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The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has been granted observer status for this year's United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28), to be held from 30 November to 12 December at Expo City, Dubai.

Family-owned steel company Alexander (Scotland) & Co Ltd has transitioned into employee ownership, handing their respective employees a 100% share via the creation of an employee ownership trust (EOT). Alexander (Scotland) & Co Ltd has been serving steel customers across Central Scotland for

Work is underway to fully understand the presence of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) across the school estate after the potentially dangerous material was found in at least 35 schools across the country, the Scottish Government has confirmed.

Aberdeen's Jamieson & Carry, an independent, family-owned jewellery business founded in 1733, has unveiled the next phase of its multi-million-pound expansion plans at its Union Street store. A planning application to combine the existing store at 142 Union Street with the neighbouring building

Independent law firm Anderson Strathern has strengthened its partnership with the promotion of seven new partners and the appointment of a further two. Among the seven directors being promoted to partner is Chris Devlin, who is accredited by the Law Society of Scotland as a specialist in planning la

MIXED USE and NON-RESIDENTIAL Applicant: Leith MC Ltd.

Plans have been lodged for more than 100 flats on a former Arnold Clark site in Glasgow.

Dumfries and Galloway Council is set to chart the course for sustainable housing development for tears to come with the agreement of its Strategic Housing Investment Plan (SHIP).

Kingdom Initiatives and the University of St Andrews are celebrating the handover of 22 new affordable homes in the town as the first phase of an exciting new ‘university village’ completes. Working in partnership for the first time, this pioneering project at The Grange will offer much-

Work is underway on a new development of council housing which will provide affordable properties for rent in Cumbernauld.

Subscribers to our sister publication Scottish Housing News passed the 11k milestone last month with 225 new readers of the free daily newsletter for Scotland's dynamic social housing sector taking the subscribers' total to 11,050. Daily subscribers have grown by an impressive 23% in the last year w

Glasgow City Council’s ambition to regenerate the Clyde Waterfront took a further step forward with the topping out ceremony for Dandara Living’s new Granary Quay development at Glasgow Harbour. Situated on the site of former grain warehouses, Granary Quay is a build-to-rent development

The head of a real estate agency which claimed to have sold a flat to a dog has been arrested in Iran. The arrest came after the agency published a video showing a couple signing over their home to a small white dog named Chester, The Jerusalem Post reports.

Environmental services company Recycl8 has been awarded with a six-figure grant from the Low Carbon Manufacturing Challenge Fund (LCMCF). This LCMCF is facilitated by Scottish Enterprise as part of the Scottish Government’s initiative, ‘Making Scotland’s Future’, to promote l

Perth & Kinross Council (PKC) has become the first place in the world to use spiral-flow battery technology to reduce its carbon footprint. Designed, developed and manufactured by StorTera, an Edinburgh-based developer of intelligent energy storage solutions, the project aims to develop a protot