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Aberdeen Solicitors’ Property Centre Limited, in cooperation with the University of Aberdeen, Business School, Centre for Real Estate Research, has published statistics for the third quarter of 2017 on the Aberdeen housing market.

Ross McEwan After a £392m profit for the July-to-September period saw profits for the year hit £1.3bn, Royal Bank of Scotland has said it is "on track", despite still bracing for a monster fine from US authorities.

Lenders and investors are continuing to help fund registered social landlords (RSLs) as they work towards the Scottish Government’s target of an extra 35,000 social rented houses by 2021, according to the Scottish Housing Regulator.

Almost half of Scots aged 40 to 64 won’t be able to afford retirement when they reach state pension age, a new survey has revealed.

Scottish not-for-profit energy supplier Our Power has launched a Social Purpose Bond in the market via the Ethex platform.

Nucleus Chief operating officer Doug Heron, EY head of financial services Scotland, Sue Dawe, Nucleus chief finance officer Stuart Geard, Rising Star Award winner Victoria MacLean and SFE CE Graeme Jones. Nucleus Financial Group has been revealed as the winner of this year’s Scottish Financial Ser

Gail Hunter The commercial market remains buoyant in Scotland, with respondents expecting capital values to rise in each sector, according to the latest Commercial Market Survey from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).

Bosses at the so-called 'Bank of Mum and Dad' who have lent money to their children or grandchildren are owed, on average, £12,700, and more than one in 10 (11 per cent) of the Bank of Mum and Dad’s loans are for figures of more than £20,000, according to new research from Prudential.

After a tough four years new research shows that for the first time since 2014 the oil and gas industry expects more new jobs to be created than lost over the next 12 months.

2Semple Street The delivery of the only speculative office development in Edinburgh which is due to complete next year should help alleviate the Capital’s chronic shortage of Grade A office accommodation, its developers have claimed.

The difference between the tax due and that collected by HMRC – known as the ‘tax gap’ – fell to a record low of 6 per cent in 2015 to 2016, official statistics have revealed today.

From left: Graham Waddell, James Wilson and Russell Crichton Glasgow-based investment firm Speirs & Jeffrey has announced the appointment of James Wilson as deputy chief executive and as a director of the business.

David Melhuish Latest official figures released by Revenue Scotland reveal a fall in revenue of Land and Building Transaction Tax (LBTT) for the first time since May, the Scottish Property Federation has found.

Austin Lafferty The average selling price of two bedroom flats in Glasgow’s East End have increased by 19.4 per cent over the last three months, indicating that the area may be the latest first time buyer hot spot, according to GSPC’s latest quarterly report.

Jeremy Woolf The European Union (Withdrawal) Bill fails to meet the Government’s objective that the same rules and laws will apply on the day after leaving the EU as on the day before, the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) has said. The Institute believes that this will lead to damaging uncer