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A vastly experienced Edinburgh property professional has joined the team at solicitors and estate agents Lindsays. Simon Donaldson has been appointed as a property manager within the firm’s residential property team, based in the capital, following 17 years with Simpson & Marwick.

Edmond de Rothschild Real Estate Investment Management (REIM) has completed a £31 million build-to-rent development in Glasgow, the first in Scotland for its £545m UK residential investment fund. Located on Minerva Street, adjacent to Exhibition Centre Station, the G3 Square development

Progress to identify, assess and fix unsafe cladding on Scotland’s medium and high-rise multi-residential buildings will be accelerated, under plans to safeguard homeowners and residents in this year’s Programme for Government (PfG). A Cladding Remediation Bill will give ministers new po

A commitment of more than £6 million has been agreed by Stirling Council to create a new social housing development in Plean. Members of the council's Community Wellbeing and Housing Committee approved plans on 31 August to begin the procurement process for the construction of 24 properties, s

The LA home where Marilyn Monroe lived before her death could be demolished. The owners of the $8.35 million bungalow have filed to tear down the Hacienda-style home, where the body of the 'Some Like It Hot' star was discovered in August 1962.

MIXED USE and NON-RESIDENTIAL Applicant:  Aberdeen City Council

Construction of the new Peebles High School building will commence this Autumn following the conclusion of the initial enabling works at the site.

Port of Aberdeen has been crowned as Scotland's largest berthage port following the completion of a transformational £420 million expansion project. Quayside construction is complete at Aberdeen South Harbour and the expanded port now offers its customers and port users 8km of quayside.

Engineering consulting group COWI has been awarded a contract by renewable energy company Drax to provide consultancy services to support works in advance of the Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) of the expansion of an existing pumped storage hydro-electric generation station located beneath Ben

Scottish engineering and consulting services provider Wood Group has secured a c.£260 million ($330m) partnership agreement with Harbour Energy, a UK producer of oil and gas in the North Sea.

Built Environment – Smarter Transformation (BE-ST), in collaboration with Coaction Training CIC (formerly known as Carbonlite), has announced a new training initiative aimed at revolutionising the construction industry's approach to sustainable building.

Dunfermline-based furniture and fit-out specialist Deanestor has reported an impressive financial performance, bouncing back to pre-pandemic profit levels and experiencing a 35% increase in turnover, which reached £19 million in the year ending 31 December 2022. 

Architects at Holmes Miller have unveiled plans for Caledonia Gladiators’ new multi-million-pound stadium.

Vattenfall has appointed Jenny Curtis as the new managing director of its heat business in the UK. Jenny picks up the reigns from interim managing directors Stuart Allison and Katja Raabe-Münzberg, having worked with the division for almost three years.

Work to regenerate and breathe new life into Paisley’s historic West End is officially underway.