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Richard Slipper Richard Slipper from GVA on what the Scottish Government can do to address the nation’s housing shortage ahead of today’s Budget.

Angela Constance Representatives from the ‘Big Six’ energy companies attended a summit yesterday looking at ways to help low income households living in fuel poverty and facing a ‘poverty premium’ of paying more for their energy.

The site of the former Kildrum Nursery in Cumbernauld is being transformed into a new council housing development of 16 new modern, affordable homes. North Lanarkshire Council held a sod cutting event to mark the beginning of construction of the homes at Lochlea Road.

Housing association residents remain pleased with their new homes, with 80 per cent saying they were very satisfied or satisfied after 3-4 years of occupancy, new research has shown. Nearly two-thirds (64 per cent) said their home was much better than their previous residence, illustrating that stan

After 12 months of planning by a staff working group with input from tenants, Hillcrest Housing Association went live with its mobile working solution last month. As part of this improvement, Hillcrest’s housing and maintenance officers in Angus and Edinburgh have been issued tablets to enable the

Macy Robertson Nicola Robertson, senior strategy officer for housing at East Lothian Council, is currently seeking help raising £150,000 for a life changing operation for her 10-year old daughter Macy.

Volunteers, charities and businesses in Dundee have been offering their help to the city’s rough sleepers in the run up to Christmas. Young volunteers teamed up with charity Taught By Muhammad to help cook a three course meal for both homeless and socially isolated people in Dundee’s Menzieshill

The world’s oldest national register of land and property will celebrate its 400th anniversary during Scotland’s 2017 Year of History, Heritage and Archaeology. Registers of Scotland (RoS) will celebrate 400 years of Scottish land and property registration during 2017 with a year of commemorativ

Santa came to town early as part of Cloch Housing Association’s FACE project to examine and improve customer service and he still had time to visit Craigdale Housing Association. Staff at Cloch held a Christmas Fair in the Auchmountain Halls in Maukinhill with fun and games and a chance to survey

Jack Marshall Continuing our series of Just A Minute profiles of housing association finance directors, run in partnership with our sister publication Scottish Financial News, is Jack Marshall, director of business services, Trust Housing Association.

The former vice-chair of Wishaw & District Housing Association has resigned, criticising the way its chief executive has handled a long-running dispute with workers. Eddie Mullen said chief executive Niall Gordon has been “heavy handed” and has given the Board “inaccurate” information in

Court of Session A council tenant who claimed that his occupancy agreement which was to “continue on a fortnightly basis” should be treated as a Scottish secure tenancy because it did not contain an express provision stating that it was for a term of less than six months has won an appeal agains

Almost 16,000 new homes were built in the 12 months leading up to June 2016, an increase of four per cent on the same period the previous year, according to new figures. Quarterly housing statistics released yesterday by the Scottish Government found that there were 15,991 new build homes completed

The average rent arrears of a tenant receiving Universal Credit is almost five times the average of those not in receipt of the welfare payment, according to new research. Data and insight provider HouseMark carried out a detailed analysis of benchmarking data submitted by its members to examine the

Kenny Crawford The latest publication of the UK House Price Index (UK HPI) shows that the average price of a property in Scotland in October 2016 was £143,131 – an increase of four per cent on the previous year and an increase of one per cent when compared to the previous month.