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Annual house price growth has risen to its highest level in nearly seven years, with growth reaching 10.9% in May, according to the latest Nationwide House Price Index.

Annual house price growth rebounded to 7.1% in April, from 5.7% in March, according to Nationwide's latest House Price Index.

Companies and other organisations are taking a mixed approach to salary sacrifice during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a poll from The Chartered Governance Institute (ICSA) and The Core Partnership.

Scottish accountancy and business advisory firm Johnston Carmichael has promoted five new directors. Suzanne Adshead, Lesley Clark, Jamie Davidson and Grant Roger, who are based in the Edinburgh office, and Stuart Walker, a member of the Johnston Carmichael Wealth team and located in Aberdeen, have

Scottish Widows is among six life insurance firms now being investigated by the Financial Conduct Authority after it raised concerns that some long-standing customers may not have been told when charges were applied. Edinburgh-based Widows is included in the group named by the City watchdog along wi

Iain McMillan A new commission looking into taxation in Scotland has launched its call for evidence.

UK house prices slipped for the first time since March with annual house price growth falling back to 10.5%, according to the latest Nationwide House Price Index.

Sue Dawe EY’s Scotland practice has marked the start of their financial year with three partner promotions and a new Head of Financial Services.

Derek Mackay Finance Secretary Derek Mackay has told MSPs that he will implement the vast majority of recommendations made by the Barclay Review, with new properties not paying Business Rates until they are occupied and their tenants exempt for the first 12 months thereafter.

This year will mark the year businesses started taking seriously the notion of ‘working from home’ as standard practice within Scottish firms, says audit, tax and consulting firm RSM.

Scottish member companies of the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) say the current practice of withholding cash retentions is hugely damaging for many Scottish construction SMEs and is leading to widespread insolvencies.

Anti-pickpocket activists in Venice have found themselves reported to the police for stalking and unauthorised filming of alleged pickpockets. A crime wave in the tourist hotspot has prompted calls for a crackdown by police – as well as the appearance of activist groups who follow and film sus

The Land Reform (Scotland) Bill will inflict "an era of wanton damage" on rural Scotland unless the Scottish government accepts that key changes should be made to it, according to Scottish Land & Estates (SLE). The rural business organisation said today that the bill as it stands is unworka

Rents adjusted for inflation have fallen in the majority of Scottish towns and cities since the onset of the credit crunch in 2008, according to new figures from lettings portal Citylets. Of all towns analysed, only the Fife town of Kirkcaldy saw rents for 1 and 2 beds almost keep up with inflation,

The UK government has announced what it describes as "the strongest, most robust changes to payment laws in over a generation", with measures it says will be the toughest of any G7 nation. At the centre of the reforms is a substantial expansion of the Small Business Commissioner's powers, including