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Aileen McLeod The Scottish Government has said it is prepared to look into potentially reintroducing loans for building croft houses.

Rents have soared by more than a third in some parts of Scotland over the past five years, according to new figures. Official statistics show the average monthly rent for a two-bedroom property in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire rose by 36 per cent between 2010 and 2015.

Unemployment in Scotland increased by 11,000 in the three months to September, to stand at 166,000. The rise over the summer months contrasted with the UK as a whole which saw the number of unemployed fall by more than 100,0000 over the same period, to stand at 1.75 million.

The House of Commons has passed the Scotland Bill amid criticism from it has not delivered on the Smith Commission proposals.

Scottish factoring and letting services firm Newton Property has purchased Glasgow-based property management company, Greenhome Property Management, for an undisclosed sum in a “substantial deal”. The acquisition, which comes hot on the heels of Newton Property’s recent merger with Aberdeen-ba

Sir Gerry Grimstone Standard Life chairman Sir Gerry Grimstone has been appointed as a non-executive director and deputy chairman by Barclays.

Angus Tulloch Asia Pacific sector star manager Angus Tulloch and colleague Jonathan Asante have announced plans to step back from the bulk of fund management duties at Edinburgh-based Stewart Investors.

A finance director who took almost £8m from businesses owned by Scottish entrepreneur and TV personality Duncan Bannatyne has been jailed. Christopher Watson, who claimed he was exposed to a “culture of undoubtedly corrupt company management”, pleaded guilty to defrauding the Bannatyne Group of

Colin McLean, the co-founder of Edinburgh-based SVM Asset Management, has spoken out against the rewarding of failure within the industry. Reacting to the latest PwC survey of FTSE 100 Executive Pay, Mr McLean said the UK’s big companies and their shareholders have done little to address “length

Fiona Hyslop Scotland’s culture, Europe and external affairs secretary, Fiona Hyslop, has announced plans for a new Scottish innovation and investment hub to be opened in Dublin.

British retailing giants have warned stores could be forced to shed jobs in Scotland unless business rates are overhauled. Boots, Marks & Spencer and John Lewis are among more than 40 firms and business organisations that have called on the Scottish Government to reform non-domestic business rat

Simon Glazier of AAB Wealth (centre) receiving his Award from judge Andrew Megson (left) with Alistair McGowan (MC at the event) Aberdeen-based independent financial planning firm Anderson Anderson & Brown Wealth Ltd (AAB Wealth), has announced that Simon Glazier, a chartered financial planner o

The liquidator of a multi-million pound hedge fund who sued the company’s solicitors alleging that the firm “breached its fiduciary duties” to its client has had an action for payment of £7.3 million dismissed. A judge in the Court of Session ruled that while the pursuer had made a relevant c

Scotland’s most successful big investment fund in recent years The Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust has seen a 24 per cent fall in its earnings per share. Returns for the £3.4 billion trust managed by James Anderson and Tom Slater at Baillie Gifford as more companies are reducing the cash paid

The PwC corporate finance team has acted for Equistone Europe and management shareholders on the £125m disposal of East Kilbride-based firm, Worldmark to CCL Industries Inc. Worldmark is a leading supplier of high performance labels and overlays and related products to leading brand owners in the g