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The total value of retail sales in Scotland decreased by 0.3 per cent last month compared with July 2018, when they had increased by 1.1 per cent, new data from the Scottish Retail Consortium has shown. This is above the 3-month average decline of 1.9 per cent but below the 12-month average decline

Andrew Reynolds, Wealth Manager at French Duncan, makes the case for alternatives to cash holdings  

As EO Day - the national celebration of employee ownership - is marked today; social care support services provider, Aspire Housing and Personal Development Services Ltd., has announced it has become the latest employee-owned Scottish business. Members of the Aspire team at the organisatio

Over one in ten people across Britain own second homes, buy-to-let and overseas properties worth £941bn, according to new research published by the Resolution Foundation.

Death defying swimming pools are set to become the newest architectural trend in central London under newly unveiled concept designs.

In its 31st annual Financing Property presentation, hosted yesterday in Edinburgh, Savills says that social, demographic, political and technological disruption is causing fundamental shifts in UK property, posing challenges but also offering opportunities for the lending industry. Savills says

Between March and May 2019, the volume of property sales in east central Scotland increased by 14.3 per cent compared to last year. Within Edinburgh, the sales volume increased by 18.9 per cent year-on-year. This is a result of more properties coming to market in recent months which has helped to me

The Scottish Building Society, Scotland’s only independent building society and world’s oldest, has appointed Paul Denton, formerly of the Co-operative Bank and Royal Bank of Scotland, as its new chief executive at its annual meeting this week. Mr Denton will succeed Mark Thoms

The number of commercial rent disputes reaching a third party in Scotland has fallen to its lowest level for more than five years, according to analysis from Knight Frank. Figures obtained by the independent commercial property consultancy from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) sho

The number of store closures across Scotland’s high streets has fallen to its lowest level in the last six years, but the country’s most popular shopping areas are still seeing more than five stores per week close their doors. The performance in 2018 means there has been a net loss of mo

The cost of staying overnight in Glasgow grew by more than 3.5 times the national average last year, while Edinburgh remained largely static, according to PwC’s latest UK Hotels Forecast Update.

Economic growth in Scotland is expected to dip to 1.2 per cent in 2019, before accelerating to 1.6 per cent in 2020, according to PwC’s latest UK Economic Outlook report. The projections come as official figures show Scotland saw GDP growth of 0.3 per cent in real terms during the fo

The Scottish public are just as likely to invest their savings in art, antiques, jewellery or wine as they are in the stock market, according to new research from Barclays. The research, coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the ISA, reveals that only a quarter of Scots (25 per cent) hav

With just over two weeks until the UK leaves the EU, immigration law and recruitment experts have warned that Scottish businesses face a Brexit ‘skills time bomb’ as the supply of skilled labour from European countries is cut off. Jamie Kerr, a partner and specialist in immigration law a

Plans to increase the number of female entrepreneurs in Britain by fifty per cent have been set out, after independent research commissioned by the Treasury showed women still face too many barriers to setting up their own business. Alison Rose, deputy CEO of NatWest Holdings and CEO, Commercial &am