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The gap in costs between buying and renting in Scotland has continued to widen with first-time buyers now saving £31,000 when purchasing their own home, according to new research. An annual study from Bank of Scotland found that the average monthly costs associated with buying a three-bedroom house

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Cadder Housing Association is to invest £5.6 million to deliver up to 50 new homes at a former school site in Glasgow. Contractor McTaggart Construction is already on site at the new development, which will include a mix of flats and terraced houses.

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Douglas Spowart, relationship director, social housing & commercial real estate, Bank of Scotland and Margaret Turner, chairperson of Forth Housing Association Forth Housing Association (FHA) has announced a £13 million, three-year plan to build 130 new homes, with support from the Scottish Gov

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Helen Graham, chair at Hawthorn Housing Co-operative and Amanda Dorel, head of SME real estate for Bank of Scotland Hawthorn Housing Co-operative is to build 48 new homes in Possilpark after securing a £2 million funding package from Bank of Scotland.

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Stuart Nicholson, loan investments director at Scottish Widows, LAR chairman Andrew Robertson, housing minister Kevin Stewart and Alan Brennan, relationship director at Bank of Scotland Commercial Real Estate LAR Housing Trust has secured £65 million of funding to boost its portfolio of mid-market

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Govan Law Centre has been given £100,000 from Bank of Scotland Foundation to launch a new initiative aimed at helping prevent homelessness. The charity was one of 46 third sector organisations to share grants worth more than £830,000 after successfully applying for funding through Bank of Scotland

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First Minister Nicola Sturgeon visits GHA tenant Marilyn Cunningham at her new home, alongside GHA chair Bernadette Hewitt (right) First Minister Nicola Sturgeon visited tenants of Glasgow’s latest affordable homes development as Wheatley Group announced it had secured a further £65 million of pr

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Thirty-two years since Neighbours was first aired on Australian TV, new research into how sociable Scots are with those living nearest in the neighbourhood has found we don’t quite live up to the lovable likes of Harold Bishop. According to Bank of Scotland’s How Scotland Lives research, almost

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Scotland’s potential ‘Mortgage Freedom Day’, the date when the average new borrower will have paid off their annual mortgage amount if all their earnings from January 1 are devoted to mortgage payments alone, is two days later than it was last year. Based on the average Scottish annual mortgag

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New research from Bank of Scotland has concluded that first-time buyers in Scotland are on average £860 a year better off than those who rent. According to the bank’s Buying versus Renting Review, the average monthly costs (including mortgage payments) associated with buying a three-bedroom house

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Kirkwood Homes managing director Colin Crombie (left) and Graham Fiddes BOS relationship manager in front of a Kirkwood site Aberdeen-based housebuilder Kirkwood Homes has announced plans to acquire six new sites in 2017 as it expands its operations to Inverness and Dundee.

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Rising house prices have driven a deterioration in home affordability in Scottish cities for a third consecutive year, according to a Bank of Scotland report. The bank’s Affordable Cities Review found that the average Scottish city house price has risen by three per cent, from £176,009 in 2015 to

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