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Union Street, Aberdeen. Aberdeen’s hotel sector experienced its second successive monthly drop of over 40 per cent in year-on-year revenue in November, according to the latest report by accountants and business advisers BDO.

The Scottish Green Party has stepped up its calls for action on the cost of renting a home as a new poll revealed most Scots support a points-based system of rent controls. The Scottish Government agreed that its Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Bill would include the ability to introduce rent

A new employee benefit - enabling employees in the UK to take control of their finances, especially those who are experiencing difficulties managing their debt – is now available to one million people across the country. SalaryFinance offers UK businesses an employee benefit allowing staff to cons

Tech businesses are growing 32 per cent faster than the rest of the UK economy and the sector’s Edinburgh workers are among the highest paid in Britain, according to a new report.

Fewer than one in 1,000 mortgages ended in repossession in 2015, according to the latest update from the Council of Mortgage Lenders. And, with fewer than 1 in 100 mortgages in any sort of arrears, at 0.92 per cent the annual arrears rate is also at its lowest for more than a decade.

There has been a notable drop in the number of properties being brought to market, according to the latest ESPC House Price Report, which covers the three month period from November 2015 to January 2016. These latest figures reveal that the number of new homes brought to market between the months of

The number of judgments against Scottish businesses rose during 2015, ending the decreases of the four preceding years. The figures released today by Registry Trust show that the total value of judgments was at its highest since before 2010.

The market for rare whisky in 2015 significantly outperformed many other well established asset classes, including wine and gold, according to figures published today by whisky analyst, broker and investment experts Rare Whisky 101. In a record year for the rare whisky market, the leading index for

RSM's Stuart McCallum (right) and James Withers (Chief Exec of Scotland Food and Drink) announce RSM's membership. Audit, tax and consulting firm RSM has become the latest member of industry body Scotland Food & Drink.

RSM, which has offices in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Grangemouth and Lerwick, has announced a six per cent increase in global fee income, moving the brand up one place to become the sixth largest global network of independent audit, tax and consulting firms. Fee income for RSM’s international n

Nick Boles Ten Scottish employers who have failed to pay the national minimum wage have been "named and shamed".

An total of £160 billion has been collectively denied to savers as a result of historically low interest rates, according to latest estimates. Financial services firm Hargreaves Lansdown said the loss equates to £6,000 per household in the UK.

Statistics announced today by Scotland’s Chief Statistician in the latest Retail Sales Index for Scotland release, covering the period October to December 2015, show that the volume of retail sales in Scotland increased by 0.6 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2015 and grew by 2.2 per cent annuall

Plans to introduce an additional supplement on homeowners buying a second home or buy-to-let property will make it even harder for the most vulnerable tenants to get the accommodation they want at a price they can afford, the Scottish Association of Landlords (SAL) has said. Published by the Scottis

Sarah Speirs Scottish rural land prices fell in the latter half of 2015, according the latest survey by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and Royal Agricultural University (RAU).