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Christopher Hamer and board chariman Bill McClintock The Property Ombudsman (TPO) scheme has unveiled two new versions of its Code of Practice for sales and lettings agents operating in Scotland as it officially marked the launch of TPO Scotland.

A housing association has set up its own estate agency to help raise funds for new affordable homes. Launched by Gloucestershire-based Two Rivers Housing Group yesterday, TwoCan property sales and lettings agency will gift all of its profit to support the work of the local housing charity.

Margaret Rowe and her dog Glen Over 80 Port Glasgow homes are enjoying being connected to the gas network for the first time and are already benefitting from cheaper fuel bills and more efficient heating.

(left to right) Lovell graduate trainee Kerrie Lee; Mary Leishman of Investors in People Scotland; Lovell regional director Alan Taylor; Lovell labourer Peter Phinn and Lovell joiner John Fitzsimmons Affordable housing developer Lovell has achieved the Investors in Young People Accreditation, the on

People in Scotland facing bad housing and homelessness will now be able to access free, housing, money and debt advice via their computer, tablets and mobile phones – with one-to-one support and signposting provided digitally from housing advisors. The new digital advice service has been launched

Tenants of a Bield retirement home in Livingston have partnered with local high school students to stay ‘up-to-the-minute’ with the latest technology. For the second year running, Sixth Form pupils at Deans Community High School have been teaching tenants of Bield’s Pentland View Court various

Liz McGinniss (left) and Anne Marie Brown Craigdale Housing Association director Liz McGinniss has tendered her resignation and left the association after 26 years.

West Dunbartonshire Council has achieved the national housing standard for more than 9,400 of its homes after a successful £81 million investment. The project, which is the largest scale housing investment in the council’s history, included replacing 1,700 bathrooms and 800 kitchens and upgrading

Developers have won planning permission to transform an ageing Perthshire Catholic school into council flats. The B-listed St Stephen’s building in Blairgowrie closed its doors six years ago when classes moved into the town’s community campus.

The UK government’s spending watchdog has criticised the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) for its failure to anticipate problems in its implementation of welfare reform. The National Audit Office has called for the DWP to use the hard lessons it learned from implementing its recent program

Alex Neil Many people accessing benefits are living in constant fear that further cuts will push them into "crisis situations", a new study has found.

The High Court has ordered that a judicial review challenge to the benefit cap and its impact upon disabled people and their carers should proceed to a full hearing, and that this hearing must take place urgently. The secretary of state for work and pensions, Iain Duncan Smith, unsuccessfully argued

Tenant scrutiny is increasingly a ‘talking point’ for housing in Scotland with the country having its own unique history in respect of the development of tenant engagement, tenant involvement and tenant participation. The Scottish Social Housing Charter, the regulatory regime and existing requir

(from left) Alan Duncan, River Clyde Homes’ board member; Nicole with Jay and Kristopher; Albert Henderson OBE, River Clyde Homes’ board member A Port Glasgow family has moved into their new River Clyde Homes property after 10 months of watching it being built from the window of their old house.

Dr Martin Wersing House prices in Aberdeen could hold the key to predicting the future price of oil, according to academics at the University of Aberdeen.