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Iain McGhee By Iain McGhee, valuation and rating partner at Knight Frank LLP

Stirling is now the most affordable city in both Scotland and the whole of the UK. There has been a further deterioration in home affordability in Scottish cities, according to the latest Bank of Scotland Affordable Cities review.

Coll Murchison-MacDonald In just over 12 months it is expected that the first phase of HMRC’s Making Tax Digital (MTD) project will come on stream and Scottish acountancy firm Saffery Champness is warning rural businesses to be ready.

Tor Homes recently completed the transformation of Eastern Primary School in Dundee. FRP Advisory has been appointed as administrators at a developer that just months ago completed a major housing project in Dundee.

Ross McEwan Royal Bank of Scotland has today said that it made a £7bn annual loss last year, a tripling of the figure reported for 2015 and representing the ninth year of losses in a row for the still 73 per cent state-owned bank.

Insurer and asset manager Standard Life has today reported a 9 percent rise in operating profit for 2016.

Haymarket Yards (Image: Google) Tesco Bank’s move to consolidate its operations in Edinburgh at its South Gyle headquarters has seen almost 48,000 square feet of office space hit the capital’s market.

Jo Iwasaki Government needs to show stronger support for voluntary measures which improve corporate governance rather than impose a legislative mandate, according to the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA).

Although more than nine-in-ten Scottish and UK family businesses anticipate growth, more than a third are concerned about the potential impact of Brexit, according to the latest PwC Family Business Survey.

Alan Kelly MacRoberts took home the top prize last night at the Scottish Business Insider’s SME awards ceremony. The awards are given to companies in Insider's SME300 listing, with an additional honour for the number one firm from Insider'sSpring 100 rankings. After rising to third last year, MacR

Gross mortgage lending in the UK reached £18.9 billion in January, according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders.

David Melhuish Receipts from the Scottish Government’s Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (LBTT) may fall below government estimates at the end of the 2016/17 financial year, according to official statistics.

Glasgow-based engineering equipment giant Weir Group has reported a 21 per cent drop in pre-tax profits for last year.

Edinburgh-based life and pensions business Scottish Widows saw underlying profit fall by 13 per cent to £837 million last year as it was hit by the fallout of new pension reforms.