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A vacant office building in Glasgow is to be converted into student accommodation under newly lodged plans.

Hillcrest Homes has recorded its biggest financial gains for tenants yet after it put an astounding £3.3 million back in residents’ pockets during the last financial year. The incredible figure was collectively secured by the RSL's Tenant Services teams, comprising of Hillcrest Fina

First Minister John Swinney is to announce a £5 million package for Scotland’s island communities including funding to help tackle increasing costs.

One of Edinburgh’s leading annual charity dinners topped all previous records this month, after announcing a £170,000 fundraising total from this year’s event – all of which will be channelled into life-saving cancer research projects in Central Scotland. Business Beats Cance

Lovell Homes has appointed Margaret Davidson as its new sales director for Scotland as part of its ambitious plans to grow the private development side of the business. The housing developer aims to increase the number of homes it builds annually to an average of 140, up from approximately 78 due fo

Highland Council has unveiled a new online tool which will help speed up the process of identifying households that are most in need of energy efficiency improvements. Last year the local authority launched its pioneering Energy Benchmarking Tool which is used to monitor non-domestic property-relate

A new report from The Salvation Army in Scotland is recommending urgent collection of data on the number of people rough sleeping, along with cause-of-death data for anyone who dies while living in temporary accommodation.

Scottish households are still paying hundreds of pounds more for gas and electricity than they were before the energy crisis hit despite Ofgem lowering the energy price cap again, a charity has warned.

The transformation of a once-condemned housing estate in Livingston is celebrating a historic milestone with the official handover of the first few new homes. Springfield Properties presented the keys to the first new residents of Deans South, many of whom have waited over 20 years for this moment.

Ray Watt, regional employer engagement director from Highland Reserve Forces & Cadets Association visited the HHP offices to present the organisation with its Armed Forces Covenant.

New statistics on Scotland's Short-Term Lets Licensing Scheme have revealed that local authorities received at least 23,576 applications for a short-term lets licence by the end of December 2023. Since the scheme opened on October 1st 2022, 14,539 short-term lets licence applications

Construction work is underway on the latest new council homes to be built in Ardrossan and Irvine.

More than 40 landowners, including Transport Scotland, SSE Renewables, Highlands & Islands Enterprise, and Tomatin Distillery were invited to meet by representatives of the Strathdearn community to encourage communication and transparency around community benefits from land in the area. The even

Shelter Scotland has welcomed the First Minister’s recognition that investment in housing needs to be a fundamental part of delivering a fairer Scotland. In a speech to Parliament on his priorities for Scotland, John Swinney declared the eradication of child poverty as his "single most im

Brodies LLP has been appointed as a strategic partner to provide legal services to Sanctuary. Following a competitive tender process, Brodies was appointed to Lots 7 and 8 of the housing provider's legal panel to provide advice across the full spectrum of its activities in Scotland including develop