Private rented accommodation accounts for around 4.2 million households – and in more than a third of these, the rent is paid in part or i...

 Work is set to begin which could transform this former potato farm in Lanarkshire's Douglas Valley, into Britain's first new garde...

Indeed a housing crisis exists, particularly for the rich - a crisis of which country estate to buy. The magazine for the lairds and the sq...

Housing is probably the one basic need which, were it properly satisfied, would be the most conductive to good emotional and mental health....

37% of people buying property in the most expensive neighbourhoods of central London did not intend them to be primary residences. "B...

Shelter Scotland has warned. that 5300 youngsters will wake up on Christmas Day in poor quality temporary accommodation with no prospect...

Ukrainian students are being forced out of their dormitories ahead of the the upcoming European Football Championship but will have to cont...

According to the Office for National Statistics, food prices have risen by almost 5% in 12 months, but incomes have not kept pace. Anne Hou...

Sri Lanka’s capital city Colombo is home to over 30 percent of the country’s population, one in every two people living in the Greater Colom...

Hundred of thousands of Scots are spiralling into debt by turning to payday loan companies or other expensive providers of credit to keep a ...

Bank of Scotland research suggested about 105,000 homes in Scotland were not being used. This meant about one in 25 houses was empty. Krist...

More than 1.4 million homes have failed to meet a key housing standard, new figures have revealed . In 2010 61% of houses, 1,014,000 in the...

About 23,000 houses are lying empty across Scotland, while more than 160,000 households are stuck on waiting lists for properties, accordin...

House prices in Edinburgh and Glasgow have slumped in the past three months and are set to fall further. The average price of a home in Edin...

Despite record low interest rates, falling by more than one-fifth since in 2008 the cost of owning and running a home in the UK has risen ov...

Repossession numbers began to rise again during the early part of 2011, jumping by 15%. A total of 9,100 properties were taken over by lende...

First-time buyers in Scotland face an 11-year struggle to break into the property market, with many more frozen out by low wages and high ...

More than half a million Scottish families are heading into winter weighed down by fears about keeping a roof over their heads, a new study ...

Sixty children are forced out of their homes in Scotland every day. The Sunday Herald can reveal that 22,000 young people each year have the...

Govanhill sits between the Gorbals and Queens Park on the south side of Glasgow. It is a place of traditional tenements and has been home to...