Scotland will not be able to meet its economic ambitions or create a fairer society without action on housing The latest official figures on the extent of homelessness make for bleak reading over the ...

The NHS, housing, rising living costs and immigration are among the top concerns when it comes to older voters in Scotland ...

Nicola Woodward, senior director and head of the Edinburgh office at Lichfields, examines how current housing policy in ...

In fact, members of Scotland’s Edinburgh-based Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors found a growing difference between Scotland’s housing strength and other areas of the U.K., including the ...

EDINBURGH, Scotland — A few days after John Dalton declared himself homeless, the Scottish government moved him into Muirhouse Mansion, a 19th century stone home built to resemble a Gothic castle.

Scotland’s housing emergency cannot end unless there is “urgent” action to tackle the “chronic shortage” of affordable homes, ministers have been told. More than £4 billion of public investment was ...

Scottish minister of public finance Ivan McKee has announced plans to create a new Housing Planning Hub (HPH) to unlock development sites. The new hub, which will be operational in 2025, will aim to ...

The Investigation and Commencement of Repair (Scotland) Regulations 2026 will introduce new duties on landlords to investigate reports of damp and mould and initiate any necessary repairs within a set ...

The Scottish government first confirmed in March last year that it would introduce amendments to the Housing (Scotland) Bill broadening ministers’ powers to impose timeframes on social landlords to ...

CHANCELLOR Rachel Reeves has been urged by Scottish Housing Secretary Mairi McAllan to use her Budget on Wednesday to deliver a boost in capital spending that will “reinvigorate housebuilding.” ...

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