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Market confidence in Scotland’s construction sector has fallen sharply with workloads, profit margins and employment anticipated to fall over the coming twelve months.

Artisan Real Estate has been given the green light to demolish a vacant Glasgow office block and deliver a new 16-storey hotel.

The Royal Institution for Chartered Surveyors (RICS) today named Edinburgh Printmakers as the winner of its Project of the Year at the inaugural RICS Social Impact Awards for Scotland. A total of 35 construction projects, who’s entries celebrate the role of property professionals in transformi

Plans have been lodged for a new brewery, home brew school, bar and restaurant in Glasgow’s West End. Inn House Brewery Company has asked Glasgow City Council for permission to open its “brewery and beer experience centre” on Finnieston’s Haugh Road.

Redpath Construction has been appointed by NHS Lanarkshire to deliver the creation of a 24-bed trauma ward at University Hospital Wishaw.

Revised proposals by Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) to build a 600MW subsea electricity transmission link from Shetland to mainland Scotland have been approved by Ofgem.

KPMG is forecasting negative GVA (Gross Value Added) in Scotland of at least 8.1% in 2020, as the full economic cost of COVID-19 becomes increasingly clear. The analysis, which is based on the sectoral makeup of Scotland, predicts a significant drop this year, followed by a potential GVA growth in 2

A development with a partially-formed golf course near St Andrews could be resurrected after the site was put up for sale.

Commercial insurance firms are removing cover from their policies because of the coronavirus pandemic, according to the latest data from Mactavish.

Industry body Scottish Renewables has appointed seven new directors to its board. An election for the posts saw 20 eligible candidates enter the ballot, with a record turnout of 65% of the organisation’s 260 member companies voting.

Glasgow City Council is to begin planning how to best recover economically from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Iain Young comments on the importance for companies of reviewing their articles of association at this time. The social distancing restrictions imposed by the UK government has meant that all businesses have moved to remote working arrangements where it is possible for them to do so. The effect of t

Plans have been lodged to build 49 new homes next to the proposed Perth Eco Innovation Park at the Broxden roundabout. The John Dewar Lamberkin Trust (JDLT), in partnership with Craigrossie Properties and Bellway Homes, has submitted a planning application for the change of use for 1.8 hectares of p

Scotland’s £18 billion housing market will experience two waves of bounceback when the country emerges from lockdown, Scottish Building Society chief executive Paul Denton has forecast. Mr Denton said the sector has been hit by government stay-at-home measures for agents, surveyors

Aberdeenshire Council has approved plans to build 20 new homes in the north-east village of St Fergus.