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The Scottish Government should "fully commit" to housing co-operatives to help tackle Scotland's housing crisis, opposition MSPs have said. A recent report from Co-operatives UK highlighted that Scotland has just 11 registered housing co-ops, compared to 685 across the UK, at a time when 150,000 peo

Glasgow-based architectural practice Anderson Bell + Christie has become the latest Scottish business to announce its transition to employee ownership. Following the transfer of 100 per cent of the business’s shares into an Employee Ownership Trust, the 38-strong team at Anderson Bell + Christ

The 2019 CIH Scotland Excellence Awards, which recognise and celebrate the creativity, passion and innovation of housing organisations and individuals across the breadth of the sector in Scotland, are now open for applications. These awards are open to housing teams, private landlords and sector lea

Volunteers at a Bield development in West Dunbartonshire have been acknowledged for their hard work and dedication to improving the lives of older people in their area. Bield volunteers at Oakbank and The Croft took part in activities to celebrate Volunteers’ Week on Thursday.

The Scottish Government is on track to hit its ambitious target of 50,000 affordable homes by 2021 after new figures revealed a large increase in the total number of affordable and social rented homes.

South Lanarkshire Council has lodged detailed plans for 45 new council homes and a new Care Hub.

Linthouse Housing Association has started a £1.1 million project to extensively remodel a building that formerly housed a very sheltered housing complex in Govan.

A record number of privately-owned empty homes in Scotland were brought back into use with help from local councils last year. In its latest annual report, the Scottish Empty Homes Partnership (SEHP) said that 1,128 properties became homes again in 2018-2019, the best year yet for the group which su

Eildon Housing Association's latest new development on Selkirk High Street/Chapel Street has opened its doors for its first public viewing.

A cycling initiative aimed at getting older people out and enjoying the fresh air has officially launched its second bike in Perth, thanks to the help of an 82-year-old Bield tenant.

Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) and Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) have joined forces to launch a £140,000 energy advisor programme to support vulnerable households and help reduce fuel poverty in the north of Scotland.

Architects, house-builders and housing developers of all sizes have been shortlisted in the Saltire Society Housing Design Awards 2019.

Housebuilder Barratt Homes is targeting key cities and towns in 2019 in which to install innovative swift bricks into its homes.

The latest statistics from Registers of Scotland’s Property Market Report 2018-19 show that the value of residential property sales in the financial year 2018-19 was £18.2 billion, an increase of 1.6% when compared with 2017-18.

Social enterprises have been invited to apply for the Social Enterprise Awards 2019, which is open to applications until Sunday 7 July. Information and the online application form is now available from the www.socialenterpriseawards.scot website.