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UK house prices fell 0.3% month-on-month in January after having been flat in December, according to the latest Halifax house price index.

The board of housebuilder Barratt has decided to resume dividend payments to shareholders after the company experienced record sales over the past six months.

The Bank of England (BoE) has held off from more stimulus for the UK economy, keeping the interest rate at 0.1%. At the February Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting yesterday, the BoE observed that the UK economy had performed much better than had been expected in Q4 2020 when it likely grew aro

Year on year Scottish shopper footfall decreased by 72.5% in January, a 22.3 percentage point further decline from December, according to the latest Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) Shoppertrak data.

January data highlighted an improvement in hiring activity across Scotland, according to the latest Royal Bank of Scotland Report on Jobs.

Ahead of the 2021 Scottish Parliament election, CBI Scotland is calling on all parties to put the economy front and centre of the debate as we look to build back better from the pandemic and chart a successful path for Scotland’s economic future. Launching its Holyrood 2021 manifesto, CBI Scot

The Scottish Government has announced a £33 billion investment in Scotland's healthcare, education, transport and the environment over the next five years. The Infrastructure Investment Plan (IIP) and Capital Spending Review, both published yesterday, confirm a five year plan of investment tha

A woman has been caught trying to smuggle 947 cacti and succulents into New Zealand by strapping them to her body.

Perth-headquartered Bidwells property consultancy has posted a record turnover of £5.46 million throughout 2020 despite the upheaval of COVID-19. The firm's sales increased by 3% from 2019.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has written to Bank of Scotland owner Lloyds Banking Group over its breaches of the Payment Protection Insurance (PPI) Market Investigation Order 2011 which the CMA were notified about in September last year. The notification came seven years after the ban

Nearly a third (32%) of people in Scotland say they are financially worse off than they were before the UK first went into lockdown in March, according to new research by Shawbrook Bank.

The average property selling price in Edinburgh, the Lothians, Fife and the Borders over the past three months was £265,953, up 7.4% compared to the same period last year, according to the latest figures from ESPC. 

The UK new car market fell 39.5% in January with 59,030 fewer registrations compared to the same month last year, according to figures published today by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).

The latest provisional statistics from the UK House Price Index (HPI) show that the average price of a property in Scotland in November 2020 was £165,703, an increase of 8.6% on November 2019. Comparing with the previous month, house prices in Scotland increased by 0.9% between October 2020 an

A sod-cutting ceremony was held yesterday to mark the beginning of construction work on Cupar’s new £7.5 million retail park.