Homes For Scotland

A new report by the Scottish Government’s Housing Investment Taskforce has laid out an ambitious roadmap to boost confidence and unlock greater investment across Scotland’s housing sector.

With an estimated need for around 700 new planners over the next 10-15 years, sector body Homes for Scotland (HFS) secured five new 'Future Planners' bursaries totalling £25,000 to help attract talent from a variety of disciplines into this vital profession by assisting with course fees and li

For the second year running, and the third time in four years, Whiteburn has been named Home Builder of the Year (SME) at the prestigious Homes for Scotland Awards 2025. The award recognises Whiteburn’s ongoing dedication to delivering high-quality homes, thoughtfully designed communities, and

Link Group is celebrating a prestigious award win after its Dunbeg Phase 3 development in Oban was named Affordable Development of the Year – Large at this year’s Homes for Scotland Awards.  The award was announced at a ceremony last Friday, recognising the scale, quality and ambiti

Taylor Wimpey has been awarded the prestigious Home Builder of the Year in  the Large Builder category at the annual Homes for Scotland Awards Ceremony.

The winners of this year’s Homes for Scotland (HFS) awards have been announced at a special, upscaled event marking the organisation’s 25th anniversary. Showcasing the best in class from across the HFS membership, this year’s programme focused on customers, communities and the comm

Scottish homebuilder Cruden has collected two prestigious accolades at the Homes for Scotland Awards 2025, held on 30 May at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre. The event marked the 25th anniversary of the awards, which champion excellence within Scotland’s homebuilding industry.

Trade body Homes for Scotland (HFS) celebrates its 25th anniversary today with its largest ever Annual Lunch & Awards set to attract nearly 1,000 senior leaders and industry professionals in Edinburgh. The event comes at a pivotal time, just a year after the Scottish Parliament declared a nation

With today marking a year since the national housing emergency was declared, Homes for Scotland (HFS) is to undertake a consumer campaign to challenge public thinking and help to inform civic society on the need for new homes and the wide-ranging benefits they offer. Creative agency Muckle Media has

A national action plan must be developed to tackle the housing emergency to avoid the risk that the crisis “drifts on indefinitely”, according to a new report published today by a Scottish Parliament committee. A year on from the official declaration of the national housing emergency by

Scotland’s economic growth is being held back by a chronic shortage of housing, and urgent action is required to remove this barrier to investment and jobs, a new report from Prosper (Scottish Council for Development and Industry) has warned today. Drawing on insights from over 100 stakeholder

Stronger protections for tenants, helping deliver more affordable homes, and removing barriers on stalled building sites were all on the agenda for First Minister John Swinney as he set out his government's legislative programme at Holyrood yesterday, although sector bodies have warned the measures

With Scotland in the grip of a national housing emergency, George Clarke, best known for his work on the Channel 4 programmes The Home Show, The Restoration Man, George Clarke's Old House New Home, and George Clarke's Amazing Spaces, visited a housing site in Banchory in a bid to highlight the impor

Homes for Scotland (HFS) has announced a partnership with VELUX to secure an improved operating environment for the SME home builder sector, contributing to the growth and sustainability of this vital group which has seen a significant reduction in activity since 2017. In June 2024, HFS published it

Homes for Scotland (HFS) has welcomed a reduction in average decision timescales for major housing applications but warned that the determination times still far exceed the statutory period of 16 weeks. New planning application statistics published yesterday covering the period Q1 and Q2 for 20