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Twenty new homes on the edge of Dingwall are ready to welcome tenants. The Highland Council has taken ownership from contractor Capstone for the properties at Tulloch Square/Castle – Green Lady Court that include a mix of housing tenancy opportunities including:

A San Francisco company offering "sleeping pods" in a former bank for $700 (c. £530) a month has received over 300 applications for its remaining 17 beds, despite facing ongoing regulatory challenges. Brownstone Shared Housing, which aims to provide low-cost accommodation in expensive cities,

INCH Architecture + Design has been announced as Building Design UK’s Architect of the Year 2024: Social Value. The award comes in recognition of the practice's approach to working with community organisations, exemplified by creating three community projects in Inverclyde that enhance the qua

Independent Scottish housebuilder Allanwater Homes is the latest construction company to join the growing portfolio of property-focused PR agency Building Relations. The agency, which has offices across the UK including Edinburgh, London and Surrey, already boasts an impressive rollcall of internati

Westhill-based construction firm CHAP Group (Aberdeen) Ltd is expanding its civil engineering operations with the agreement to acquire A&A Civils Limited. The acquisition is expected to help boost CHAP’s annual revenues to over £80 million.

Bellway Homes has welcomed two new apprentices and a graduate to its Scotland West Division based in Hamilton. Junior Boyd-McKee, from Carluke, joins as an apprentice civil engineer alongside Alexandra Healy, from Hamilton who has been appointed an apprentice quantity surveyor. Both will attend univ

Balfour Beatty has invested over £5 million in new overhead line strategic assets to support the substantial growth in its Power Transmission & Distribution business. The company has the UK’s largest overhead line equipment fleet and over the last 18 months, has acquired eight new Pu

Homes for Scotland (HFS) has expressed grave concern after new statistics revealed that planning appeals for more than 3,000 new homes have been dismissed by the Scottish Government. Statistics from the government's Planning and Environmental Appeals Division revealed that 16 out of 18 planning appe

Cruden Group has announced plans to deliver 184 new homes across three new sites in Glasgow and the Scottish Borders. The ambitious plans, which include 128 affordable homes and 56 homes for private sale, come hot on the heels of Cruden starting work on a further 218 new affordable homes across

Operators, contractors, training providers and industry partners came together at OEUK’s Aberdeen office last night to formally toast the achievement and growth of the industry-led Connected Competence programme. The event follows the win by the Engineering Construction Industry Training Board

The official opening for the 12 semi-detached homes at Ionad Dotair MacLeóid took place in Lochmaddy on 29 October 2024.  The site was named after Dr Alexander MacLeod who spent over 70 years caring for people on North Uist and delivered the majority of babies on the island. He set up hi

Hardies Property & Construction Consultants has marked its 110-year anniversary by fundraising for youth homelessness charity Centrepoint. Having invited each of its 13 offices throughout the UK to create an event centred around the number 110 to raise funds for Centrepoint and other local chari

A developer's bid for a 245-house western expansion of Forfar has been knocked back by the Scottish Government for the second time. Guild Homes lodged plans in 2021 for what it said was the “natural expansion” of its Strathmore Fields development beside the Forfar community campus.

Kitchens International Ltd (KI) is celebrating 30 years in business. The contractor, which started as a single kitchen showroom in Edinburgh in 1994, has grown to become one of the UK’s largest and most respected independent luxury kitchen retailers, with six showrooms throughout Scotland. In

Goodstone Living and contractor McAleer & Rushe have topped out at Dockside, the ‘next generation’ build-to-rent residential scheme in Leith that will deliver 373 new homes.  The ceremony welcomed over 50 guests, including Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern and shadow ca