Mid-Market Rent

Kingdom Housing Association has completed its latest project in Kirkcaldy which will see 15 new energy-efficient flats available for Mid Market Rent (MMR) with power costs as low as £310 - £350 a year. The £1.52 million project has created the 15 new homes at Ferrard Road as part of a Design &

Ashley Campbell Ashley Campbell, policy and practice manager at CIH Scotland, blogs about newly commissioned research on mid-market rent, in partnership with Wheatley Group.

Cllrs Judy Hamilton, George Kay and Peter George visit the site with John Mills, head of housing and council officers responsible for the conversion A project is under way to renovate the three main vacant buildings at the site of Burntisland’s former primary school into 25 affordable homes.

Social justice secretary Alex Neil launching the LAR Housing Trust in Musselburgh An evaluation report into a new investment vehicle that will provide up to 1,000 affordable homes for rent across Scotland has found no negative impacts identified with the scheme.

Nattalie McCulloch outside her new home After living in a series of cold and damp private lets with sky-high heating costs, Nattalie McCulloch and her teenage son Jack couldn’t believe their luck when they landed the keys to a new Lowther Homes property.

New tenants Craig McCall and Kayley Archibald Tenants have moved into the final phase of Kingdom Housing Association’s recently completed £3.5 million mid market rent development at Pottery Street Kirkcaldy.

An ambitious project to build a new community of affordable homes in Leith is now underway. Port of Leith Housing Association (PoLHA) and the City of Edinburgh Council have started work on the Leith Fort housing development, with the first homes due to complete in 2017.

(from left) Eildon tenant Ms Lorraine Watson, Calum Kerr MP and Eildon’s chairman Trevor Burrows Calum Kerr MP was the guest of honour at the opening ceremony of one of Eildon Housing Association’s latest new developments.

(from left) Kingdom chief executive, Bill Banks; housing and welfare minister, Margaret Burgess MSP and Kingdom chairperson, Charles Milne Kingdom Housing Association has marked the completion of 65 new affordable homes for Mid Market Rent at Pittencrieff Street, Dunfermline.

A new organisation set up to deliver mid market housing in Aberdeenshire is to acquire its first homes next month. Aberdeenshire Council agreed to lend funds to Create Homes Aberdeenshire to enable the purchase of 24 affordable housing units from Stewart Milne Group at the developers Westfield site

Housing minister Margaret Burgess and GHA chair Gordon Sloan met tenant Domenic Lombardi in his new home Flats earmarked for demolition have been given a new lease of life thanks to a £3.4 million regeneration project in Glasgow.

Progress is well under way with the first new homes now on site at a new housing development in Niddrie, Edinburgh. Being developed by CCG (Scotland) Ltd, The Schoolhouse is giving a new lease of life to the site of the former Niddrie Mill Primary School.

Committee Members of Williamson Hall being presented with a cheque for £100 Kingdom Housing Association has thrown its support behind the Abernethy Fete, which is a very important fundraiser for the management committee of the village’s Williamson Hall.

The first houses built for mid-market rent are set to be handed over to Aberdeenshire Council by the end of this month, councillors have been informed. The first development of 12 houses in Westhill is nearly finished with a further 12 being completed by the end of August.

Lord Provost Sadie Docherty and GHA chair Gordon Sloan with GHA and Lowther Homes tenants and staff and representatives from Scottish Government and contractors City Building Tenants are celebrating moving in to their affordable new homes in the south side of Glasgow.