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Parkhead Housing Association chief executive Jim Strang (left) with Kevin Stewart MSP Parkhead Housing Association welcomed minister for local government and housing Kevin Stewart MSP to Parkhead yesterday to open the Association’s latest development at the site of the old Blackcat Studios.

An initiative to bring long-term vacant properties back into use in North Ayrshire has landed its first success. North Ayrshire Council bought an empty property which was in need of major repairs as part of the Empty Homes Buy Back Scheme.

The UK’s communities secretary Sajid Javid started the year with a visit to the Netherlands and Germany to look at how self- and custom-build homes can make a contribution to the enduring challenge of adequate housing delivery. This comes hot on the heels of the Scottish Government’s recent conf

George Aitken Court James Frew has completed the refurbishment of George Aitken Court, a sheltered housing complex in Ardrossan, North Ayrshire.

An after-school club part-funded by a Sanctuary grant Sanctuary Scotland has helped fund after-school clubs in two of Scotland’s most deprived communities.

The latest publication of the monthly UK House Price Index (UK HPI) shows that the average price of a property in Scotland in January 2017 was £142,233 – an increase of 4% on January in the previous year and an increase of 2.1% when compared to the previous month. This compares to a UK average of

Alison Watson A new National Homelessness Strategy for Scotland, which is informed and designed with input from people with lived experience of homelessness, is the only way the root causes of homelessness can be tackled, a conference will hear today.

Ian Brennan A new report which sets out ten principles of positive practice for social landlords considering developing new homes has been published by the Scottish Housing Regulator.

Mary Taylor A request by Scottish ministers for an immediate halt to the roll-out of the full service of Universal Credit “until problems with its implementation are fully resolved” has been welcomed by the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA).

Persimmon Homes has been ordered to stop carrying out extensive groundworks for a 300-home development in Kinross after it was revealed the firm didn’t have permission to do so. Contractors employed by the housebuilder have been digging up land west of Lathro Meadows adjacent to the A922 over the

Plans have been lodged for a retirement village on a farm on the outskirts of Dundee. Redwood Retreats is seeking permission to develop 60 homes for elderly people on land owned by Angus farmer and company owner Hugh Niven at Linlathen Farm in Broughty Ferry.

Lisa Glass On Thursday 16th March, the Scottish Government released two sets of poverty statistics, on how many people live in poverty and on how many people live in ‘persistent poverty’, in other words, have been in poverty for three of the last four years.

Spire View's proposed plans for Rainbow HAll Southside Housing Association and Spire View Housing Association are among ten organisations to share more than £10 million of lottery funding for a range of new builds, developments and extensions to buildings for community use.

Crofters are to benefit from an additional £600,000 to enable them to build and improve crofter housing. The Croft House Grant scheme will receive the extra funding in 2017/18, taking the total allocation to £2 million, rural economy secretary Fergus Ewing has announced.

Russell Young ‘Old habits die hard’ goes the expression and nowhere does this appear to be truer than in the area of estate inspections by social landlords. A recent HouseMark survey found that two thirds of social landlords still log their inspection reports manually on-site with pen and paper