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1 West Regent Street Clearbell, the private real estate fund manager, has today announced the sale of its 50 per cent interest in 1 West Regent Street, a Grade A building located in Glasgow city centre, to M&G Real Estate.

Registers of Scotland (RoS) will start to move land and property titles from the deeds-based General Register of Sasines onto the map-based land register from later this year. This will be done through a new power, Keeper-induced Registration (KIR) which allows the keeper of the Registers of Scotlan

Fergus Ewing The UK’s devolved governments have repeated pleas for the Treasury to cut VAT to boost the tourism industry.

Nicola Sturgeon People living in Scotland's four highest council tax bands are to pay more under new proposals put forward this morning by the Scottish government.

Atria One from Morrison Street Analysis by the Scottish Property Federation indicates that the value of Scotland’s commercial property transactions in 2015 rose to £3.5bn, up from £3.37bn in 2014.

Shares in Barclays have fallen 11 per cent on the back of a drop in full-year profits of 2 per cent. The bank announced a dividend cut and a restructuring that included its rolling back of its exposure in Africa as it revealed that underlying annual profits for 2015 fell to £5.4bn on income of £24

John Swinney Local authorities in Scotland are currently under a collective debt of almost £16 billion.

Ross McEwan Three of the top bosses at 73 per cent taxpayer-owned Royal Bank of Scotland, including chief executive Ross McEwan, have ploughed almost £1million into buying the bank’s bombed-out shares in the wake of last week’s eighth successive pre-tax loss.

Widespread misconceptions about apprentice pay, qualifications and other important benefits are putting many school leavers off pursuing this route to the workplace, according to new research from insurance firm, Prudential. Launched to coincide with the start of Scottish Apprenticeship Week 2016, t

The latest quarterly barometer that measures the outlook for growth and nationwide levels of business confidence has rallied after a 7.1 percent drop in Q3 2015. Q4 2015 of the Chartered Institute of Credit Management’s (CICM) UK Credit Managers Index (CMI) reported growth in both the Manufacturin

The Greater Manchester Loan Fund (GMLF), which is managed by Glasgow-based Maven Capital Partners, has invested £320,000 in Emeg Electrical Limited (Emeg), a specialist mechanical and electrical contractor providing services to the owners and operators of rail facilities. The GMLF was set up by the

Jeremy Peat A new report has called for a "step-change" in Scotland's credit industry if financial exclusion is to be tackled.

The Orkney Islands has the best quality of life of any rural area in Scotland for the third year running, according to the latest Bank of Scotland Rural Quality of Life Survey. Orkney knocked Aberdeenshire off top spot in 2014 and has remained there ever since.

Aberdeen Asset Management is cutting the fees on three of its funds, just as reports surface that the firm could be relegated from the FTSE 100 this month after seeing its market value more than halve since the shares peaked at 507p last April. They closed down 0.5p at 241.4p yesterday, valuing the

Greater help is to be offered to small and medium-sized businesses in Scotland, with plans to expand the Scottish Investment Bank (SIB). The move follows the Scottish Government’s Programme for Government commitment to create a Business Development Bank (BDB) to address the gaps in the market for