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Real estate advisor CBRE has announced it has completed the off-market sale of an office building in Glasgow city centre on behalf of Patrizia for in excess of £5.5million.

An almost empty two-building office development in Houston has opened itself up to offers in Bitcoin in an attempt to generate interest from tenants. One building at 50 Briar Hollow is completely vacant and the other is 70% empty, the aftermath of pandemic-related business setbacks.

The return of rail services to Levenmouth moved a step closer today with confirmation by transport minister Graeme Dey that the line would be double tracked and electrified.

A new £40 million industrial development has been proposed for a site bounded by Edinburgh Road and Legbrannock Road in Motherwell.

Ken Wales has been appointed divisional director of the specialist Roofing & Painting Division of HLS McConnell. Having started at McConnell in 2010 initially as general manager and most recently as head of business development, Mr Wales has vast experience in all aspects of flat roofi

Work on the first Dunfermline development to be funded by the Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region Deal is now under way.

Trident Building Consultancy has welcomed two new assistant building surveyors to its Edinburgh and Glasgow teams. Stacey Rowntree has joined the Edinburgh team from the Scottish Lime Centre Trust, while Rachel Campbell has rejoined Trident after completing her studies at Glasgow Caledonian Uni

Construction Scotland Innovation Centre CEO Stephen Good asks whether net zero is enough and whether Scotland could in fact go further to tackle climate change. With just a few months to go until the COP26 summit in Glasgow, sustainability is fast becoming the defining theme in public discourse

A judge in the Outer House of the Court of Session has determined that the former executive of a housebuilding company who was made redundant should be entitled to a bonus in respect of projects completed after his redundancy.

Wellhouse Housing Association (WHA) has unveiled its vision for the future with plans to bring almost 200 new homes to the area as well as investing over £3 million in its existing properties across Glasgow over the next four years. Director Martin Wilkie-McFarlane said he is looking

Miller Homes has unveiled two new developments in the East Lothian towns of Tranent and Whitecraig.

Public sector procurement authority SCAPE has made two additions to its senior team as it continues to strengthen its support for public sector built environment projects across the UK. Hilary Carter has been appointed as head of client management and will work closely with SCAPE’s client base

A plan to demolish an empty block of flats at St Ninians to build eight new cottage flats has been conditionally approved by Stirling Council. The local authority revealed plans last year to redevelop the derelict site at 24 Glasgow Road into new one and two-bedroom flats.

Simon Capaldi, office agency partner at Knight Frank Edinburgh, on returning to the office and how the transition may take shape. One year ago, some commentators were proclaiming the ‘death of the office’. Now, with vaccination programmes well underway, most people I speak to say th

The average price of a property in Scotland has increased by 6.3% in 12 months to reach £161,401 in April 2021 but has fallen by 4.1% compared to the previous month, according to the latest provisional statistics from the UK House Price Index.