Homes For Scotland

Blair Melville Four of Scotland's leading sectoral trade associations have combined to voice disquiet at the Scottish Government's decision to increase fees for planning applications by more than twice the rate of inflation.

Philip Hogg Homes for Scotland has greeted the 9 per cent increase in new home registrations north of the border with caution.

Margaret Burgess Housing Minister Margaret Burgess has announced a new price ceiling for Help to Buy (Scotland) which it is hoped will support more people to get onto or move up the property ladder.

John Swinney Finance secretary John Swinney delivered a budget yesterday which pledged to provide £4.5 billion of infrastructure investment in 2015-16.

Blair Melville Homes for Scotland has welcomed latest official statistics reporting an improvement in decision times for both major and local planning applications in the first quarter of 2014/15.

The importance that the Chancellor George Osborne and the Governor of the Bank of England attach to the need to increase housing supply is “hugely significant”, according to Homes for Scotland. During last week’s Mansion House speeches, the Chancellor outlined action he has taken which he said