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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has proposed changing guidance on mortgages and consumer credit repossessions so that consumer credit firms will be able to repossess goods and vehicles from 31 January 2021.

An amended plan to convert the empty floors above a KFC restaurant in central Glasgow into apartments has been submitted to Glasgow City Council. Nine flats are proposed in the vacant second and third floors and the new roof accommodation at 106 Renfield Street.

House prices and home sales activity in Scotland continued to rise last month, according to the December Residential Market Survey from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). However, respondents anticipate the latest lockdown restrictions, related economic challenges and the end

Audit Scotland has published its digital progress in local government report recommending that councils across Scotland should have a clear digital vision and strategy that sets out how digital transformation will deliver better outcomes for people. The report found that councils are at different st

A planning application has been lodged for the proposed development of 47 homes for affordable rent in Easterhouse.

Thousands of council homes in East Ayrshire are expected to benefit from a £154 million improvement plan over the next five years.

Few things went according to plan last year but 2020 was a good year for the construction of affordable homes across South Ayrshire.

Link Group has become the first Scottish investor in HACT’s social value roadmap. Launched in September 2020, the social value roadmap was developed by the UK Social Value in Housing Taskforce, which was composed of 17 organisations including leading social housing organisations, the Regulator

South Ayrshire Council has submitted plans to build 160 new homes located at Mainhold Road beside Ayrshire Racecourse. The homes will consist of a mix of bungalows, two-storey houses and flats as well as six-bedroom houses which can be divided into two properties if needed.

Communities across Scotland will face unavoidable and damaging consequences if local government does not receive a fair funding settlement in this year’s budget, COSLA has warned. COSLA said that the trend of recent settlements for local government needs to change because on top of existing pr

The second edition of Adrian Stalker‘s hotly-anticipated Evictions in Scotland has been published by Edinburgh University Press. At more than double the length of the 2007 first edition, the new edition states the law as at 31 May 2020.

Deprivation levels in Scotland are worsening to the point that nearly one in five people are now classed as being in poverty, according to a new report. In the 2020/21 edition of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's (JRF) annual report on the nature and scale of poverty across the UK, and how it af

East Ayrshire Housing staff have been praised for successfully achieving a Scottish Housing Quality Standard. The standard is for all of the council's properties where it was practically possible to achieve the standard.

McTaggart Group is to deliver up to 55 positions for young people across the central belt of Scotland after becoming one of the first Scottish construction companies to be announced as a confirmed provider of the UK Government’s Kickstart Scheme.

Over two-thirds of student renters (71%) in Scotland are concerned about their ability to pay rent with a quarter having been unable to pay rent (25%) and a third unable to pay bills (33%) during the pandemic, a new survey from NUS Scotland has found. These problems are likely to be exacerbated with