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Argyll Community Housing Association (ACHA) has been singled out for praise in the Scottish Parliament last week by Patrick Harvie MSP, Minister for Zero Carbon Buildings, Active Travel and Tenants’ Rights, as a social landlord that is leading the way on the installation of air source heat pum

Wheatley Homes South, a division of the Wheatley Group, has embarked on a significant project to revitalise the Dumfries and Galloway housing sector.

Springfield Properties plc has announced the sale of 45 acres of land for £4.2 million. The transaction, involving land equivalent to 190 plots, is part of Springfield's strategic effort to reduce its debt, which had risen to £67.7m by 31 May 2023, up from £38.1m the previous year.

Urban regeneration company Clyde Gateway has appointed Martin Joyce as its new executive director for regeneration to help boost further investment into the east end of Glasgow and Rutherglen. Mr Joyce joins the urban regeneration company having worked in a range of infrastructure and regeneration r

Bancon Group has posted a robust year of trading, marked by a 33% increase in its homes business and a 16% rise in overall turnover, for the year ended March 2023. The Aberdeenshire-based housebuilding and construction group reported turnover for the year was up £18 million on the previous yea

Edinburgh-based charity Bank of Scotland Foundation is offering its 178 current grantees a share of £2,406,465 to help with the significant impact of the cost of living crisis. The foundation’s grantees, and charities more generally, tell them that rising demand for services, rising core

Work on a new £4.8 million social housing development has started in Midlothian.

Ninety struggling households from across the Lothians, Edinburgh and Lanarkshire are £645,000 better off thanks to the hard work of a life-saving welfare benefits advice service. Melville Housing Association’s two dedicated welfare benefits advisers helped tenants claim benefits worth an

Late last week, local people in Craigmillar and Niddrie came together to switch on the community’s Christmas lights.

Glasgow City Council has been awarded – and accepted – £2.242 million for community projects in the city from the Scottish Government's Place Fund. The projects supported by this funding are:

People living in four of Dundee’s highest tower blocks have welcomed the start of a £1 million-plus lift replacement programme.

The tenant of a property on a country estate in the Scottish Borders has lost an appeal against the First-tier Tribunal’s decision not to make a determination of rent before the Upper Tribunal for Scotland, after the Tribunal found that it was temporarily not possible for the FTS to make such

Clackmannanshire Council expects just over £29 million in Scottish Government funding for housing investment over the next four years, according to a new report.

Residents and interested parties are being invited to have their say on the latest housing developments in the Garnock Valley. A total of 14 new homes will be built across four sites at Laburnum Avenue, Beith, and Newhouse Drive, Kilbirnie.

Charis has launched two Winter Warmth bundles to be distributed through its Charis Shop platform. The bundles contain a range of energy efficiency measures, heated wearables and soft furnishings that will help housing associations, charities, local authorities and advice centres keep families and in