Offering promotions to staff to prevent them from leaving is a growing trend in construction and could harm your business, write Mactaggart & Mickel Homes director, Marion Forbes. Most of us have heard about imposter syndrome – where an individual doubts their accomplishments and has a fea
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A worrying trend with new builds in Australia has been exposed by a building inspector as he slams a half-finished home as a 'complete shemozzle'. Victorian construction worker Jim Zacharias shared a clip of two homes in Sunbury, in Melbourne's northwest, with just centimetres between the gara
Scotland’s SME construction sector appeared to buck the trend in the second quarter of this year as the wider UK industry reorganised its workforce in preparation for a potential downturn.
House prices in Scotland continued to rise over the last three months, bucking the trend across other UK regions.
A writer has taken to the fashion magazine GQ to share why he thinks everyone is dressing like a Japanese builder.
Surveyors in Scotland report that house prices rose through the first quarter of 2025 according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Residential Market Survey, showing a more resilient upward trend than all other UK regions aside from Northern Ireland. According to the lates
The West Lothian Construction Forum kicks off its first meeting of 2025 tomorrow, with an anticipated rise in attendance from construction businesses continuing the trend towards the end of 2024.
Still trading and independent after more than 80 years in business, Cruden Group has bucked a trend for many SMEs. Fraser Lynes, managing director of Cruden Homes, speaks to Colin Cardwell about how the company is still adapting to meet today's challenges. Recent months have been both busy and encou
Alasdair Steele discusses the decline in institutional investment in Scottish commercial property over the past decade and how the recent pooling of local authority pension funds may serve as a catalyst to reverse this trend. It is no secret that UK institutional investors have cooled on Scotland in
A concerning late payment trend and a call for continuity of public non-residential RM&I are the key highlights from the latest State of the Roofing Industry member survey from NFRC and Glenigan.
Scotland's housing market exhibited a complex trend in October 2023, distinguished by a modest annual increase in average house prices, juxtaposed with a monthly decrease and a significant decline in residential sales volumes.
Adrian Aston Activity in the construction sector continues its upward trend but the skills shortage that has been evident for some could severely hold back a full recovery, national property and construction consultants Wakemans has warned.
The upward trend in the number of new homes registered by local authorities in Scotland in 2015 was halted slightly between June and August, according to new figures. The National House Building Council (NHBC) said that 3,471 new homes were registered over the quarter compared to 3,543 homes between
Uncertainty caused by Brexit is leading buyers and sellers in Scotland to sit tight in increasing numbers, according to the November 2018 RICS UK Residential Market Survey. The results from the latest survey show a weaker trend in sales than previous months with the headline indicators for
A more stable trend is now emerging in the Scottish housing market, according to the latest results for the RICS UK Residential Market Survey. Although anecdotal commentary from respondents remains mixed, contributors reported a rise in buyer demand whilst newly agreed sales also gained a


