Homes For Scotland

Building on the theme of its Homes Build Futures public campaign, sector body Homes for Scotland (HFS) has announced the shortlist for its 2026 awards programme.  With best practice examples spanning the length and breadth of the country, the awards highlight the vast contribution home building

Scotland's housing sector has reacted with alarm to the Scottish Government's latest quarterly statistics, which show a continued and significant decline in housebuilding across all tenures in the 12 months to December 2025. The figures reveal 17,336 homes were completed, a 13% annual fall, while ne

Cruden Homes has retained its prestigious five-star housebuilder rating in the latest independent customer satisfaction survey run by the Home Builders Federation (HBF) in partnership with Homes for Scotland.

Scotland’s housing emergency is set to develop into catastrophic proportions unless the Scottish Government acts now to intervene effectively, according to a new report from sector body Homes for Scotland (HFS). Following rigorous analysis of local authority published housing land audits (whic

Homes for Scotland has unveiled the shortlist for its annual awards, which celebrate excellence across the country’s homebuilding industry. This year’s programme builds on the theme of the trade body's public campaign, with many of its members demonstrating how 'Homes Build Futures' for

Scotland’s housing bodies have given a broadly positive but pointedly pragmatic response to the First Minister’s plan to create More Homes Scotland, a new national housing agency intended to accelerate delivery across all tenures.

A broad coalition of Scottish business and industry organisations has published a joint manifesto setting out a shared economic mandate for the next Scottish Parliament, urging all political parties to prioritise competitiveness, infrastructure delivery and skills as the foundations of sustainable g

More than £4 billion of public investment will support the delivery of 36,000 additional affordable homes over the next four years, finance secretary Shona Robison confirmed as she delivered the Scottish Government’s final budget before May’s election. Unveiling the 2026/27 spendin

The Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) has called for urgent action to arrest a collapse in housebuilding after figures showed the lowest number of social homes beginning construction on record.  

New planning application statistics have shown a worrying 11% decrease in the number of local housing applications, highlighting the challenging operational environment of Scotland’s SME home builders, Homes for Scotland (HFS) has warned. According to the statistics, the number of local develo

Construction, infrastructure, property and support services business Robertson Group has announced its support for Homes for Scotland’s Homes Build Futures campaign, which aims to address the housing emergency by increasing supply across all tenures to ensure safe, secure homes are available f

The Scottish Government’s proposed Building Safety Levy (Scotland) Bill, intended to fund the remediation of unsafe cladding, is facing mounting criticism from rural organisations and major developers who warn it could worsen Scotland’s housing emergency rather than resolve it.

Barratt and David Wilson Homes Scotland have announced their support for the new Homes for Scotland ‘Homes Build Futures' campaign.  Launched in September, the campaign aims to push housing supply firmly up the political agenda in the run-up to next year’s Scottish Parliament electi

Homes for Scotland (HFS) has launched a new national campaign to push housing supply firmly up the political agenda in the run-up to next year’s Scottish Parliament election. With 693,000 households (28%) identified as being in housing need, 250,000 people on waiting lists, 17,240 househo

The importance of housing in Scotland’s countryside and the considerable support for home building to address rural challenges have been highlighted in a new report.