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BBC Alba's European current affairs programme Eòrpa has visited Caithness and Sutherland to find out about the impact fuel poverty has on rural Scotland. Around 42% of households in rural Scotland are living in fuel poverty, which is defined as when a person needs to spend more than 10%

Private rental sector and build to rent residential and urban regeneration specialist Sigma Capital Group has strengthened its team with four new appointments across Manchester, London and Edinburgh. Following Sigma’s acquisition by pan-European private equity specialist PineBridge Benson Elli

Homelessness charity Cyrenians is launching this year’s Winter Appeal with its first-ever TV advert.

Places for People has unveiled its new four-bedroom detached show home at Tornagrain, the newest town in the Highlands and located only eight miles east of Inverness.

With just two months to go until new fire safety legislation comes into effect, influential trade association SELECT is reminding homeowners to ensure they have compliant heat, smoke and carbon monoxide (CO) alarms installed. The campaigning body for the electrical industry in Scotland says it&rsquo

A £1,000 donation from the CALA Homes community bursary initiative has supported Aberdeenshire North Foodbank with a regional initiative that will help provide local families with the food, equipment and skills to prepare healthy meals. The scheme is running across the foodbank’s five Ab

As part of its ongoing commitment to working in partnership with local communities, Taylor Wimpey East Scotland has recently donated funding to Cramond Playgroup to cover some of its additional costs linked to the ongoing health emergency. The funding includes providing parents access to a digital p

An estimated 256 people died while experiencing homelessness in Scotland in 2020, according to new figures published by National Records of Scotland, with more than half of the deaths being drug-related.

A planning application has been submitted for 45 apartments across two blocks in Govan for Elderpark Housing Association. 

Listed housebuilder Springfield Properties has agreed a conditional acquisition of Inverness-based housebuilder Tulloch Homes for a net consideration of £56.4 million. Springfield’s third acquisition since joining the market in 2017, the directors believe the move will significantly enha

Osprey Housing has developed a new relationship working together with a local housebuilder for the first time to create six ‘tenure blind’ homes as part of a new south Aberdeenshire development. The properties form part of Fotheringham Homes’ Parklands estate in the village of Mary

The Scottish Housing Regulator (SHR) has published a summary of the risks that it will focus on in its next annual risk assessment.

Councillors have gone against the recommendation of planners and rejected an application for 424 new build-to-rent homes in Glasgow’s West End.

The Salvation Army is calling on the Scottish Government to give councils more funding to stop temporary accommodation from being used as a permanent solution. New research by the charity has revealed that the number of homeless people trapped in places like bed and breakfasts has risen in half of S

North Lanarkshire Council has issued its first yearly new housing supply update highlighting progress, targets set and challenges faced, as the council delivers its plans for 5,000 new homes by 2035.