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Ruaridh Nicol: Sustainability doesn’t mean our buildings have to lack creativity

Published 2 months ago

Holmes Miller associate Ruaridh Nicol explores some of the key challenges currently facing the industry when it comes to sustainable design, and how these can be overcome.

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Martin Smith: Government and industry must rise to the challenge and beat the housing crisis

Published 2 months ago

Ahead of tomorrow’s Scottish Housing Day, Muir Group CEO Martin Smith looks at some changes on the horizon, particularly from the Programme for Government, and how we can overcome today’s challenges to give the people of Scotland the homes and communities that they deserve.

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Angelique Bret: Dynamic pricing in the crosshairs following outrage over Oasis tickets

Published 2 months ago

Businesses across sectors have been advised to review their approach to dynamic pricing after the practice drew scrutiny in the context of Oasis’ reunion tour, writes Angelique Bret.

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Gary Gray: How timber systems can help the home building industry fix the housing crisis

Published 2 months ago

Insight: Gary Gray from Muir Timber Systems outlines the benefits of timber frame builds and how they could play a key role in fixing the current housing crisis.

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Derek Hogg: Hedging your bets – RSLs approach to managing interest rate exposure

Published 2 months ago

Insight: Changes in lending practices have seen RSLs move away from their traditionally cautious approach to managing interest rate fluctuations to explore more complex options, writes Derek Hogg.

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Euan Bathgate: Key challenges facing rural housing providers in Scotland

Published 2 months ago

Senior solicitor Euan Bathgate outlines some of the challenges faced by rural RSLs compared to those in the central belt.

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Anthony Marley: £700k cut to cladding remediation scheme should be received with caution

Published 2 months ago

Insight: On the back of the recent announcement by the Scottish Government to cut £700,000 from the cladding remediation programme set up by the Housing (Cladding Remediation) (Scotland) Act 2024, Anamore director Anthony Marley expresses his disappointment and caution at the decision.

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Alasdair Steele: Will local authority pension fund reforms deepen the buyer pool for Scottish commercial property?

Published 2 months ago

Alasdair Steele discusses the decline in institutional investment in Scottish commercial property over the past decade and how the recent pooling of local authority pension funds may serve as a catalyst to reverse this trend.

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Marcus Di Rollo: Why more Edinburgh landlords are opting to invest in Dundee

Published 2 months ago

Insight: Marcus Di Rollo, lettings director at full-service legal firm Gilson Gray, looks at why the City of Discovery offers an attractive proposition for landlords priced out of properties in the capital.

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Kirsty Wells: Reflecting on a decade of the Scottish Social Housing Charter

Published 2 months ago

Insight: Kirsty Wells, assistant director of ARK Consultancy, highlights the progress and challenges over ten years of the Scottish Social Housing Charter and the lessons that can be learned from Grenfell.

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Sarah Cooper: The Housing (Scotland) Bill - a potential new era for housing law in Scotland

Published 2 months ago

Sarah Cooper from Thorntons Solicitors outlines changes that landlords and tenants should expect in the Housing (Scotland) Bill.

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Bryony Willett: Home in Scotland outlines asks of government to deliver affordable homes

Published 2 months ago

Insight: We must remind the Scottish Government that to deliver their targets for affordable homes we need one vitally important commitment, writes Bryony Willett, director for Scotland at Home Group.

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Chris Boyle: Community wealth building during the construction phase

Published 2 months ago

Creating meaningful social value is at the heart of every project we deliver, but after attending recent events, the industry can do better when it comes to articulating how the construction phase of a project can build wealth and create lasting legacies for communities, writes Chris Boyle, framework director at McLaughlin & Harvey.

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Karen Little: Morphe Cosmetics – what insolvency practitioners need to know about pre-pack sales

Published 2 months ago

Karen Little takes a look at what the Morphe Cosmetics case demonstrates about the the pros and cons of pre-pack sales.

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Susannah Donaldson: More work to do on gender pay gap

Published 2 months ago

Susannah Donaldson considers how a new government will impact efforts to close the gender pay gap.

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