NEARLY £3 million of improvements are set to be carried out to Dundee City Council’s housing stock.

SERENDIPITY is how Pauline Brotherton explains finding Cleish Mill eight years ago.

EVEN keen renovators sometimes need a break, and the catalyst for that break can be finding a property that’s too good to miss, and simply doesn’t need any work.

‘WE TOTALLY fell in love with this house,’ says Steph Middleton of her home at 2 Albert Terrace in Musselburgh. “We had been looking extensively and couldn’t find anywhere in our budget that offered the same amount of space, with all the original features that we love.”

The landlords are revolting. The government’s proposal to make them responsible for checking their tenants aren’t illegal immigrants prompted one property firm to accuse the government of “putting obstacles in the way of landlords expanding their portfolios”.

If they could pull their heads out of the sand, many interest-only mortgage borrowers would realise their best move is to sell up now, writes Dani Garavelli

ONE of Britain’s leading commercial and urban regeneration companies was today named as the preferred bidder to transform the “eyesore” former headquarters of Aberdeen City Council into a new and vibrant civic square in the heart of the Granite City.

HOUSE prices recorded their strongest annual increase in more than a year in April, amid further signs that the market is seeing a pick-up, Nationwide reported today.

Dave Hall and Alida Biagi look at each other quizzically and wonder why they didn’t get stressed out during the two-year creation of their new home.

THE fees house-buyers will pay under a new tax to replace stamp duty will not be revealed until September next year at the earliest, Finance Secretary John Swinney said.

TWO OF Scotland’s leading advice agencies have launched a new joint service to offer advice and support to struggling households in the Highlands.