Around 1100 new homes will be built by City of Edinburgh Council if new proposals being developed get the go ahead. These will be the first Council homes to be built in nearly 20 years, and will be made up of housing for sale and rent.

The City of Edinburgh has seen the biggest increase in population numbers in Scotland over the decade to June 2007, according to statistics released earlier today by the General Register for Scotland.

The average price of a property in Edinburgh still remains in positive territory compared to a year ago, but the credit crunch is beginning to bite at the lower end of the market.

A group of solicitor firms, who account for around a quarter of the properties sold in the Edinburgh area, are hoping that a new cashback scheme aimed at helping first time buyers will stave off the worst of the credit and housing meltdown.

The property slowdown may finally have reached North of the Border last month, according to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

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Would-be first time buyers face the "hardest struggle ever" to get onto the property ladder in Scotland according to a new report from housing charity Shelter.

Figures released today by Edinburgh Solicitors and Property Centre (ESPC) reveal the housing market in Edinburgh has continued to cool with annual inflation falling to its lowest level since 1993. A rise of just 1.2% took the average price in Edinburgh from £207,669 in the first quarter of 2007 to £210,123 during the first three months of 2008.

The Scottish Government unveiled plans for a local income tax of 3p on the pound yesterday to replace the Council Tax.

The Council Tax is the only tax set by Edinburgh City Council. It is a local tax on domestic properties, based on the "open market value" of your home, which goes towards funding local public services in the capital.

House prices may be dropping throughout the most of the UK, but in Scotland prices still remain in positive territory, although slowing in pace, according to the monthly report by Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).

Granton Harbour, part of the waterfront in the North of Edinburgh, has been shortlisted for the Plook on the Plinth Award for the "Most Dismal Town in Scotland." The Plook is the most significant of the three Carbuncle awards

The City of Edinburgh Council kicks off its third annual "responsible renting week", Letwise, today.

Channel 4's flagship property programme Location, Location, Location has rated Edinburgh this year's top place to live in the UK last night.

By 2030 many houses in Scotland could be independent of the national grid, powered autonomously, sharing, redistributing and trading locally-generated electricty, and using micro-energy production and conservation technology to produce three quarters of the country's energy requirements.