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Scottish call for bonds via asset-backed 'national housing bank'
Scottish housing associations should club together to issue asset-backed bonds through a government-sponsored national housing bank, a leading expert has said read more
Global Accounts
A detailed look at the financial profiles of English and Scottish social landlords read more
Council gives RSL cheap funding boost by passing on prudential borrowing draw-downs
A Scottish housing association has secured development funding through a pioneering borrowing deal with its parent local authority which could be replicated by RSLs across ... read more
Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland
Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish RSLs' 2007/08 accounts and news read more
Scottish associations freed to borrow long-term
Housing associations in Scotland are now able to access long-term fixed-interest borrowings in the same way as their English and Welsh counterparts thanks to an amendment to ... read more
Scotland to set up independent regulator
The Housing (Scotland) Bill will also abolish the Right to Buy for new social tenants, and create a tenants' charter read more
Dunfermline sold to Nationwide
The Bank of England has sold Dunfermine Building Society's £672 million portfolio of housing association loans to Nationwide BS, two months after acquiring the assets during ... read more
Housing (Scotland) Bill delivers sweeping set of changes for affordable landlords
Legislation scraps Right To Buy, creates new regulator and landlords' registry, sets Charter standards and requires performance reporting read more
In Brief
DCLG financial management slated; open market Homebuy scrapped; Scottish Housing Regulator removes Moray Housing Partnership statutory board appointments; Croydon People's HA ... read more
Scottish accounts 2008/09
The Scottish sector's turnover topped £1 billion for the first time in 2007/08, an increase of 9 per cent year-on-year read more
