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Annual house price growth in the UK picked up to 5.0% in September, marking the highest rate in four years, according to Nationwide's latest house price index.

The amount of UK property sales that are made by first time buyers is set to fall for the first time in five years as banks across the country remove low-deposit mortgages from the market in response to the COVID-19 crisis.

Scottish kilt maker Slanj has celebrated the opening of its new headquarters in Glasgow this weekend, thanks to £243,000 in funding from Royal Bank of Scotland. The family firm, run by brothers Brian and Craig Halley, has been providing tartan to its clients for 25 years. In 2004 the company b

The UK government's Eat Out to Help Out scheme contributed to a "sharp fall in prices", experts have said after it was revealed inflation fell to a five-year low last month. Consumer price inflation across the UK fell from one per cent in July to just 0.2 per cent in August, the Office for National

The AccelerateHER programme, run by Scottish-based Investing Women, has teamed up with Barclays Ventures to offer specialist mentoring to some of the nation’s most promising female-led companies. Angel investors from Scotland’s only all-female angel group, Investing Women Angels, will de

The number of first-time buyers in Scotland is at a seven-year low, falling over a third (35%) since last year, according to the latest data from Bank of Scotland. 

Aberdeenshire-based independent customs consultancy, Bethan Customs Consultancy, is celebrating its 5th birthday this month with a 69% rise in turnover, a new appointment to their growing team and an expanding client base. Despite the challenging commercial landscape over the last five months,

HMRC is to contact 3,000 companies across the UK every week over concerns that they have over-claimed for employees furloughed through the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS). Since the scheme launched in April, over 1.2 million employers have applied to the scheme, protecting around 9.6 mi

UK Government debt has reached over £2 trillion for the first time.

Just one-easy access savings account in the UK now beats the inflation rate marking another blow for families amid the current economic recession.

The Supreme Court has partially allowed the appeal in a case in which it was disputed whether the ultimate transfer of a pension fund to a personal pension plan attracted inheritance tax. It held, by a majority, that the omission to draw any benefits gave rise to a charge to inheritance tax, but the

Matt Henderson, restructuring partner at Johnston Carmichael, reflects on the speculation of imminent corporate failures in the UK stemming from the coronavirus pandemic.  There’s been a lot of concern expressed that an imminent rise in corporate failures is on the cards as soon as s

A new survey by the Scottish Chambers of Commerce has found that further direct financial support is needed to help firms deal with potential local lockdowns as over half of firms (56%) have reported lower levels of cashflow compared to one month ago. A total of 56% of the firms surveyed h

The Scottish housing market saw a rebound in interest and activity during July but surveyors remain cautious about the months ahead due to the uncertain economic outlook. 

Corporate insolvencies may increase this winter, with new research from the insolvency and restructuring trade body R3 indicating that a steep rise may start as early as this October. The R3 research – based on a member survey of insolvency and restructuring professionals – highligh