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Aberdeen’s Energy Transition Zone (ETZ) accounted for 35% of the city’s take-up from industrial occupiers last year, rejuvenating the city’s southside and helping to deliver the third best year of the last decade.

Scotland's high-end property market has demonstrated resilience in 2024, with sales of homes exceeding £1 million increasing despite political and tax hurdles, according to Savills. The market recorded a total of 466 residential transactions, up from 454 in 2023. This growth is driven by stron

Nearly a quarter of a million Danes have backed a call for Denmark to purchase California from the US. The joke online petition is a response to Donald Trump's repeated – and rebuffed – demands to purchase Greenland from Denmark.

Lloyds Banking Group has put thousands of IT jobs under review as it seeks to modernise its digital banking services and compete with fintech rivals. The bank informed around 6,000 tech and engineering staff that their roles are at risk of redundancy, but will increase by 1,200, City AM reports.

VAT & Indirect Tax Advisors (VITA) has announced the arrival of associate director Tony Cochrane to bolster its VAT advisory offering. This takes the VITA team to seven, cementing its position of being the largest independent firm of VAT & Indirect Tax advisors in Scotland.

The North Sea’s transient workforce could be lost for good unless pace is picked up on the renewable energy transition, an accounting and business advisory specialist has warned. Mark Brown, partner at MHA, believes 2025 is pivotal in terms of seeing real momentum gained.

A new report from the University of Edinburgh has highlighted the significant economic potential of tidal stream and wave energy for Scotland. Commissioned by Scottish Enterprise and Wave Energy Scotland, The Future Economic Potential of Tidal Stream and Wave Energy in Scotland report suggests that

The National Audit Office (NAO) has warned that the UK's increasingly complex tax system is adding hundreds of millions of pounds to administration costs for both the government and businesses.

The first images of a planned transformation of a historic Victorian Collectors Hall in Glasgow city centre into an event space as part of the ongoing £100 million Love Loan development have now been revealed.

Aberdeen City Council is set to discuss a proposed 7% tourist tax this week, the highest suggested rate in Scotland.

Dundee employment lawyer Ryan Russell has been appointed senior managing partner at MML Law. Mr Russell, 41, has built up a reputation nationally acting in many high-profile employment cases in recent years while progressing through the ranks of MML Law, which he joined as a trainee.

Savills, on behalf of Old Park Lane Management (OPLM), has sold a Glasgow building, comprising 98 Buchanan Street and 31 Royal Exchange Square, to Cervidae for £13.775 million. Having completed the asset management plan, OPLM is focusing on its core strategy of large-scale central London devel

Wbg has cautioned directors against the repercussions of failing to deal with failing companies in the proper manner and illegal 'phoenixing'. The caution follows reports that a Scottish company director used a ‘corporate rescue’ process to shut down his winter sports ­business and d

Independent travel agent Barrhead Travel has celebrated its best-ever month in its 50-year history, reporting record holiday bookings in January 2025. The surge in demand continued into February, with the company noting a 58% increase in bookings on the first Saturday of the month.

More than four-fifths (83%) of young people in Scotland have said there is not enough information given to them about apprenticeships when considering their career options, a new survey by BDO has found. Of this group, 59% say more work needs to be done to connect young people with local businesses