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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.