Housing

Mortgage adviser Liam Cockerham has offered his expert advice to first-time buyers on the pitfalls to avoid, including one easy mistake to make

The one easy mistake to avoid when buying your first home

Edinburgh became the first city in Scotland to declare an official housing emergency, but the problem extends across Scotland. Picture: PA

Exclusive 'Disruptive' change needed to Scotland's housing system, report warns

Piecemeal policies for Scotland's housing crisis don't cut it Professor Duncan Maclennan

Jobs saved by "historic" US trade deal while BA orders new Boeing jets

Deliveroo has agreed a £2.9bn takeover.

Business in two minutes: Deliveroo takeover and northern start-up boom

Scottish Green co-leaders Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater with former first minister Nicola Sturgeon after signing the Bute House Agreement in 2021.

Analysis Bute House Agreement: What has been ditched one year on

The amendments would see more taxes for holiday let owners.

Scottish holiday let owners to face tax hikes under new proposals

Money stacked on top of a council tax bill. PIC: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

Plans tabled for first council tax revaluation in more than 30 years

Ad Feature How much your property could achieve while helping housing crisis

Hundreds of prisoners were released early to free up space in Scotland’s overcrowded prisons.

Exclusive Edinburgh Council spends £36,000 housing prisoners released early

The public will no longer face legal requirements to replace gas boilers

SNP scraps gas boiler ban amid fears heat pump push 'burdening' public

Rydal Mount (Credit: Ashdown Jones, The Lakes and Lune Valley)

William Wordsworth's Victorian cottage on Lake Windermere up for sale

Scots are dissatisfied with public services

Poll: Scots more likely to think local public services have got worse

Swinney told to publish boiler ban plan amid 'damaging' business fears

By 2040, more than 730,000 people in Scotland will be aged 75 or over.

Scottish Budget boosts housing, yet gaps remain in support services

Scotland's planning system is too slow, rent controls have driven away many buy-to-let investors and the wait for electricity connections to the grid can run into years (Picture: Damian Gillie/Construction Photography/Avalon)

How the SNP is making Scotland’s housing crisis worse Murdo Fraser

Tom Cooper, of Glengarry Community Development Trust, with the cabins set in the woods.

'Cabin fever' as Highland community opens up holiday huts in the woods

Aoife Deery, Senior Social Justice Policy Officer at Citizens Advice Scotland

Moving towards a rented sector that works for everyone

Millions is being spent on buying up private newbuild properties for social housing.

Exclusive Edinburgh Council spend almost £100m buying up private newbuild homes

Plans for an app to secretly record noisy neighbours shelved

Stop talking about housing as a national emergency Prof Duncan Maclennan

A self-portrait of Franki Raffles during a trip to the Soviet Union.

Exclusive The touring exhibition offering a glimpse inside working women's lives

The Isle of Sanda off the Kintyre peninsula has a new owner. PIC: Mowi.

Uninhabited Scottish island looks to future as tourism to be revived

Allan, Coursington and Draffen Towers will be demolished in a controlled explosion

High rise tower blocks to be destroyed in controlled explosion

Homelessness is rising, and the number of people sleeping rough has soared

Housing crisis reveals how Scotland has been damaged by SNP rule Jackie Baillie

The number of house transactions in Scotland climbed to 98,000 in 2024 and may rise further this year (Picture: Alistair Linford)

Where is the housing market headed in 2025?

Some of the housing developments set to spring up in Edinburgh over the next few years.

Edinburgh Housing Developments 2025: 29 planned schemes

Thousand of homes in the city are lying empty. Picture: John Devlin

Empty home owners urged to help tackle accommodation crisis

The initiative aims to support UK mission to reduce energy bills, create green jobs, and advance climate action

Social housing in UK to have cleaner energy come new initiative

Eddie Wighton (left) and Mike Pratt (right) of Invertay Homes

Why Scottish sustainable house building can learn lesson from EV sales

The Scotsman has teamed up with Cyrenians for its winter campaign.

17,000 Scottish children homeless last Christmas amid call to action

An artist's impression of the Crosswinds development

Plans approved for major urban village with 3,000 homes

Developers want to transform the site at Orchard Brae.

Planners call for 8-storey student housing scheme to be rejected

A homeless man begs for small change on the streets. Photo: Getty Images

Swinney urged to step in amid unlawful homelessness response row

Mark Diver and Nick Harrold are outreach workers with Cyrenians' Homeless Navigators Project, working with homeless people in Edinburgh.

Cyrenians fights against homelessness on Edinburgh's streets

Exclusive Plans for new 'urban quarter' in Edinburgh recommended for approval

First Minister John Swinney looks on as Finance Secretary Shona Robison presents the government's Budget. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

The key battlegrounds for Scottish Budget negotiations

Finance Secretary Shona Robison, flanked by First Minister John Swinney, responds to questions over the Scottish Budget. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Analysis The 8 key Scottish Budget announcements and what they mean for you

The Scottish Government declared a housing emergency earlier this year

Exclusive SNP urged to back 'largest home building programme of our lifetime'

The new affordable homes at Scalasaig on Colonsaig signal a 'turning point' in the balance of housing on the island which has a high intensity of second homes and holiday properties.

Scottish island at a 'turning point' as holiday homes outnumbered

A view overlooking Bettyhill, on the north stretch of the Highland region, west from Thurso

The 'poor' state of the Scottish Highlands and islands revealed

In 2023 alone, 149 pregnant women were among the homeless in Edinburgh

Exclusive Hundreds of pregnant women among homeless in Edinburgh

Summerhall has become a leading Fringe venue over the last decade.

Luxury housebuilder pledges arts will remain 'priority' at Summerhall

Finance Secretary Shona Robison needs support from political rivals

SNP 'willing to work' with Tories and Labour on Scotland’s finances

Clockwise from top: Robin Presswood, Sebastian Burnside, John Curry, Susanne Miller, Paul Lawrence

Exclusive The biggest crisis hindering economic growth? Scotland's houses

This is the first in a series of articles about the roundtable, which was held at The Balmoral in Edinburgh and chaired by Joshua King, Head of Business at The Scotsman

Exclusive Scotland’s future relies on solving a problem - nobody has any money

'Lifestyle inflation' is to blame, according to 4,000 adults

Fewer than one in 10 millennials have hit their financial goals

Rent controls will only make Scotland's housing crisis worse (Picture: Christopher Furlong)

Why rent controls end up having adverse consequences for tenants John Blackwood

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Scotland has failed to meet its latest target for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, the latest official figures show. Picture: John Giles/PA Wire

Fail: Scotland misses climate target

Pro-independence protesters with Scottish Saltire flags (top) march for Scottish independence. Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images

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