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Energy company Drax has acquired battery energy storage sites near the village of Neilston in East Renfrewshire and in East Kilbride.

Edinburgh property portal ESPC has revealed the capital’s top-performing rental postcodes for Q3 2025, highlighting where buy-to-let investors are achieving the strongest returns. Using rental data from Citylets alongside ESPC’s latest house price analysis, the report identifies the area

Historic Environment Scotland (HES) welcomed more than 600 young people across Scotland this week as they took part in Heritage Careers Week 2025. The festival of career events returned for its second year to spotlight opportunities in the heritage sector.

The number of UK construction companies in ‘critical’ distress has soared by 70.2% in the last year to 7,361, according to the latest monitor of the financial health of UK companies.

Property firm Rettie has forecast that Scottish house prices are to rise by 3% in 2025.

Borrowing by Scotland’s social housing providers has surged over the last year, with total available debt facilities exceeding £7 billion for the first time, the Scottish Housing Regulator has revealed. A new report from the regulator reveals a significant rise in lending, signalling gro

Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT) has unveiled ambitious plans for the redevelopment of Glasgow’s Buchanan Bus Station and the surrounding urban block, including new homes, offices, shops, and public spaces.

Shettleston Housing Association is partnering with Warmworks, an organisation with 10 years of experience in tackling fuel poverty, to deliver a new project that will make homes warmer for tenants in Glasgow. The Renewable Heat Project with Shettleston Housing Association will see 15 properties fitt

Kelty is set to undergo a major transformation after Fife Council’s West and Central Planning Committee approved a key stage of a 900-home masterplan for the village.

Aberdeen’s housing market contracted by 0.5% as sales grew nearly 13% in the third quarter of 2025, according to the latest report from the University of Aberdeen’s Centre for Real Estate Research. The findings, based on data supplied by Aberdeen Solicitors' Property Centre (ASPC) member

Plans for a large new housing development on the edge of Whitburn are set to return to West Lothian Council for consideration.

Move over, modern builders — 7,000 years ago, the team at Provadia–Solnitsata in Bulgaria were already raising multi-storey homes, managing a booming salt trade, and performing some very unusual “construction rituals”.

Commercial real estate advisor Avison Young has promoted Iain King to regional managing director for the firm’s Glasgow office.  Iain joined the business in 2023 as principal and head of building and project consultancy for Scotland, bringing with him over 25 years of experience as a char

Ahead of joining other industry leaders at this year’s International Retrofit Conference next week to explore how retrofit can move beyond isolated pilots to become financeable, scalable programmes, Tara Schmidt, executive director at Transition Finance Scotland, has outlined how to overcome s

Hardies Chartered Surveyors has appointed Casey Boyne as an associate within its Glasgow quantity surveying team. With specialisms in contract management, business development, negotiations, procurement, communication and project management, Boyne has worked in the construction industry for 25 years