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Scottish siblings are happy to share, and the Bank of Brother and Sister may be just as generous as the Bank of Mum and Dad, new research has found.

The average price of a property in Scotland in January 2018 was £148,512 – an increase of 7.3 per cent on January in the previous year and an increase of 1.4 per cent when compared to the previous month.

Calum Macdonald The first school leaver appointed by accountancy and business advisory firm Johnston Carmichael has graduated as a chartered accountant.

Business advisers and accountants, Scott-Moncrieff, have helped Social Bite to take the next step in their digital inclusion project by helping them to fund new IT hardware for their Social Bite shops.

9 George Square Serviced office provider Orega is set to launch its first business centre in the central belt after closing a significant deal at Grade A Glasgow office development 9 George Square.

Maggie McGhee The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) has today issued a new warning to professional accountants over the importance of maintaining an up-to-date understanding of developments in the fast-moving space of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.

Eileen Tocher, relationship director at Royal Bank of Scotland and Gayle Graham, managing director of Box Pool Solutions at the construction site Peterhead-based fish container provider, Box Pool Solutions, has secured a £1.2 million funding package from Royal Bank of Scotland to construct a new pu

Kerrigan Procter Insurance giant Legal & General has announced that its Legal & General Capital division has acquired the 52.1 per cent of Scottish housebuilder Cala Homes which it did not previously own.

Independent credit ratings provider Standard & Poors (S&P) has awarded housing association Link Group Ltd with an investment grade rating of A+. Link has responded to the Scottish Government’s target to deliver 50,000 affordable homes for rent by 2021 with an ambitious development programm

Stephen Robertson IP-rich companies have until 23 March 2018 to join the IP100 and be featured in the initial 2018 rankings and all-important IP100 magazine.

Robert Outram On International Women's Day, Robert Outram of Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS) asks how can social background or gender still be among the factors determining a CA’s salary?

David Melhuish The Scottish real estate industry contributes almost £4.8 billion to the Scottish economy and supports more than 92,000 jobs, according to a new report.

The number of pregnant women may be a better indicator of a looming economic recession than analysis produced by leading experts or various types of consumer data, it has emerged.

Ric Traynor Begbies Traynor Group has acquired mid-market corporate finance practice, Springboard Corporate Finance Limited.

More funding should be provided to help Scottish firms take on apprentices older than 25 - like parents returning to work or people looking to switch career - according to the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).