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The Highland Council has launched a new scheme which will buy up properties in the area to prevent second-home owners letting out their homes on Airbnb.

Hadrian Real Estate has secured a £1.8 million loan from Broadwood Capital to help deliver its latest residential development at Lenzie in Glasgow. The development concerns a converted and extended former primary school in the centre of Lenzie.

Groups and organisations across Stirling are being offered the chance to lead and develop projects that will improve their local community with the launch of a new fund. Stirling Council is offering more than £600,000 funding in 2022/23 through the Place Based Investment Programme (PBIP), whic

High-rise residents on Glasgow's southside are being helped to get on their bikes thanks to a set of new ground floor cycle stores.

Miller Homes is to deliver 109 new homes to Fife this year with the launch of its Leven Mill development in Glenrothes.

An environmental service which is keeping communities in Dumfries and Galloway safe, clean and tidy is celebrating its first anniversary. The Neighbourhood Environmental Teams (NETs) service, run by Dumfries and Galloway Housing Partnership (DGHP), was launched in July last year.

Shona Robison, cabinet secretary for social justice, housing and local government, has visited Kingdom Housing Association’s development on the former Tullis Russell paper mill site in Glenrothes. The 85 affordable new homes, all for social rent, are part of a £14.6 million development w

Langstane Housing Association has launched its first electric pool car for employees to use, replacing the organisation’s current petrol vehicle.

River Clyde Homes, the Inverclyde based housing association, has been awarded the accolade of being fully compliant in Customer Services Excellence (CSE). After a rigorous three-day assessment River Clyde Homes is ‘fully compliant’ in all 57 elements of the CSE standard.

Finance minister Kate Forbes has joined her counterparts in Wales and Northern Ireland to call for further action to help households and businesses ahead of another increase in energy prices. In a joint letter to the new Chancellor of the Exchequer Nadhim Zahawi, Ministers say the focus should be on

Eildon Group has completed the construction of the first 11 new two- and three-bedroom homes at the High Buckholm site in Galashiels called Buckholm Burn Court.

An English housing association, Martlet Homes, has won an £8 million claim over defective cladding in the first High Court case of its kind since the Grenfell Tower fire. Martlet Homes, which is part of the Hyde Group, said that the decision would support other tenants and flat-owners in futur

As part of the collaborative approach towards reducing drug-related harm in the north-east of Scotland, community safety partners from Aberdeenshire Council, Aberdeenshire Health & Social Care Partnership and Police Scotland were involved in targeted activities in the Fraserburgh and Banff areas

With household bills rising at unprecedented rates and money worries at a high, a new online budget tool and advice page has been launched by North Lanarkshire Council to help residents get practical advice and support. A range of information is available on the council’s website to help local

Hillcrest has topped this year’s Inside Housing’s Biggest Builders survey for the number of social rent properties delivered as a percentage of total completions in Scotland, with an impressive 89% of new homes developed for social rent.