Scottish Housing Regulator

The Scottish Housing Regulator has used its statutory powers to suspend the chair of Kincardine Housing Co-operative after it identified “serious and urgent risks” to the delivery of services to tenants. Concerns have been raised about how Kincardine is managing conflicts of interest, th

George Walker The Scottish Housing Regulator has highlighted the need for landlords to consider tenants’ ability to keep paying rents in the longer term when setting rents.

Delegates at the Eydent Housing Conference Over 100 delegates from Ayrshire RSLs were joined for the third Eydent Housing Conference by colleagues from Ayrshire local authorities, as well as RSLs from Renfrewshire and Glasgow.

George Walker The Scottish Housing Regulator has given evidence to the Scottish Parliament’s local government and communities committee on its work over the past year.

George Walker The Scottish Housing Regulator’s new chair has used his first conference speech to give a clear message on empowering tenants, ahead of a review of the regulatory framework.

Eydent Conference at Gailes Hotel Irvine A major housing conference titled Meeting the Challenge will take place in Irvine later this month.

A report by the Scottish Housing Regulator has found that lenders and investors are continuing to help fund registered social landlords (RSLs) as they work towards the Scottish Government’s target of an extra 35,000 social rented houses by 2021. The regulator's new report on on the annual loan por

The Scottish Housing Regulator has decided to end the appointment of four governing body members at Molendinar Park Housing Association. Statutory action was taken in March after the Association identified that its governing body did not meet its own constitutional requirements and sought support fr

A group of staff from the Scottish Housing Regulator ‎spent a day this week helping to increase biodiversity in Mugdock Country Park‎. The group of ten dug out new ponds, and cut and moved rhododendron trees in the park.

The Scottish Housing Regulator has published its annual report and accounts for 2016/17 which looks back on another busy year of working to protect the interests of tenants, homeless people and others who use social landlords’ services. The Regulator continued to empower tenants by publishing acce

Members of the Easterhouse Housing and Regeneration Housing Alliance (EHRA) have welcomes the latest landlord reports from the Scottish Housing Regulator and are pleased to note the improving service provided to tenants and factored owners in Greater Easterhouse. EHRA is a campaigning organisation r

A council housing repairs inspector North Lanarkshire Council's housing service is performing above the Scottish average in key areas including; offering value for money, rents, maintaining its homes and improving neighbourhoods, a new report has shown.

HouseMark Scotland has launched the 2017 Scottish Social Housing Charter interactive comparison tool, supporting the social housing sector to identify and action areas for improvement and efficiencies. Using the Annual Return data published by the Scottish Housing Regulator, the tool allows users to

George Walker The Scottish Housing Regulator has published its annual reports on the performance of landlords against the Scottish Social Housing Charter and has introduced a new range of performance information to tenants.

The Scottish Housing Regulator is to seek assurance that ANCHO’s proposal to enter into a constitutional partnership with Cairn Housing Association is in the best interests of its tenants. The two social landlords announced plans in October 2016 to formally explore the establishment of a partnersh