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Kenny Crawford The average price of a property in Scotland in May 2018 was £149,004 – an increase of 4.9 per cent on May in the previous year and an increase of 0.1 per cent when compared to the previous month.

Eileen Blackburn The recent controversy over the use of Company Voluntary Arrangements (CVAs) by several High Street retailers has angered landlords but government and property owners are missing the point, according to a leading Scottish insolvency practitioner.

Lending Works CFO Matt Powell (left) and CEO Nick Harding Glasgow-based investment house Maven has led the £2.8 million investment in UK peer-to-peer (P2P) lender Lending Works.

Christopher Woolard Competition is working well for most consumers using investment platforms, according to the interim findings of the Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) market study into investment platforms, published today.

Just under half (48 per cent) of Scots feel that they will never buy their own home, with less than a third (29 per cent) feeling confident about their future purchasing prospects.

Twenty-five Scottish businesses - including one top flight football club - have been “named and shamed” today by the UK Government for failing to pay employees the national living and minimum wage, along with more than 200 other UK employers.

Marc Wilkinson, Lynne Lamont, and Donald Brown Wealth manager Brewin Dolphin has moved to strengthen its presence in Edinburgh with a clutch of senior appointments.

The Silver Fin Building, Aberdeen Barclays has taken space in The Silver Fin Building on Aberdeen's Union Street in order to relocate from its former premises at the Granite City's Union Plaza.

Hisashi Kuboyama Emergency and hardship funding will be made available to households and businesses affected by the Glasgow School of Art fire after the Scottish Government increased its funding contribution.

A forum held in Edinburgh has hailed the launch of The Global Sustainability Investment Trust (GST) which has been created with the aim of delivering on the United Nations’ sustainable development goals.

As "The Cloud" continues to assert itself on the accounting landscape and looks certain to play a big part in the managing of business finances well into the future, rural sector experts at accountants Saffery Champness take a closer look at its applicability to businesses operating outside of the

Tim Cooper Just over half of all technology and IT companies in Scotland are at higher than average risk of insolvency in the next 12 months, according to new research from insolvency and restructuring trade body R3.

Allan Barr Employees of Scottish PR firm The BIG Partnership are to share in a £250,000 bonus pay-out after the agency reported its best-ever year.

Benny HIggins

Derek Blaik & Anita Eunson The introduction of the Scottish Rate of Income Tax (SRIT) created a great deal of noise when it first went ‘live’ in April of this year. Taxation – by its very nature – tends to attract heated debate and analysis and Scotland’s new system has followed that t