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Scotland's housing market could recover quicker from coronavirus than the last financial crash if the government freezes sales taxes to help home buyers, according to the Scottish Building Society. CEO Paul Denton said support measures such a Land and Buildings Transaction Tax holiday coul

Global real estate advisor CBRE is urging the Scottish Government not to delay the planned business rates revaluation in 2022 following the UK Government’s announcement to postpone the 2021 revaluation in England. CBRE said it is aware that a deferment of the Scottish 2022 Revaluation and

A community development company has completed the purchase of land to provide affordable homes on the island of Colonsay.

Furniture and fit out specialists Deanestor has provided clinical equipment to three of the new NHS field hospitals – Glasgow, Harrogate and Birmingham. At the Louisa Jordan Hospital in Glasgow, Deanestor worked with principal contractors Balfour Beatty, and Robertson Group, Graham Group and K

An architect has been fined for creating a design for a home that was too big for the plot on which it was to be built.

A world-first programme using green hydrogen to heat homes could be built in Fife if proposals are approved by energy regulator Ofgem. 

Domestic gas and electricity supplier Ovo Energy has announced plans to cut 2,600 jobs and close its offices in Selkirk and Glasgow’s Waterloo Street. The company, which took over SSE’s retail division at the beginning of the year in a £500 million deal, had intended to reduce staf

Construction work on the Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) offshore wind farm is expected to resume shortly following a pause due to the outbreak of coronavirus. Matthias Haag, NnG project director, and David Webster, senior port manager, Port of Dundee

The UK Government has extended the maximum loan size available through the Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CLBILS) from £50 million to £200m. The move aims to ensure those large firms which do not qualify for the Bank of England’s COVID Corporate Financing Faci

A new online service for small and medium sized employers to recover statutory sick pay (SSP) payments they have made to their employees will launch on May 26, the UK Government has announced today. Announced in the March 11 Budget as part of a package of support measures for businesses affected by

Briar Homes marketing manager Ainslie McCrone on managing buyer interest as the housebuilding sector awaits the easing of lockdown restrictions. There are certain milestones in life that are set in, well, stone, and serve as evidence of our British-ness – or Scottish-ness for that matter.

East Lothian Council is pressing for an area of the county, which includes the planned exemplar new town at Blindwells and the former Cockenzie Power Station site, to be designated by Ministers as a National Development. The Scottish Government has asked planning authorities to suggest projects or s

The chairman of Glasgow-based plant, tool and equipment hire firm GAP Group has retired after 14 years in the role.

Roddy Cormack, accredited specialist in construction law and legal director at Scottish law firm Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie LLP, explores the role of designers in the return to operations for the construction industry in the new COVID normal. It’s important to remember the responsibiliti

KR Developments Residential Ltd has submitted plans to build hundreds of new homes with roof gardens at the site of the old Partick Central Station in Glasgow's West End.