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A new online portal has been launched to bring empty homeowners together with prospective buyers or developers, with the aim of facilitating more properties to be used as homes again.

Dumfries and Galloway Council will consider the future of the Whitesands Project – combining a major flood protection scheme with significant public realm improvements – at its Full Council meeting on Thursday 11 December.

A new pilot aimed at preventing people from becoming homeless has officially been given the go-ahead after the City of Edinburgh Council and partners were awarded funding from the Scottish Government.

The Fairer Aberdeen Board has distributed £1.54 million allocated by Aberdeen City Council to tackle poverty and deprivation across the city.

Fife Council has launched a Community Benefits and Wealth Building initiative to share potential support through its tendering and contract management processes. A new tool designed to help local voluntary groups, charities and community organisations access free support from businesses delivering c

A team that helps spinal injuries patients at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) to secure access to suitable housing when they leave hospital, is celebrating a major honour at recent national awards.

Bield, one Scotland’s largest providers of housing and support services for older people, has launched a major new report, A Roadmap for Independent Living: Reimagining Housing, Health, and Ageing in Scotland, setting out a 20-year vision for how Scotland can better enable people to live well,

Sigma Capital, a UK provider of build-to-rent (BTR) housing, has agreed a £268 million investment debt facility with Morgan Stanley.   The new facility has been established to refinance a newly-completed portfolio of c.1,400 homes drawn from Sigma’s wider portfolio of c.4,500 homes

A major housing development at the former Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre (AECC) is expected to be approved next week.

A new report has outlined the significant steps taken by Argyll and Bute Council to tackle its housing emergency, focusing on increasing affordable housing supply and supporting those most in need.

Aberdeenshire Council has marked the completion of 73 new rental properties as part of a housing development at Nether Aden, Mintlaw. The homes are a mix of houses, flats, and bungalows with between one and four bedrooms and were completed in the summer. Most are now in occupation, with the final pr

The team at Volunteer Centre East Lothian (VCEL) have thrown open their doors after an extensive renovation and are welcoming back local residents, volunteers and community groups just in time for the season of goodwill commencing.

Perth & Kinross Council will receive £1 million from the Scottish Government to help meet the costs incurred by the fire at 41 Scott Street in June. One person died and several people were injured in the fire, which occurred during the early hours of 14 June.

An eye-catching time-lapse video has been released documenting the construction progress of high-quality student apartments at St Vincent Studios in Glasgow. The seven-second video shows the flagship development of 321 self-contained studio apartments spectacularly rising out of the ground – a

A group of Johnstone residents visited the site where their new homes will be built to mark the start of construction work.   Four residents from the Howwood Road area were guided round the site by officers from Renfrewshire Council and the contractor carrying out the works, McTaggart Construct