Empty Homes

New research revealing vacant council properties are on the rise around the UK has led to calls for them to be converted to provide 25,000 new homes.

The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) is calling for extra resources to help environmental health teams deal with the blight of empty homes as communities report rises in unoccupied housing, and landlords threaten to leave the market.

West Lothian Council is supporting a national initiative to bring empty homes in private ownership back into use.

Orkney Islands Council is working with Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks Transmission (SSEN-T) to help bring local empty homes back into use.

Housing Secretary Màiri McAllan has announced a new initiative to address the "unacceptable" number of empty homes across Scotland, while reaffirming the government's commitment to its housebuilding targets. Additional empty homes officers are being recruited to bring more privately owned hou

Communities across West Dunbartonshire have been able to see the benefits after 58 empty homes were brought back into use in the last two years.

Argyll and Bute Council’s housing services team has been crowned the winner of the 2025 Innovation Award at this year’s Empty Homes Network Awards (EHN) and has been highly commended in four other categories. The team won the Innovation Award for its project aimed at bringing properties

The Scottish Housing Regulator has today published its high-level report on the level of empty homes/voids Registered Social Landlords (RSLs) had at 28 February 2025. 

A Glasgow City Council committee has approved the compulsory purchase of two houses and two flats that will then be transferred to housing associations who will make them available as social housing. The approval of the compulsory purchase orders (CPOs) for the houses – at 14 Stewarton Road in

More than two in five adults in Scotland (43%) think their local authority is currently doing too little to tackle empty homes in their area, a new survey has found.

The Scottish Housing Regulator (SHR) has written to all Registered Social Landlords to request information on empty homes/voids on behalf of the Scottish Government. Up-to-date information will allow the government to better understand the potential contribution of bringing the properties back

The number of empty council properties (voids) in West Lothian is at its lowest level in several years. Currently, around 251 mainstream properties (1.7% of all council properties) in West Lothian are currently without a tenant. This is a significant reduction compared to the number of void properti

The owners of thousands of empty homes across Glasgow are being urged to sell or rent out their properties to help combat the city’s housing emergency.

The nominations deadline for the 2025 Scottish Empty Homes Awards has been extended to midday on Friday 31st January. 

Scottish Borders Council’s Executive Committee will consider changes to Council Tax charges on empty homes to encourage owners to bring them into use quicker amid the ongoing housing emergency.