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Scotland’s housing market ended 2024 with prices and enquiries rising, according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Residential Market Survey, and surveyors remain optimistic on the outlook, with prices and sales anticipated to increase through early parts of 2025.

The highest ever number of Perth & Kinross Council tenants have voiced their opinions on the level of rent they pay. Following a consultation that gathered over 3,000 responses, a 6% rent increase is being recommended for 2025/26 reflecting tenants' views. This proposal will be considered at the

Orkney Islands Council and the local Warmworks team have been helping make local homes cosier at a record pace in recent months, with funding awarded to the county by the Scottish Government all but spoken for just over halfway through the project year.

Community, sports and voluntary groups across Inverclyde can now apply for financial assistance from the council. Applications are now being accepted for the second round of the Community Grants Fund with £6,000 left in the pot.

Inverclyde Council chief executive Louise Long MBE has announced she is leaving the local authority after eight years to join NHS Lanarkshire. Ms Long will take up her new role on 5 May 2025.

Provost Kenneth Duffy visited a group of elderly tenants in Kerr Grieve Court Retirement Complex, Motherwell last month to see how they are taking advantage of their new digital skills.

Ground clearance has officially started on a major mixed-use regeneration development around Elgin’s South Street, marking a key milestone in this transformative development. 

East Lothian Council is holding a ‘key amnesty’ throughout January when council tenants breaking the law by subletting their council property have the chance to hand their keys back in order to avoid legal action.

Dundee City Council could press ahead with plans to improve access to housing and boost regeneration in the city centre after the UK Government provided clarity on a previous commitment that the city will receive its full payment of £20 million in the 2025/26 financial year through the Communi

Council tenants in Dundee have backed the lowest proposed increase of the three options presented to them in the annual rent consultation.

Following the recent completion of two major packages of improvement works in 2024, Arran’s largest social housing provider Trust Housing Association has now announced a further phase of investment to follow this year.

Langstane Housing Association has been recognised as a commended business in the prestigious Housing Technology Awards for the category of IT Team of the Year.

A bid to deliver new homes on a former hospital site in Dundee has been allowed to proceed by the Scottish Government. NHS Tayside had a planning in principle application to convert the land at Royal Liff Hospital into residential use and build up to 58 homes refused by Dundee City Council last

Housebuilder Persimmon has predicted that its annual profits will be at the top end of forecasts but warned that buyer confidence was vulnerable to uncertainty over interest rate cuts.

The average price of a property in Scotland in November 2024 increased by 4.7% to reach £195,000 when compared to 12 months earlier but has slightly fallen when compared to the previous month, the latest House Price Index (HPI) for Scotland has shown. Compared to October, house prices in Scotl