News

The importance of ongoing collaboration between Scotland’s home building sector and the Scottish Government was the focus of attention at the Homes for Scotland (HFS) Annual Lunch & Awards last Friday (20 May). At what is a critical time for the sector and Scotland generally, that was the

Property factoring business James Gibb has acquired the residential factoring division of Dundee-based J Reavley Factoring Limited. The acquisition will increase the number of properties currently under management at James Gibb by 1,400 units, taking the number to well over 52,000 units.

The developer behind the controversial demolition of a former Dundee jute mill has progressed plans to build new homes on the site. The former Wallace Craigie jute works, known locally as Halley’s Mill, on the city’s Broughty Ferry Road was razed to the ground after diggers moved on

Forth Ports has submitted a Proposal of Application Notice (PAN) to the City of Edinburgh Council for a mixed-use development on a 10-acre waterfront site at Leith. Named Harbour 31, the development has the aspiration to create a vibrant new neighbourhood for Leith including 700-800 residential

The Scottish Government has published responses to its consultation on the draft National Planning Framework 4 (NPF4).

Plans have been finalised for 119 homes for private sale at Ferry Village, Braehead.

Nearly one-third of private landlords who evicted tenants in order to sell the property had failed to sell the home more than a year later, according to new research from Generation Rent into Scottish tenancy reforms.

Perth & Kinross Council has confirmed a £700,000 investment in initiatives aimed at those most affected by the cost of living crisis.

North Ayrshire Council has approved plans to convert a former mental health drop-in centre in Stevenston into flats.

This week Irina Juodeike, Susan Turner, Noon Malik, and Marnie McVitie from Eildon Group travelled to Leith in Edinburgh to help out as part of ‘Eildon Makes a Difference’ at the Cyrenians Food Depot for their ‘Food is the First Step’ appeal. According to Cyrenians, 1 in 5 ad

Households and businesses are struggling to cope with the cost of living crisis and need urgent action from the UK Government, according to finance secretary Kate Forbes. With inflation reaching a 40 year high of 9% and forecast to rise higher, Ms Forbes has written to the Chancellor of the Excheque

Social Enterprise Scotland (SES) has announced the membership of the Transition Group tasked with overseeing the evolution to deliver a Single Enhanced Intermediary (SEI). SES is growing a strong, inclusive voice for social enterprise after being chosen by the Scottish Government to deliver the new

Professor Ken Gibb and Professor Alex Marsh have published a new briefing paper that provides examples of the range of contemporary international rent control or rent regulation practice as operated in the private rented sector (PRS), highlighting a small number of European examples in a little

In the context of a steadily ageing society and the continuing impetus to expand appropriate residential solutions in the community for older people, the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE) is pursuing a series of interlocked projects that consider different aspects of housing adap

The Scottish Housing Regulator has published the final of its quarterly dashboard reports that were introduced by the Social Housing Resilience Group in March 2020 to help understand the impact of the pandemic and where support was needed.