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Sarah Speirs The supply of Scottish residential properties coming on to the market increased for the first time in three months during April, according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Residential Market Survey.

Edinburgh-based challenger banks Virgin Money and Sainsbury's Bank have both released strong trading results as they continue their relentless drive for market share. Sainsbury’s, which is based at Edinburgh Park, said underlying profit rose by nearly 5 per cent, to £65m last year.

Blair Nimmo The first quarter of 2016 has seen the number of failing businesses in Scotland rise by 10 per cent, according to latest figures from KPMG.

The average cost of renting agricultural land in Scotland has risen three per cent since last year, new figures show. Scotland's Chief Statistician today released the latest figures on Tenanted Agricultural Land in Scotland.

New tenants renting from private landlords in Scotland have been faced with the highest percentage rental increases in Britain outside London, according to a new survey. The latest figures from the HomeLet Rental Index reveal that rents on new tenancies signed on a UK rental property outside of Lond

Mark Wilson UK insurance giant Aviva, which employs about 1,300 staff at its hub in Perth, has revealed that chief executive Mark Wilson has more than doubled his pay packet having won praise over the £5.6 billion acquisition of Friends Life last April and guiding the firm to bumper profits.

New figures have revealed that the East Lothian town of Musselburgh has seen significantly high sales volumes of one and two bedroom flats over the past three months. According to the latest analysis from estate agents ESPC, figures which cover the period from December 2015 to February 2016, reveal

Research by BNP Paribas Real Estate indicates that house prices in Scotland will rise 11.4 per cent over the next four years. According to the firm the average home will cost £155,694 by 2020. But growth in the rest of the UK will be higher and out of 12 regions only the North of England and the No

The UK has seen a double-digit rise in economic crime against corporates in the last two years, with 55 per cent of organisations affected, an increase of 11 percentage points since 2014, significantly outstripping the level in countries such as the US (38 per cent) and China (28 per cent). Globally

The average price of a home in Scotland dipped last year, in contrast to the UK as a whole, according to new official figures. The average price of a typical UK home increased by £18,000 last year meaning that by December the average property was worth £ 288,000.

Ken Patullo Significant year-on-year rises in levels of ‘critical’ Scottish business distress were seen in the last quarter of 2015, according to data released today by business rescue and recovery specialist Begbies Traynor.

Latest data from one of the UK’s biggest mortgage lenders has shown UK house prices fell by 0.2 per cent between October and November. According to the latest Halifax house price index published this week, the average price of a UK home was £204,552 in November.

Unemployment in Scotland increased by 11,000 in the three months to September, to stand at 166,000. The rise over the summer months contrasted with the UK as a whole which saw the number of unemployed fall by more than 100,0000 over the same period, to stand at 1.75 million.

Edinburgh-based Lloyds Banking Group has posted a 28 per cent increase in profits before tax for the third quarter, up to £958m from £751m in the same period last year. However, the group,which includes Bank of Scotland, set aside another £500m to compensate customers over the mis-selling of Paym

Wages in the construction industry have risen at a faster rate than any other sector over the past 12 months, according to fresh analysis of the latest data. In the last year, average pay in the building trade shot up by 5.1 per cent, the examination of labour market statistics compiled by the Offic