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Property consultancy JLL has appointed a new director to its Scottish investment team. Andrew Shiells will join JLL as director within its capital markets team following five years with Lambert Smith Hampton.

The Specialist Engineering Contractors’ Group is to keep the pressure on political parties to tackle late payment amidst a deteriorating picture of payment abuse and insolvencies in the construction industry. The trade body has said it will write to all parties the day after next month’s

Aberdeen City Council spent £38.5 million on scheduled maintenance across its 21,974 properties during 2018/19, a housing performance report has revealed.

Barratt Homes has announced plans to launch a new development of 210 homes in Carnbroe. 

An award-winning charity operating in one of Glasgow’s most challenged suburbs is receiving an enlightening boost from glazing systems provider Cube Glass.

Work has commenced at a new residential development comprising a selection of five-bedroom detached homes in Linlithgow.

Former football Peter Lovenkrands has successfully prevented the development of a new home next to his mansion.

Mosaic Architecture + Design has submitted a planning application with Iceni Projects for the construction of a Holiday Inn hotel on the former Glasgow Garden Festival site at Pacific Quay.

CCG (Scotland) Ltd has appointed three new directors to the company board as the firm reported its third consecutive year of growth. Stephen Ruxton, John Baggley & Graeme Wylie

Stewart Milne is to vacate his role at Aberdeen Football Club after 22 years at the helm. Aberdonian Dave Cormack is set to become the new chairman in a restructuring at Pittodrie which includes new investment and a strategic partnership with US Major League Soccer Club Atlanta United.

Aberdeen-based integrated mechanical and electrical services company EnerMech has announced the appointment of industry heavyweight Christian Brown as its new chief executive officer. A highly experienced, successful and well-regarded business leader, Chris was previously CEO of global engineering a

Frasers Property has signed a 15-year lease with Starbucks on a new purpose-built ‘drive thru and drive up’ coffee and food outlet at Hillington Park in Glasgow.

With housing completions in 2018 exceeding 20,000 for the first time in a decade, Homes for Scotland (HFS) has stressed the need for more SME home builders if growth is to be continued.  In a new report entitled ‘Small Scale Home Builders:  Increasing Supply’, which was pu

A Scottish Property Federation (SPF) analysis of the latest commercial property sales figures has shown a rebound in the total value of sales in Scotland in Q3 (July to September) 2019. In total, £1.2 billion was transacted in the quarter, nearly double the total value of commercial prope

The CEOs of Scotland’s five hub partnerships will celebrate another successful year at Edinburgh’s Education Buildings Scotland conference this week.