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A return of optimism amongst both buyers and sells in the Aberdeen property market has been reported by major estate agent, despite the political uncertainties and market pressures witnessed throughout 2016.

The town centre vacancy rate for Scotland was 9.0 per cent in January 2017, a short drop from the rate of 9.2 per cent in October 2016, according to latest figures from the Scottish Retail Consortium.

A Scottish potato merchant convicted of tax dodging has been jailed for two years and six months.

Around 70 business leaders gathered in Glasgow last week to explore the city’s digital future in light of its ongoing development as one of Scotland’s first Gigabit Cities.

Martin Gill UK manufacturing confidence has reached a 20-month high in defiance of the Brexit and Trump effect, according to the latest Business Trends Report by accountants and business advisers BDO LLP.

Ken Patullo Businesses in Scotland saw a very mixed final quarter of 2016, according to data released today by business rescue and recovery specialist Begbies Traynor, with some sectors seeing improvements whilst other industries were battered by the uncertainty in the economy.

Paul Pester Nearly 8000 TSB staff are set to share £28 million after a third year of growth at the challenger bank.

Jim Galbraith Scottish Friendly, Scotland’s largest financial mutual, has today announced it achieved record-breaking sales in 2016. The financial services group reported a substantial 33% rise from the £25.5 million it posted in 2015 to £33.9m in 2016. This increase was powered mainly by improv

The number of people accessing Scottish statutory debt solutions has remained steady in the third quarter of 2016-17, according to latest figures from the Accountant in Bankruptcy (AiB).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuneXaJIAmo As Trainspotting returns to the big screen this week, it seems that while Begbie’s temper may not have changed much since the cult film's debut in 1996, house prices in many of the film’s location postcodes have increased over 200 per cent, according t

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TyEbQwbB38 The recent slump in sterling should prompt a significant readjustment of the UK economy away from consumer spending towards exports, according to the EY ITEM Club winter forecast.

Edinburgh-based Lloyds Banking Group, which includes Bank of Scotland, has been named the most inclusive employer in Britain by lesbian, gay, bi and trans (LGBT) charity Stonewall in its Top 100 Employers list for 2017.

Alan McIntosh Scottish insolvency practitioners are being urged to make available to Scottish consumers a rarely used legal remedy which allows their home to be protected whilst providing repayment of their debts.

The number of house sales across Scotland faltered in December, although predictions for expected new sales over the next three months remained steady, according to the December edition of the RICS UK Residential Market Survey.

Average rents in Scotland’s private rented sector fell in the final quarter of 2016 by 0.9 per cent on the year to stand at £739 per month, according to new figures.