Housing

Legislation to strengthen tenants’ rights and prevent homelessness has passed stage 1 in the Scottish Parliament. The Housing (Scotland) Bill aims to tackle poverty across Scotland by ...

CEO of Scottish property portal ESPC, Paul Hilton, shares his thoughts on how the new UK government could help to bring about much-needed change in Scotland’s housing. ...

Scotland's largest residential landlord, the Glasgow Housing Association (GHA), has successfully defended a case brought under the Equality Act 2010 by housing charity Shelter Scotland. Michael Upton, ...

A landlord who was ordered in his absence to pay £700 to a former tenant for an alleged breach of tenancy deposit regulations has successfully had the ...

Details of a proposed bill on housing will be published next week as part of a new 20-year route map for housing in the coming decades. Housing ...

Enforcement of evictions from rented properties will be halted in Scotland for a six week period until mid-January. Regulations will be introduced that will prevent eviction orders ...

RSB Lindsays is optimistic that housing demand will return to pre-lockdown levels once business resumes. The firm expects some 600 home viewings in Dundee when the Scottish ...

Neil Casey guides landlords through the emergency changes to housing legislation in Scotland. The Scottish Government has passed the Coronavirus (Scotland) Bill, which will now become law. These ...

Council tenants facing eviction in West Dunbartonshire have been given temporary reprieve as it would be "morally wrong" to oust them during the coronavirus pandemic. The local ...

Last weekend, the number of daily subscribers to our sister publication Scottish Housing News broke through 7,000 on the back of record website traffic for August with ...

A BBC article published at the end of last month highlighted a recommendation made by lobbyist group Greenpeace to introduce a national agency to enforce building standards ...

Legislation to support people who struggle to pay their fuel bills, targeting those who need help the most, has been passed unanimously by the Scottish Parliament. The ...

Steve Dougherty challenges the shortcomings of the current planning and regulatory system and asks if a quasi-free market approach would appeal to some prospective home-owners in Scotland. For ...