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New research from IPPR, supported by housing association Stonewater, has found that retrofitting the UK’s housing supply could save the average household £500 per year on their energy bills when the UK Government’s new energy price guarantee comes into effect in April 2023 –

House prices in Scotland continued to rise through the last quarter of 2022, but at the slowest rate since mid-2020 according to the December 2022 RICS UK Residential Survey.

After eight successful years at Loreburn Housing Association, CEO Lorraine Usher has announced her decision to step down from her role. Ms Usher, who became CEO in early 2015, will remain in position until the end of April with the recruitment process to appoint a successor beginning later this mont

Recognising the pressures short-term lets hosts face at this time, legislation has been laid to extend the deadline for applying for a licence by six months to 1 October 2023. The new deadline applies to anyone operating as a host before 1 October 2022. Anyone who started operating after that must h

A national residential rehabilitation service designed to support women and their children through recovery has been officially opened in Dundee.

The Scottish Government has announced an investment of almost £27 million into regeneration projects in disadvantaged and rural communities across the country. The latest round of funding from the Regeneration Capital Grant Fund (RCGF), delivered in partnership with COSLA and local authorities

Empty Ministry of Defence homes in Edinburgh are set to be utilised to help tackle the city's housing shortage. The City of Edinburgh Council is set to buy up to 78 surplus two- and three-bedroom homes on the Dreghorn estate.

Council tenants in Dundee who took part in the annual rent consultation this year have backed the lowest increase of the three options presented to them.

Family-run housebuilder Muir Homes has submitted a planning application to Fife Council to build much needed family homes to add to the development of a thriving community at Dalgety Bay.

The Blackwood Design Awards, a Dragons’ Den-style competition to recognise innovations and inventions that improve the lives of older and disabled people, has announced this year’s three winners. The successful shortlisted inventors joined together to showcase their entries before the wi

East Lothian Council has decided to decommission Eskgreen Care Home in Musselburgh in light of a paper highlighting extensive refurbishment works required at the facility. On 30 May 2022, the Care Inspectorate carried out a routine visit at Eskgreen Care Home. The resulting

Caledonia Housing Association (CHA) has unveiled its plans for a week-long, energy-saving advice programme for tenants.

The efforts of the Building Standards team at Aberdeen City Council to ensure that properties across the city present no risk to the public have been praised by councillors.

Initial plans have been submitted to add another 45 apartments to a consented residential development at Ocean Drive in Leith. The City of Edinburgh Council’s development management sub-committee voted in favour of a 338-apartment build-to-rent (BTR) project on a brownfield site

The Scottish Housing Regulator has today published its report on the outcome of its statutory intervention at Fairfield Housing Association. The intervention began in November 2018 when the Regulator used its statutory powers to appoint a manager and seven members to Fairfield’s governing