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Ken Barclay The Scottish Property Federation (SPF) has welcomed the investment incentives contained in the independent business rates review but has raised concerns regarding the complex challenges faced while redeveloping listed buildings.

The development at St. Stephens School in Blairgowrie Carling Property Group (CPG) has become the first private developer in the country to receive affordable housing grant aid from the Scottish Government.

Moray Council has appointed Morgan Sindall Construction and Infrastructure to carry out a £2 million extension and refurbishment project at Milne’s Primary School, in the village of Fochabers. Located on the High Street, the existing 1846 Gothic School is Category A listed and built of ashlar san

The £6.5 million fourth phase of the Bishopbriggs Relief Road project has been delayed until early next year. Following a recent meeting between East Dunbartonshire Council and Network Rail, the local authority has confirmed the scheme's completion date has been pushed back to early 2018.

John Gallacher at the Athletes’ Village development in Dalmarnock John Gallacher champions the use of mixed tenure developments to create thriving and sustainable communities as he looks back on four decades spent in the housing industry.

(from left) SBHA CEO Julia Mulloy, home investment co-ordinator Drew Moore, Christine Grahame MSP, Paul Wheelhouse MSP and Kenny Lynn, director at contractor James Swinton and Co. MSPs visit Scottish Borders Housing Association renovation project

Ex-footballer Gary Neville has abandoned his plan to build an £8 million eco-house likened to the home of the ‘Teletubbies’. Comparisons with the BBC programme were based on the building's unusual semi-submerged design, intended to minimise its impact on the moorland landscape.

(from left) Michelle Motion, finance director; Sandy Adam, executive chairman and Innes Smith, chief executive officer Private and affordable housebuilder Springfield Properties has reported annual revenues of more than £100 million for the first time.

Jeff Fairburn Profits at Persimmon have increased by 30% as the hosuebuilder continues to reap the rewards of its long term strategy.

Glencairn Properties is to submit plans to turn a former iconic Art Deco cinema in Edinburgh into a residential development of around 37 apartments. The State Cinema in Leith closed in 1972 and has since been used as a bingo hall, a nightclub and church.

Councils in Tayside have lost a legal bid to win damages from a local quarry merchant they claim supplied faulty materials for roadworks. Tayside Contracts, the commercial trading arm of Angus, Dundee and Perth & Kinross councils, raised an action at the Court of Session in Edinburgh following a

Planning permission in principle for a new 1,500-home development in the Cairngorms National Park has been extended for a further three years following a Section 42 application to vary a condition of the previously granted consent.

Drum Property Group is to deliver 220 apartments in Finnieston Drum Property Group is targeting growth after agreeing an additional £17.5 million finance package with Royal Bank of Scotland.

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has successfully recruited a new cohort of lawyers to its construction adjudicator panel. Shona Frame (CMS Cameron McKenna LLP), Richard Silver (Silver Shemmings LLP), Brandon Malone (Brandon Malone & Co), Peter Aeberli (3 Paper Buildings), Ken

Stuart Nicholson, loan investments director at Scottish Widows, LAR chairman Andrew Robertson, housing minister Kevin Stewart and Alan Brennan, relationship director at Bank of Scotland Commercial Real Estate LAR Housing Trust secures ‘game-changing’ £65m funding boost