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The Tayside property market has picked up with a strong final quarter following reduced confidence in the wake of the Brexit vote. The Tayside Solicitors Property Centre (TSPC) in Dundee reported annual sales amounting to £397 million – with the average property price for last year dropping 0.6 p

Angela Haig By Angela Haig, a partner in EQ Accountants' Forfar office

Tom MacLennan FRP, the administrators of collapsed Glasgow rock music media business Team Rock have sold a raft of its assets in an £800,000 transaction.

Sultan Choudhury Just one month after establishing its presence as the only wholly Sharia compliant retail bank in Scotland, Al Rayan Bank today announced the launch of Sharia compliant Buy to Let Purchase Plans (BTLPPs) for the Scottish market.

An HSBC employee from Aberdeen is facing jail after admitting to hatching a plot to defraud nearly £300,000 from the accounts of some of the banking giant’s most wealthy customers.

LINK, whose network connects nearly all of Britain’s ATMs, has revealed that Friday 23 December 2016 was an all-time record day for cash machine withdrawals.

Neil Finnie Buccleuch Property has added to its development capability with the appointment of new Associate Director, Neil Finnie, whose role will be to focus on new business development and key strategic projects across the UK.

December saw the steepest decrease in the number of people placed in permanent jobs by Scottish recruitment consultancies for seven-and-a-half years, according to the latest Markit Report on Jobs.

Graeme Allan Graeme Allan, managing partner at Aberdeen-headquartered accountancy practice Anderson Anderson Brown has spoken of the firm's ambitious plans to grow and expand throughout Scotland following one of its busiest ever years.

Dundee-based Alliance Trust Savings has appointed Allison Fower as a new COO and head of intermediary sales.

Jenny Laing Senior figures representing Aberdeen City Council are to open the London Stock Exchange tomorrow to mark the Granite City’s pioneering bond issue.

One of the UK’s newest commercial property debt providers has completed its first Scottish deals seven months after launching in the real estate finance market.

Scotland is one of the leading parts of the UK in terms of small business skills, despite a rising challenge amongst some small businesses around cyber security, according to findings from the third annual Bank of Scotland Business Digital Index.

Martin Gill UK business confidence is rising fast on the back of an upbeat outlook for the UK economy, according to the latest Business Trends Report by accountants and business advisers BDO.

Carole Connor Alexander Sloan, the Scottish accountants and business adviser which celebrates its 150th anniversary this year, has appointed Carole Connor as a new tax partner.