council’s social housing stock, provi

An Inverclyde councillor has been suspended for one month after he was found guilty of failing to declare an interest in a planning application for a major £350 million housing project at the former IBM Site in Spango Valley, Greenock.

A Local Development Plan (LDP) is being prepared by South Lanarkshire Council that will be shaped by the views and aspirations of communities.

Emulating the co-operative housing sectors in Canada and Scandinavia could help ease the UK’s housing crisis, according to a new paper out today. Canada’s co-op sector is three times bigger than the UK’s, and co-ops account for almost a quarter of Swedish homes.

An interactive tool that lets residents map out the community services and issues they care most about has been launched by the City of Edinburgh Council.

The number of homes coming onto the market for sale in Scotland increased at its strongest rate in three-and-a-half years in March according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Residential Market Survey.

The East Dunbartonshire Trusted Trader scheme is helping people ready to improve their home ensure they use a trader who can be trusted.

The latest episode of the Equality in Housing podcast, a collaboration between CaCHE and Housing Options Scotland, is now live.

The ownership of eight flats on the Isle of Bute has been transferred to Fyne Homes Housing Association. Known locally as The Wilkie Houses, the assets at Townhead in Rothesay were previously owned by the James John Wilkie Almhouses Trust.

Calvay Housing Association was sad to learn of the sudden death of committee member Chris Warwick in February. Chris joined the management committee in 2018 and served as treasurer since September 2023. He had previously held the role of secretary and had also served on the executive committee of Sh

The Scottish Housing Regulator is to visit 13 social landlords to discuss their Annual Assurance Statement. Each year by 31 October, every social landlord must prepare and publish an Annual Assurance Statement which confirms whether it meets Regulatory Standards and Requirements.