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Lettings firm Even Property, which launched just two years ago in Glasgow, has bought Capital Letters in a £250,000 deal. The new deal has resulted in Even Property more than doubling the number of managed properties on its books to over 500 across its offices in Glasgow, Stirling and Aberdeen

Swan Group is supporting this year's Shelter Scotland Sleepwalk in Glasgow on Tuesday 3rd December.

Employees of Barratt Homes East Scotland have abseiled from the Forth Rail Bridge to raise much-needed funds for its charity of the year – Rock Trust.

Housing associations and many of their subsidiaries are now subject to requests for information under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.

The Scottish Housing Regulator is to visit ten landlords as part of a project that will result in it sharing lessons from the first round of landlord annual assurance statements. All RSLs and local authorities were required to submit an annual assurance statement by October 31 each year to confirm t

Rural Stirling Housing Association (RSHA) has unveiled its latest development of new homes in Doune. The development of six properties costing almost £1 million at Woodyard Court has been built in a location where a timber sawmill once stood.

Around 500 landlords, letting agents and housing professionals and more than 40 exhibitors involved in private rented housing in Scotland will gather in Edinburgh today for the Scottish Letting Day conference.

Celeste, a volunteer with Homeless Network Scotland, highlights the new ‘All In for Change’ project that the charity is working on with its partners ahead of the first drop-in session next week.

The energy advice team at Hillcrest is celebrating victory after winning the acclaimed Energy Efficiency Champion award at the Energy Action Scotland Awards 2019. Euan Hird, Joy Watson and Craig Thompson

A decision in the case brought against the lock-change evictions of asylum seekers in Glasgow carried out by Serco will be handed down by Scotland’s highest civil court tomorrow.

Urban Union has grown its staff base as it prepares for the launch of its fourth site in Scotland later this year. Caroline Wallace and Vivienne Holland are welcomed back to their roles in the commercial department following a period of maternity leave.

Glasgow City Council has approved plans to build 49 new homes on the site of a former B&Q store near Hogganfield Loch. The development at Cumbernauld Road will consist of 18 cottage flats, 18 detached houses, 10 semi-detached houses and three terraced houses. Space will also be allotted to alloc

Community groups and frontline staff who work with the public in Perth and Kinross are invited to attend free events that raise awareness of fuel poverty and how it can be tackled.

A letting agent and property management company is offering a new way for people to rent a property without the substantial outlay of paying a deposit. Stonehouse Lettings said its Reposit initiative is the first of its type to be offered to the north east rental market.

SafeDeposits Scotland is hosting workshops to train Stirling landlords on dispute management. In the last year, 113 disputes have arisen between landlords and tenants in Stirling and the surrounding areas according to the latest research from SafeDeposits Scotland.