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Lockton, the Glasgow-headquartered corporate insurance broker established to service the Scottish corporate risk market in 2014, has doubled its turnover in the year to April 2016. The firm now controls premiums in excess of £10m.

Demand for professional contractors in Scotland rose 21 per cent year-on-year to April 2016, according to research from the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo). The data, provided by recruitment software company, Innovantage, revealed that significant growth was experienced across

Nationwide building society, Britain's biggest customer-owned lender, has reported a 23 per cent rise in full-year pre-tax profits to £1.3bn, up from £1.04bn a year earlier. The mutual, which is the UK’s second biggest provider of home loans, also said underlying profit had increased 9 per cent

Mortgage arrears in Aberdeen are running at double the UK average rate and triple what they were in 2012, according to credit rating agency Moody’s. The firm said plummeting oil prices and contagion from rising unemployment in Aberdeenshire has spread to the housing market.

Scotland's digital retail parks and traditional High Streets suffered a slump in footfall last month with experts blaming poor weather, declining consumer purchasing power and uncertainty over Brexit as negative factors. Worryingly, the slump extended to digital sales. Diane Wehrle, Marketing and In

Debbie Mayor As the fifth session of the Scottish Parliament gets underway, Grant Thornton has called on all political parties to work together to address declining exports.

Average private rents in Scotland are rising faster than anywhere else in the UK, according to new figures. Figures from Homelet’s Rental Index show the average private rent in Scotland rose 11.4 per cent from the 12 months since April last year and the average cost is more than £700 a month.

Bob Cherry Property sales across Ayrshire have been driven forward by cash buyers making successful offers and quick sales, according to estate agents CKD Galbraith.

Lord Brodie A Scottish law firm which sued a former corporate client for payment of over £100,000 in unpaid legal fees has won its action after the company lost an appeal.

Latest figures from the Nationwide have shown UK house price growth slowed in this month, following the surge of buying last month to beat the rise in stamp duty. The UK’s second largest mortgage lender said the annual pace of house price growth slowed to 4.9 per cent in April, compared with 5.7 p

Scottish Friendly has more than doubled funds under management to hit more than £2.6bn. Latest figures released by the Glasgow-based firm show that funds rose from £1.1 billion in 2014 to more than £2.6bn in 2015, a rise of 147 per cent, on the back of the acquisition of Marine & General Mutu

As 40,000 interest-only mortgages are set to be called in during the course of this year, half of those affected are without plans to meet payments when current arrangements mature, according to new data. City watchdog, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) along with Experian said in 2013 that arou

Sarah Speirs Growth in private industrial and infrastructure construction slowed considerably during the first quarter of 2016, according the RICS Construction Market Survey, Q1 2016.

Alastair Rae Scotland’s hospitality sector was led by strong performances by Edinburgh and Inverness during the traditional slow opening to 2016, according to the latest report by accountants and business advisers, BDO.

Increased house prices and shortened selling times have resulted in an encouraging start to the year for the west of Scotland property market, according to the Glasgow Solicitors Property Centre (GSPC). The largest estate agency network in west central Scotland has published its quarterly report for