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Alison Sellar, CEO of Aberdeen-based activpayroll, this week received her OBE from the queen for her services to business in Scotland and abroad at an Investiture held at the Palace of Holyroodhouse.

Hundreds of confidential tax forms have been sent to the wrong employees by Aberdeen City Council following a major data breach.

John Pickard Edinburgh-based wealth manager Martin Currie has today announced the departure of head of investment John Pickard and the institution of a new model of investment team leadership focused on what the firm says is the next stage of delivering the active equity specialist’s growth ambiti

More than 1,100 new homes are to be built in Manchester and Glasgow after Maslow Capital completed a record-breaking £100 million of new facilities across four deals in June.

Aberdeen's office market has continued its steady start to 2018 into the second quarter with a further 89,776 sq ft of office space transactions, almost mirroring take-up in the first quarter (88,774 sq ft) and bringing the total take-up for the first half of the year to 178,550 sq ft.

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.

House prices will grow faster in Scotland than anywhere else in the UK this year, according to new research by PwC, which predicts the average Scottish home will cost 20 per cent more in 2022 than in 2017.

Alasdair Ronald The vast majority of economists agree that trade is good. Free trade, they say, is even better. Little wonder then that it’s with some amount of trepidation that they have watched the developments of the past few months, writes Alasdair Ronald, Senior Investment Manager, Brewin Dol

An online mapping solution is being used to help land and property owners register their titles under a government initiative to transform land registration in Scotland.

Simon Rubinsohn Scottish housing market activity continues to grow in contrast to a slowdown in the rest of the UK, according to a new report.

Graeme Jones Wealth managers Charles Stanley have joined Scottish Financial Enterprise as the company grows their presence in Scotland.

New research from Barclays Mortgages has revealed that 56 per cent of Scottish first time buyers believe buying a house together shows greater commitment to your partner than marriage.

The number of households in Scotland is projected to increase dramatically over the next 25 years with single person households set to become the most common type of home by 2041.

Brexit is expected to create 3,500 finance and banking jobs in Paris as the sector’s leading players move their operations out of London, an industry group has said.

John Joyce and Malcolm McPherson International legal firm, Addleshaw Goddard, which has three offices in Scotland, has posted record global revenues of £242 million for 2017/2018, representing a growth of 23 per cent compared to the previous year.