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The latest graduate destination figures demonstrate that the labour market for building and architecture graduates is enjoying a vigorous recovery, despite being one of the sectors worst hit by the recession. Architecture and building graduates enjoyed higher than average employment rates with 85.1

Hector MacAulay Balfour Beatty has today announced that Hector MacAulay has been appointed as managing director for its regional construction and civil engineering business in Scotland and Ireland.

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A crowdfunding platform has sourced £843,100 from 308 investors in a block of flats in just ten minutes and 43 seconds. Punters took up the opportunity in Lincolnshire through crowdfunding site Property Partner.

Perth and Kinross delivers new council homes for Auchterarder Perth & Kinross Council's multi-million pound programme of social housing construction has taken another major step forward with the completion of a new development in Castlemains, Auchterarder.

As some of Scotland sees localised flooding, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) has launched a new interactive flood reporting tool in order to help communities across Scotland be flood-prepared. ‘Report–a-Flood’ (which can be viewed at: www.floodlinescotland.org.uk/report-a-flo

The UK Government should do more to help builders access a £525m loans scheme that it designed especially for them, says an industry expert at the UK200Group of independent chartered accountancy and legal firms. The Builders Finance Fund (BFF) was launched in April 2014 to support housing projects

Alex Johnstone A voluntary code should be adopted by house builders to end ‘rabbit hutch housing’, the Scottish Conservatives have announced.

Niall Stuart A new report has shown that Scotland will miss its 100 per cent renewable electricity target without further investment in onshore and offshore wind.

Pineapple Building, Dunmore. A land and property specialist firm has secured a new contract with The Landmark Trust to play a key role in upgrading some of Scotland’s most famous historic buildings.

Miller Developments Ltd and Craigrossie Properties Ltd have bought a former pigment manufacturing plant in Renfrewshire in a multi-million pound deal. Residential redevelopment plans for the 63-acre site will be submitted to the local council.

Scottish factoring and letting services firm Newton Property has purchased Glasgow-based property management company, Greenhome Property Management, for an undisclosed sum in a “substantial deal”. The acquisition, which comes hot on the heels of Newton Property’s recent merger with Aberdeen-ba

Eighty-six properties have been completed in the final phase of Sanctuary Scotland's £30 million regeneration of Shortroods, Paisley. The properties range from one-bedroom cottage flats to three-bedroom family houses. Fifty-six of the homes are now being rented by happy tenants.

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