Lar Housing Trust

Muir Timber Systems has been appointed to deliver the timber kit supply and erect package for Lar Housing Trust’s latest affordable housing project at Port Edgar in South Queensferry.

Lar Housing Trust chief executive Ann Leslie is to retire from the organisation after ten years. Ms Leslie was Lar’s first permanent chief executive, setting up the housing charity and overseeing its launch, with a remit to prove the concept of a different funding model, which could help to ad

A WWII veteran has returned to her wartime roots to help mark the start of construction work at an abandoned historic naval barracks on the banks of the Firth of Forth. Dorothea Barron, who is 100 years old, was stationed at Port Edgar during the war and was the guest of honour at a special ceremony

Lar Housing Trust is celebrating picking up a prestigious national award for one of its Edinburgh developments. The recently completed conversion of an abandoned and derelict church in the Fountainbridge area of the city picked up the top prize in the Small Affordable Development of the Year categor

The City of Edinburgh Council has approved Lar Housing Trust's plans to develop an abandoned factory in the Granton area into new homes.

Lar Housing Trust has strengthened its board with the appointment of Alison MacDonald, a vastly experienced non-executive director and charity trustee. Former banker, Alison MacDonald, has joined the board of the housing charity which develops mid-market rental homes across Scotland. She previously

Construction work has started to convert a historic former naval barracks into new homes.

Lar Housing Trust, a housing charity set up to establish whether a new financial model could help tackle Scotland’s shortage of affordable homes, is celebrating a series of remarkable achievements as its first funding pipeline finishes. Lar Housing Trust was launched in October 2015, with a &p

Lar Housing Trust has appointed a very well-known figure in the housing sector to a senior role in its construction subsidiary. Peter Shepherd, former managing director at Muir Homes and ex-chair of Mactaggart & Mickel Homes Trade Board, has been appointed to the post of director at Lar Projects

The cost of renting in Scotland’s PRS is beginning to ease whilst policy measures for rent controls continue their journey through Parliament.

A new office, community space and shop have opened up in Prestonpans as part of an affordable housing development. The site, at Jim Bush Drive in the town, was developed by Lar Housing Trust into 16 two-bed mid-market rental flats and also included three commercial units on the ground floor. 

The economic and social benefit created by the delivery of mid-market rent (MMR) properties has been highlighted in a new report commissioned by not-for-profit developers HHA and Lar Housing Trust, and fund and asset manager for social housing Thriving Investments.

Lar Housing Trust has appointed Mikko Ramstedt as its first chief operating officer. Mr Ramstedt joined Lar in March 2018 as director of finance and corporate services from Scottish Futures Trust, where he specialised in housing projects, before taking on the job of managing director at subsidiary L

A financial model implemented by Lar Housing Trust is a proven blueprint to help tackle Scotland's current housing crisis, the charity has said. Launched in autumn 2015, Lar uses loan-based finance rather than traditional grant funding to provide affordable housing developments. The Scotland-wide or

Lar Housing Trust has won praise from a major City figure for bringing derelict buildings back into use as affordable homes. Lloyds Banking Group chief executive, Charlie Nunn, was visiting Lar Housing Trust’s latest project in Glasgow, which is transforming an abandoned paint factory into 43