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A £1.4 million project to strengthen and re-paint a railway bridge in Paisley will begin next month.

Baird Lumsden, the specialist rural property arm of DM Hall Chartered Surveyors, has recruited three more young property professionals to boost its team in response to continuing demand for rural properties throughout Scotland. Tom Lennie, Kirstie McLachlan and Sophie Watt have all joined the Bridge

A pioneering partnership has been unveiled to build a new £1 million library for the village of Strathblane.

Barratt Developments Scotland has published new research which it said shows the housebuilder is well on its way to meeting top energy efficiency standards set out by the Scottish Government. The study by the company, which owns Barratt and David Wilson homes, shows that all of its new homes ar

Queen’s Park Football Club has tweaked the redevelopment proposals for its home at Lesser Hampden and now plan to demolish the "oldest football building in the world".

Multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy Harley Haddow has set out its growth plans as demand remains strong across the UK. The firm, which has bases in London, Edinburgh and Glasgow, closed 2020/21 with a strong financial performance, despite the industry-wide challenges of Covid-19.

BBC Studioworks, a commercial subsidiary of the BBC that provides studios and post-production services to the TV industry, is to operate the new TV studio at the £11.9 million Kelvin Hall Film & Broadcast Hub.

Property consultancy Galbraith has appointed Mark Paton as head of the firm’s residential division for the Scottish Borders, with responsibility for residential agency, estate and country house sales. Mark Paton replaces Alex Inglis, who is retiring after 30 years as head of the Galbraith resi

Eildon Housing has secured permission from Scottish Borders Council’s executive committee to build a new development of 57 high quality homes in Chirnside.

Taylor Wimpey East Scotland has donated a public access defibrillator (PAD) to Gorebridge Community Development Trust and its community hub, The Gorebridge Beacon to benefit the community in the local area. As part of a joint initiative with the British Heart Foundation (BHF), the home builder is do

Mortgage lenders have announced a voluntary moratorium on possessions from Monday 13 December until Tuesday 4 January 2022.

The UK housing market saw another month of declining new listings, which may frustrate the growing number of prospective buyers, according to the latest UK Residential Market Survey published today by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).

A planning application has been submitted for an expansion of the Aberdeen village of Peterculter first unveiled almost two years ago. The development boundary (Image by Halliday Fraser Munro)

East Lothian Council’s planning committee has granted permission for the final new homes at Hallhill in Dunbar and a further 100 homes as part of the wider development at Windygoul South, Tranent. The final phase of the wider development at Hallhill, will see 197 houses and 48 flats delivered

A new trade body has been launched to promote the interests of modular building firms and accelerate the growth of the sector.