A deal worth £850,000 is set to be agreed between the council and a housing association for three flats.

Council approval has been secured for a plan to sell three council flats in the West End to Glasgow West Housing Association.

The properties at Park Road, Woodlands, and Oakfield Avenue, Hillhead, were previously among 64 flats used by the council’s former housing service as temporary accommodation.

Known as ‘decant’ flats, they are often used when work needs to be carried out in a home that has become inhabitable, for reasons such as flooding.

Cllr Ruairi Kelly, the council’s convener for neighbourhood services and assets, said transferring properties to housing associations if they can be “better utilised” is great for the city.

A report by council officials revealed the flat at 29 Park Road (Flat 0/2) is a three-apartment property on the ground floor of a four-storey tenement, while the two flats at 23 Oakfield Avenue (1/1 and 2/2) are five-apartment properties.

At a contracts and property committee meeting last week, a council official said: “All three of the flats were declared surplus in 2012.  “There were historical title issues which prevented the disposal of the subjects at the time, however the title issues for these flats have now been resolved.”

The report added the two Oakfield Avenue flats have been “leased via Social Work Services and will be sold to Glasgow West Housing Association subject to the tenancy arrangements that are currently in place”.

The Park Road flat has been “earmarked for homeless provision” after the sale is completed. The housing association already owns a flat at 29 Park Road and is the social landlord with “the most significant numbers of social housing stock in the Hillhead area”.

Cllr Kelly thanked officials for their work on transferring properties to housing associations, as allowing social landlords to better use homes to “provide more housing for people in the city is great”.

“I look forward to seeing more of them at the committee,” he added.

City Property, wholly owned by the council, acquired 40 of the former decant flats while around 20 were sold to housing associations in 2015.

The council report added deals were agreed to “assist the associations in consolidating their ownership, enabling them to adopt factoring of the buildings, protect previous investment, improve property condition and management practices and help to stabilise blocks and areas through diversity of tenure”.