First up, a £12 million damages claim by Midlothian Council which sued engineering contractors Blyth & Blyth Consulting Engineers Ltd over a failed social housing development that had to be demolished for health and safety reasons was dismissed at the Court of Session in March.

At number nine, work commenced on the first phases of the Kingdom Park development that will deliver more than 1,000 new homes for Kirkcaldy.

Making number eight is the publication of the first annual assurance statements in November, after which the Scottish Housing Regulator revealed it would engage with the two RSLs and seven local authorities that did not submit an annual assurance statement by the requested deadline.

The appointment of Ann Marie Carr as the new head of housing, customer and building services at West Lothian Council was the seventh most read story, while the sale of a former school in Kirkintilloch to a developer which planned to deliver fifteen new homes made sixth on the list.

The top five begins with West of Scotland Housing Association (WSHA) welcoming tenants to a new social housing development at the former Rolls Royce site in East Kilbride, followed swiftly by an Edinburgh woman being ordered to stop renting her flat on Airbnb following noise complaints.

North Lanarkshire Council’s plans to work with housing developers to buy new ‘off the shelf homes’ was the third most read of the year.

At number two, a landlord who failed to pay a tenancy deposit into an approved deposit scheme until four years into the tenancy was unsuccessful in challenging a payment order in the Upper Tribunal for Scotland.

Making the top spot was a story from way back in January regarding four new benefits for low income families and carers being introduced by Social Security Scotland.