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The latest statistics from the UK House Price Index (HPI) show that the average price of a property in Scotland in February 2019 was £145,762 – a decrease of 0.2% on February in the previous year. This is the first annual decrease in the average price of a property in Scotland since Marc

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New statistics on social tenants and social rented housing in Scotland reflect the Scottish Government’s ongoing commitments to delivering suitable housing, communities secretary Aileen Campbell has said. Social Tenants in Scotland 2017, published yesterday, is the third annual statistical com

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Humza Yousaf MSP has described how he was ‘blown away’ by a pioneering care system after testing it out first-hand during a visit to a service in his Glasgow constituency. The justice secretary visited Blackwood’s Belses Gardens care home in Cardonald to see for himself the revolut

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Dundee City Council’s programme of energy efficiency measures will be extended to 350 more council and private homes at a cost of £3 million. Councillors will be told that houses in Benvie Road, Peddie Street, Law Crescent, Brownhill Street and Tummel Place/Dickson Avenue will receive th

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Scottish homeowners are the least likely in Britain to improve their property after the number of home improvement planning applications decreased last year. The ‘Home Improvers of Great Britain 2019’ report, compiled by construction industry analysts Barbour ABI, found that for every 10

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Scotland’s RSLs will do what they can to support asylum seekers and refugees in Glasgow following an eviction legal ruling, the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) has said. A case against plans by Home Office private housing contractor Serco to prevent failed asylum seekers bei

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A new report has called for a “fundamental review” of local government funding to examine new and alternative sources of revenue. According to a joint paper from Unison Scotland and the Jimmy Reid Foundation, an expansion of local public services is possible with a fairer system of prope

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