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Receiving their award from sponsors Northern gas heating are (2nd left) Steve Laurie, E.ON; Karen MacLean, the council’s energy advice officer & Omar Rickets, E.ON The Highland Council has won a national award for a project aimed at cutting the cost of heating Highland homes.

The Burgh Yard site viewed from Albert Place A proposal to create a hotel, restaurants and housing in Galashiels has moved forward after Scottish Borders Council completed the sale of the site.

One in four private tenants has deductions taken from their deposit when they leave the property but almost all successfully claim the cash back, according to a new study which also found variations in tenant behaviour across Scotland. The first annual survey of the money deducted by landlords from

Bryony Willett Maryhill Housing has announced the appointment of its new chief executive.

Large scale residential investor Get Living has concluded a deal which will provide more than 600 homes for rent in the heart of Glasgow's Merchant City district. The 7.5-acre High Street site has outline planning consent and the developer hopes to bring forward a new residential neighbourhood.

Jeane Freeman Almost £58 million will be spent mitigating the impact of the UK government’s welfare reform on households across Scotland, it has been announced, as Westminster vows to press on with plans for further cuts to housing benefit.

Councillor Frank McAveety and Loretto director Cathy Fallon join Shamila and Abdul Mohamed in their new home in Eriboll Crescent A Loretto Housing tenant has praised her spacious new-build home for helping to bring her family closer together.

(from left) Fiona Hainey (team leader property management design and projects), John MacMillan (service manager, integrated facilities management) Cllr Violet Weir, and Gavin Kennedy (project officer) Eight new properties for Stirling Council tenants have been completed as part of a new housing deve

A former Dundee primary school is to be demolished and replaced with almost 50 new homes under new plans submitted to the local authority. Developer Kirkwood Homes wants to build 49 two-bedroom flats on Bellfield Street, where the now-closed St Joseph’s RC Primary School building still stands.

A new report from the British Red Cross has exposed how refused asylum seekers are trapped in a life of destitution in Scotland. The number of destitute refugees and asylum seekers helped by the charity in Glasgow increased from 326 in 2014 to 820 in 2016.

Jim McCormick At least 2,000 people with direct personal experience of the current social security system are being recruited to help shape Scotland’s new system.

The amount of money loaned to young Scots from the Bank of Mum and Dad has increased by almost a third but with fewer expected to pay the family back, according to a survey. New research from Bank of Scotland has found that last year Bank of Mum and Dad loaned almost a third (29%) more money to thei

A joint venture between developer Moda Living and investment manager Apache Capital is to deliver 525 new homes for rent in Edinburgh city centre in a multi-million pound deal which will also include the purchase of 46 existing private rented homes. Property firm Grosvenor Britain & Ireland has

Glasgow City Council has approved a long term housing plan for Govanhill that has earmarked £6.4 million to allow housing associations to build 350 new homes in the area. The funding for the new homes will be channelled through housing associations over the next four years with eight sites in the a

Melville Housing Association is to invest nearly £1.6 million in upgrades to tenants’ homes over the next 12 months with the main focus being the replacement of older kitchens. Almost one in five of Melville’s original properties (those built before the 1995 transfer from Scottish Homes) are to