Mid-Market Rent

Port of Leith Housing Association and its subsidiary Persevere Developments Ltd are celebrating the official opening of 15 new homes for mid-market rent and nine new homes for social rent at West Bowling Green Street in Leith. Keith Anderson (Port of Leith Housing Association chief executive), Caitl

Home Group has been granted planning permission to transform a former Glasgow nursing home site into 36 flats.

Kingdom Housing Association’s Nick Pollard discusses whether the law regarding Mid-Market Renting in Scotland is outdated, counter-productive and detrimental to the affordable housing sector and its tenants and participants. The Housing (Scotland) Acts provide for the development of Mid-Market

The site of a former primary school in the south side of Glasgow has been transformed into 45 new affordable homes. The Lowther Homes mid-market development in Batson Street, Govanhill – built by contractors CCG (Scotland) Ltd – is on the site of the old Victoria Primary School, which wa

The completion of a 92-home mixed tenure residential development in Balgate, Kiltarlity, has been marked with the final handover of seven new homes to the Highland Council.

A stable block which was home to dozens of working horses in Glasgow has been transformed into 52 new flats for mid-market rent. GHA and Lowther Homes, both part of Wheatley Group, are behind the £7 million regeneration project which has put life back into the B-listed Bell Street Stables in t

LAR Housing Trust has signed up the first tenants for its latest development in East Lothian as the waiting list for the area hits record numbers. The housing charity, which specialises in providing mid-market rental homes, has let the first two properties at its Dolphinstone development with a furt

Detailed planning proposals have been submitted to City of Edinburgh Council for the final residential plots within the Salamander Place development in Leith.

Plans have been submitted to build more than 250 mid-market apartments for rent on land at the former Bellgrove Meat Market in Glasgow.

Work has started to transform a derelict site in the south side of Glasgow into much-needed affordable homes.

A housing investment fund set up last year by the Scottish Government and Places for People Group’s fund management arm has acquired its first two developments. Housing minister Kevin Stewart launched the multi-million pound investment last year to deliver mid-market rent homes across the coun

Scotland’s housing minister has been given a progress report on a project to tackle the shortage of mid market rental homes across Scotland. Kevin Stewart MSP was visiting LAR Housing Trust’s multi million pound development at Westwood House in the west of Edinburgh.

Glasgow City Council has approved plans to build 186 affordable homes on the former site of a bus depot in Govanhill. Designed by Mast Architects on behalf of Link Group and Park Lane Larkfield SPV, the project will see 24 one-bedroom flats, 128 two-bedroom flats, 30 three-bedroom houses and four tw

Albyn Housing Society has started work on its first ever affordable housing scheme in Ardgay, Sutherland, as part of its ambitious plan to build 750 affordable homes in the Highlands by 2020. Compass Building and Construction has been appointed as lead contractor at the Drovers Square development, a

Amy Norton Amy Norton argues that promoting more Build to Rent developments for the mid-market rent sector would be an effective means of striking a balance to get investment so more properties are built to help contribute towards the Scottish Government’s affordable housing pledge.