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Business advisory and accountancy firm Johnston Carmichael has expanded its Edinburgh premises, after the firm signed up to an extra 1,400 sq ft of office space at 5 Melville Street. The deal takes its overall office footprint in the capital to close to 15,000 sq ft&nbs

Tim Cooper The proportion of Scottish companies at elevated risk of insolvency fell slightly between October and November, by 1.3 per cent – the first monthly fall in nearly two years, according to research by insolvency and restructuring trade body R3.

Ross McEwan Bailed-out lender Royal Bank of Scotland has said it is setting aside £100 million to deal with "the more uncertain economic outlook" as it reported another rise in profits.

Jennifer Craven Jennifer Craven, lawyer and civil fraud and asset recovery expert at law firm Pinsent Masons, writes on the rise of financial crime in the UK.

Only around a third of finance professionals in large businesses say their organisation has started scenario planning for the impact of Brexit on key areas, such as hiring/human resources and supply chain/logistics.

John Flint Europe’s biggest bank HSBC has announced a 4.6 per cent increase in pre-tax profit for the first half of 2018.

Recent research by PwC has indicated that house prices in Scotland are going to escalate by 20 per cent in the next 5 years, property investment company Grant Property is predicting that the student buy-to-let market in Scotland will skyrocket too, especially as it can make money for the student an

Salaries for Scottish property professionals have increased to a ten year high, according to a new survey. The 2018 Salary Survey by RICS and Macdonald & Company found that the base salaries grew on average by 11% to £50,969 across Scotland.

A rise in house-building drove an overall marginal increase in construction activity in Scotland during the final quarter of 2017, according to new figures.

Daryl Harper Accounting and CFO recruitment specialist iMultiply has increased its headcount in Scotland in response to rising client demand.

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.