Lar Housing Trust

Lar Housing Trust, a housing charity set up to establish whether a new financial model could help tackle Scotland’s shortage of affordable homes, is celebrating a series of remarkable achievements as its first funding pipeline finishes. Lar Housing Trust was launched in October 2015, with a &p

Lar Housing Trust has appointed a very well-known figure in the housing sector to a senior role in its construction subsidiary. Peter Shepherd, former managing director at Muir Homes and ex-chair of Mactaggart & Mickel Homes Trade Board, has been appointed to the post of director at Lar Projects

The cost of renting in Scotland’s PRS is beginning to ease whilst policy measures for rent controls continue their journey through Parliament.

A new office, community space and shop have opened up in Prestonpans as part of an affordable housing development. The site, at Jim Bush Drive in the town, was developed by Lar Housing Trust into 16 two-bed mid-market rental flats and also included three commercial units on the ground floor. 

The economic and social benefit created by the delivery of mid-market rent (MMR) properties has been highlighted in a new report commissioned by not-for-profit developers HHA and Lar Housing Trust, and fund and asset manager for social housing Thriving Investments.

Lar Housing Trust has appointed Mikko Ramstedt as its first chief operating officer. Mr Ramstedt joined Lar in March 2018 as director of finance and corporate services from Scottish Futures Trust, where he specialised in housing projects, before taking on the job of managing director at subsidiary L

A financial model implemented by Lar Housing Trust is a proven blueprint to help tackle Scotland's current housing crisis, the charity has said. Launched in autumn 2015, Lar uses loan-based finance rather than traditional grant funding to provide affordable housing developments. The Scotland-wide or

Lar Housing Trust has won praise from a major City figure for bringing derelict buildings back into use as affordable homes. Lloyds Banking Group chief executive, Charlie Nunn, was visiting Lar Housing Trust’s latest project in Glasgow, which is transforming an abandoned paint factory into 43

Two senior figures in the Scottish business community have taken on non-executive roles at a subsidiary of the charity Lar Housing Trust. Ed Monaghan, former CEO at housebuilder Mactaggart & Mickel, and Andrew Cowan, managing partner at solicitors TC Young, have been appointed to the board of La

Lar Housing Trust has picked up a prestigious national award for an Edinburgh development that caters for people with additional support needs. The charity took top honours in the Partnership of the Year (Development) category in the UK-wide Affordable Housing Awards scheme at a ceremony in Manchest

A new housing development has just opened in Edinburgh for people with additional support needs that is set to transform the lives of its tenants. The development at Ford’s Road in the west end of the city was built by the charity Lar Housing Trust and is being hailed as the perfect example of

Cruden Building has successfully completed two new housing developments in Prestonpans in East Lothian on behalf of Lar Housing Trust. The £3.2 million Northfields development, located near the railway station and local amenities in Prestonpans, has transformed a former derelict factory site i

Scottish charity Lar Housing Trust has been granted planning permission to develop a historic former naval barracks into new homes.

Lar Housing Trust has reported higher demand than ever before for its mid-market rental homes across the whole of Scotland. The trust, which recently inaugurated its eighth development in East Lothian, is presently on the lookout for additional sites to supplement its existing portfolio of 181 compl

Lar Housing Trust has said it faced unprecedented demand for its latest East Lothian development.