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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

Lorraine Macphail Lorraine Macphail is head of property and construction, Scotland at Grant Thornton

Alasdair Gardner March saw a sharper deterioration in business conditions in Scotland’s private sector, according to the Bank of Scotland's latest survey.

Richard Pennycook Richard Pennycook, chief executive of the Co-operative, has requested that the group’s board members slash his pay by 60 per cent.

Image: Kwekwe A poor harvest in Madagascar, one of the world’s main suppliers of vanilla pods, has set the world on stand-by for a summer ice cream price hike.

A customer services adviser based at a Glasgow branch of the Bank of Scotland has admitted embezzling £39,000 from the accounts of two elderly customers. The crimes of Sean Adams, 30, only came to light when the daughter of one of his victims checked her mother’s statement when she was no longer

Alliance Trust’s strategy of buying back its own shares to improve investor returns has seen the Dundee-based global investment firm splash out almost £175 million in the last six months. Latest figures from the company revealed the cost of the concerted action embarked upon following a pledge to