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Homeowners renting out their properties to visitors during events, festivals or sporting occasions could be exempted from a new licensing crackdown on short-term lets.

Southside Housing Association has appointed Paul McVey, director of Cloch Housing Association, to the post of chief executive. Paul will take up the new post in early September allowing a period of handover with the outgoing senior officer, Patrick Mc Grath who leaves at the end of September.

Power Circle, a social enterprise that supports individuals, organisations, and communities to establish smart, local energy systems has secured £120,000 from the Catalyst Fund to grow its team and respond to the increasing demand for its consultancy services. With energy price hikes affecting

Scottish Borders Council announced that its CEO Netta Meadows will be stepping down from her role at the council in September. Ms Meadows joined the council in March 2021, relocating from Somerset, and has led the council through some of the most challenging and unpredictable times with the COVID-19

Household energy bills face another increase to cover the costs of the suppliers which went bust in the last year, it will be reported today. It will cost households a combined £2.7billion to cover the transfer of 2.4million customers to a new supplier – around £94 each – acc

Persimmon Homes West Scotland has been granted planning permission to build 24 homes in north east Glasgow. The application called for the erection of terraced, semi-detached and detached timber frame properties between two and two-and-a-half storeys high on land between Gartloch Road and Findochty

Scottish Borders Housing Association (SBHA) has recruited Jasmyn Davidson as its new tenant engagement assistant. A psychology student at Edinburgh Napier University, Jasmyn is about to go into the 4th year of her degree and will work with SBHA and the Scottish Borders Tenants Organisation (SBTO) as

Construction, development and property services company the Wates Group has launched a new brand which it said will signal its commitment to net zero carbon and support those facing fuel poverty from unprecedented rising energy costs. The launch of Wates Retrofit comes two years after Wates Living S

Springfield Properties has today confirmed a deal to acquire the Scottish housebuilding business of Mactaggart & Mickel Group Ltd. Delivering housing for almost 100 years, family-owned Mactaggart & Mickel’s housebuilding division includes six live development sites and 11 future p

Scotland’s Council Tax Reduction scheme supported 462,670 households (compared to 496,580 in March 2021), new statistics have revealed.

Legislation to establish a National Care Service for Scotland (NCS) will ensure the best possible outcomes for people accessing care and support and end the ‘postcode lottery’ of care, the Scottish Government has said. The National Care Service Bill will make Scottish Ministers accountab

Energy regulator Ofgem has outlined the next steps in its plans to prevent the kind of energy supplier failures seen last year and to better protect consumers’ money if they do fail. The plans set out tough new measures to improve the financial health of energy suppliers meaning they can stand

An inspiring pensioner saddled up and led a sponsored motorbike ride around her hometown at the weekend, crossing a big item off her bucket list. 91-year-old Margaret Sneddon, a resident at Bield’s Crosshill Gardens development, fulfilled a lifelong dream of riding on the back of a motorcycle

Keppie Design has lodged detailed plans for 55 flats for social rent at the site of a former Glasgow car dealership. Working with Southside Housing Association, AS Homes (Scotland) Ltd wants to build new homes at Arnold Clark’s Vauxhall showroom and service facility on Pollokshaws Ro

Research conducted by Propertymark into the shrinking private rented sector has been raised in the Scottish Parliament during a debate on the implications of the Coronavirus (Recovery and Reform) Bill. Propertymark recently surveyed over 400 letting agents across the UK.