Search: raise

Ed Molyneux Edinburgh-based accountancy software solutions firm FreeAgent has reported a net loss of £1 million for the six months ended September 30.

Stuart Preston In recent years, Scotland’s economy has become increasingly international in scale. While Brexit negotiations create some debate over how we might trade with global markets in the future, it’s widely accepted that long term growth relies on the country maintaining trading ties wit

Mark Carney The Bank of England has today reversed the last cut in interest rates taken in the immediate aftermath of last year’s vote to leave the EU and lifted the historically low base rate from 0.25 per cent back to 0.5 per cent, marking the first increase since July 2007.

The average price of a property in Scotland in July 2017 was £149,185 – an increase of 4.8 per cent on July in the previous year and an increase of 2.8 per cent when compared to the previous month, latest figures from the Registers of Scotland has shown.

The average price of a home in the UK went up by nearly £2,000 to £223,000 in June, according to official figures from the Office of National Statistics.

May saw Scottish retail sales increase by 0.8 per cent on a like-for-like basis compared to May 2016, when they had decreased by 0.6 per cent, according to the latest analysis from KPMG and the Scottish Retail Consortium.

Ken Patullo Businesses in Scotland saw the biggest reduction in the UK of the most serious signals of business distress in the first quarter of 2017, according to new data released today by business rescue and recovery specialist Begbies Traynor.

Emma Chalmers The number of Perthshire property sales completed by one estate agent ’s Perth office rose by 38 per cent year-on-year during the final months of 2016 (October – December).

The average cost of renting a standard-sized private home has increased in all areas of Scotland apart from one, according to new figures. Private Sector Rent Statistics, Scotland, 2010 to 2016:

House purchase approval numbers in the UK during September were 15 per cent lower year-on-year, according to latest data from the British Bankers Association.

The total number of millionaires in Britain has fallen as a result of the turbulence on global markets, according to new data.

Retired homeowners cashed in more than £934 million of property wealth in the first six months of the year as a buoyant housing market continued to boost retirement incomes, analysis from leading over-55s finance specialist KeyRetirement.com shows.

House prices across Scotland have continued to rise following a sustained dip in the supply of new properties coming on to the market, surveyors have reported today.

Scotland’s finance sector will be voting overwhelmingly to ‘remain’ in the EU at the polls tomorrow, according to our very own survey of Scotland’s finance professionals. Almost three quarters of the almost 500 SFN readers who took part in the poll say they are set to vote to ‘remain’ in