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Hillcrest is set to deliver 298 new homes for affordable rent in the centre of Dundee in 2024, with 160 homes already complete, and a further 85 scheduled to be completed by the end of summer.

CCG Asset Management, the planned maintenance division of the CCG Group, is in the process of installing 2400 Janex windows for 300 residences in Renfrewshire and Glasgow.

Plans for the first phase of a £1.3 billion sustainable new coastal town at Granton Waterfront in Edinburgh have now been submitted for planning following extensive consultation.

Communities and businesses are being called on to help inform an interactive tool which assesses how well Highland places meet the principles of local living. ‘Local living’ aims to provide people the ability to meet the majority of their daily needs within a reasonable distance to their

Grouse Lettings, a residential property management and leasing business, has expanded its property portfolio by 295% following two acquisitions. The Aberdeen firm has acquired Babs Buglass Leasing and the long-term lettings side of the PMC Property business. The combined valued of the deals is six-f

Ore Valley Housing Association has successfully redeveloped the former Bowhill Miners Institute building in Cardenden, Fife.

Lochalsh & Skye Housing Association has just opened two new homes for rent on the Isle of Raasay. The Association homes sit alongside a further three provided for rent by the Raasay Development Trust. The homes were built on land provided by the Raasay Sheep Stock Club.

The Propertymark Qualifications Level 3 (Level 6 SCQF) Certificate in Property Agency has been launched at the colossal Propertymark One Conference, last week, to enable and support learners who wish to gain qualifications specific to and across more than one nation and specialism. From now on, the

Link Group is assisting communities across the West Highlands through its Link in the Community Fund. Charity Hope to Oban’s engaging Memento Box programme is one initiative that has benefited from the funding, using the money to bring primary school children closer to the community through it

Councillors will be asked to approve the distribution of funding totalling £400,000 to be used for local community projects across Perth and Kinross through the Community Investment Fund (CIF) and Participatory Budgeting. The money will continue to empower communities to make important decisio

Brendan Sarsfield, chair of Sustainability for Housing (SfH), will step down from the organisation later this year after more than three years at the helm. SfH, which oversees the Sustainability Reporting Standard for Social Housing (SRS), has started its search for a successor who can maintain mome

A £650 million bid by Bellway to take over rival housebuilder Crest Nicholson has been rejected, the second refused approach in as many months.

A new £11.6 million affordable housing development in the Stewartry area is nearing completion.

An Affordable Warmth at Home in the Western Isles report released this week by Tighean Innse Gall (TIG) has found that the Western Isles faces the highest levels of fuel poverty in Scotland. British Gas Energy Trust funded a stand-alone report which was produced from a funded survey which TIG issue

One of the biggest events in the social housing calendar is set to take place in the Golden Jubilee Hotel in Clydebank from June 21-23. Now in its 3rd year in Clydebank, the TPAS Annual Conference, sponsored by ng homes attracts over 200 individuals from across the social housing sector in Scotland