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The general trustees of the Church of Scotland have submitted plans to demolish the Garthdee Parish Church in Aberdeen and sell off the site for redevelopment. The building has lain empty for almost a year and has been a target for vandals.

North Ayrshire Council is driving forward ambitious regeneration plans that will breathe new life into residential estates in the Garnock Valley. The plans will see 48 flatted priorities, consisting of bedsits and one-bedroom apartments, demolished to make way for a combination of new housing, lands

As mainland Scotland entered the third coronavirus lockdown under national guidelines, the housing market braced itself for another slowdown following attempts to catch up due to the four-month shut down which commenced in March 2020. To restart the housing market, encourage vendors to increase thei

Dundee City Council members are to be asked to approve the listing of Dudhope Castle for sale next week. The castle, which is one of Dundee's oldest buildings, will be marketed as a potential hotel, housing or office development.

Lismore Real Estate Advisors advised a UK fund client on the £10.5m sale of the multi-let Belleknowes Industrial Estate in Inverkeithing to PATRIZIA and Caisson. The sale price reflected a net initial yield of 5.95%.

Network Rail workers rescued a dog from the tracks on sent him on board an engineering train to be reunited with his owners.

Fife Council's central and west planning committee has approved plans by NHS Fife for a new £33 million elective orthopaedic centre in Kirkcaldy.

Plans by brewery giant BrewDog to create new environmentally-friendly infrastructure at its Ellon headquarters have been approved by Aberdeenshire Council. An application was submitted last year for an anaerobic digestion plant, water treatment plant, Co2 recovery plant and associated energy ge

An £80 million investment in quality homes forms a cornerstone of Queens Cross Housing Association’s new plan to make the area a better place to live and work over the next five years.

Ayrshire Housing has appointed Cruden Building to deliver a £7 million affordable housing development at Troon in Ayrshire. The development is due to start on site next month and will see 52 new affordable homes being built in Troon and contributing to a 600 plus new homes expansion maste

Plans have been submitted to build 200 new homes in Uphall, West Lothian, alongside retails units and a new park and ride facility at the local train station.

Work has recently started on a new Hillcrest Homes development of 39 affordable modern apartments in Perth.

Scotland’s real estate and property sector was particularly impacted by trading difficulties during the final quarter of 2020 with the number of firms showing early signs of financial distress increasing by 35% compared to the same period last year. According to the latest data publi

Sweeping reforms to the UK Government’s Prompt Payment Code have been welcomed by SELECT as a major milestone in its long-running campaign for fairer payment terms for small businesses. Under the new obligations announced this week, nearly 3,000 companies which are signed up to the Code w

The Scottish Government's Building Standards Division on the latest changes to sprinkler regulations.