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Japanese studio Naf Architect & Design rounded one corner of a newly-built Tokyo home to broaden a footpath for pedestrians who had grown used to cutting across the empty corner plot where it now stands. Akio Nakasa of Naf Architect & Design – who also recently completed a pair of houses t

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The owner of Edinburgh’s Ocean Terminal shopping centre has announced plans for a £6 million redevelopment the site with a scheme that will “include the introduction of new uses including residential and hotel development”.

Mark Guest More than half of Scottish oil and gas workers are pessimistic about their short-term prospects and three-quarters of the sector’s UK work force are considering working abroad, according to a new study.

The Scottish bill to recover medical costs for asbestos diseases will lead to over-burdening costs on compensators as well as delays to the claims process and will do little or nothing to improve the overall care services for asbestos victims, law firm DWF has said. The Recovery of Medical Costs for

Developers building homes in Aberdeen could be made subject to substitute payments more than twice as much than they currently bear for not building affordable homes after proposals to increase “commuted payments” was suggested under the 'Proposed Aberdeen Local Development Plan'. Housing develo

Ruth Davidson Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson has launched a fierce defence of Right to Buy as prime minister David Cameron announced plans to “radically expand” the scheme in England.

John Muir Inverkeithing-based contractor, house builder and property developer J W Muir Group has announced that it is on target for its best ever year with turnover breaking through the £100m barrier together with a corresponding increase in profits.

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A multimillion-pound Georgian townhouse in the exclusive west London area of Kensington has been painted in "garish" candy stripes after a planning row, has been branded "hideous" by neighbours. The property’s owner Zipporah Lisle-Mainwaring took the extraordinary decision to give her home a novel

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Sarah Speirs The lack of new houses being built in Scotland is pushing prices rapidly upwards, according to the latest RICS UK Residential Market Survey.

Derren McRae Aberdeen’s transition from North Sea oil town to global energy city will assist in reducing the impacts of a low oil price on the city’s commercial property market, according to a paper from property consultant CBRE.

City of Edinburgh Council is set to become the first local authority in Scotland to become a private landlord, if plans currently under consideration go ahead. The local authority is planning to create an arm's-length company called Edinburgh Homes, which will attract private investment to fund new

An Edinburgh townhouse with an ingenious outdoor “invisible” wheelchair lift has gone up for sale. The inventively engineered contraption was installed for £100,000 by multiple sclerosis sufferer Dr Angelica Goodden, a retired Oxford University historian.