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UK Finance has reported that mortgage approvals for house purchases rose to a nine-month high in June, although they were still down modestly year-on-year and below long-term average levels.

Half (50.4 per cent) of the British workforce would be open to relocating within the UK for work, with London, Manchester and Edinburgh revealed the most desirable places to live in the UK.

Law firm Weightmans has further strengthened its Scottish offering with the appointment of three new partners, taking the number of arrivals to the UK firm’s Glasgow office in recent months to seven.

Damian Payiatakis The Millennial generation is four times more likely than older people to invest their money for positive social and environmental impact, according to new research from Barclays.

Swedish bank Svenska Handelsbanken AB (Handelsbanken) has agreed a multi-million loan to Thistle Property Group to acquire office buildings Forth House and Playfair House in central Edinburgh.

Tim Cooper The latest statistics from Accountant in Bankruptcy (AiB) for the first quarter of 2018-19 show total personal insolvencies, which include both bankruptcies and protected trust deeds (PTDs), rose by 11.8 per cent relative to the first quarter of 2017-18.

A Scottish Green Party MSP is proposing changes to the law to help local councils tackle Scotland’s housing crisis by controlling the growth in private homes being used as holiday accommodation.

Lloyds Banking Group now plans to run three separate subsidiaries in continental Europe after Brexit rather than just the singular one originally anticipated.

Maggie McGhee Women in finance and accounting take seven more years, on average, than their male counterparts to reach executive level, as they battle with a ‘two-tournament gender system’ throughout their careers, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) has found.

David Alexander, Managing Director of D J Alexander Estate agents are likely to be the next victims of the latest string of High Street closures as demand moves online, according to an Edinburgh-based property management firm.

American property tycoon Donald Trump's Trump Organisation has submitted £150 million plans to build 500 residential homes, 50 hotel cottages, sports centre, retail, equestrian and commercial spaces, alongside other resort related leisure facilities at his Menie estate golf resort north of Aberdee

Shona Campbell and David Smith of Henderson Loggie Accountancy firm Henderson Loggie has strengthened its restructuring team with the appointment of a new director in its Edinburgh office.

Michael Murray and Robert Winters Johnston Carmichael’s Capital Allowances team advised on £162m of commercial property projects last year, including the Radisson Red Hotel in Glasgow, as developers tune in to tax relief benefits earlier.

Edinburgh-based True Build Trade Services Limited (“True Build”), a leading building and joinery business, has doubled the size of its workforce in its head office following funding from Santander Business Banking.

Scottish-based investment management firm Brooks Macdonald is proud to support The Spartans Community Football Academy’s youth work programme, ‘Making Magic Memories’, which takes place over the summer holiday.