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Rodger Group Limited, the parent company of M&J Builders Merchants (M&J) has acquired South Lanarkshire Building Supplies (SLB), with support funding from Royal Bank of Scotland.

Eric Curran, managing partner of DM Hall Chartered Surveyors, has assured that this housing market will return at some point, as it always does. Property professionals who have been in the front line for a long period of time tend to become slightly battle-hardened and take the view that, whatever c

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has revealed that regulated firms have received a total of 6.02 million complaints in the second half of 2019, marking an increase from 4.29m in the first half of the year.  The FCA said that the increase in complaints was mainly driven by a 75% increase in

Edinburgh start-up Drinkly has seen sales soar by over 850% in the last month as life under lockdown continues.

The UK retail sector suffered its worst March on records as sales plummetted amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to the latest British Retail Consortium (BRC) and KPMG Retail Sales Monitor.

High street fashion retailers Oasis and Warehouse have fallen into administration with Big Four audit firm Deloitte appointed as administrator. Some of the 1,800 staff employed across the Oasis and Warehouse shops, concessions and head office will be placed on furlough under the UK Government's job

Lloyds Banking Group has partnered with We Are Digital in a new initiative which has provided 2,000 digital tablets and vital support to 20,000 vulnerable customers facing difficulties during the coronavirus pandemic.

Stimulus cheques which are due to be sent out to US residents may be delayed after Donald Trump ordered that the US Treasury prints his name on them. The US Treasury Department ordered the Internal Revenue Service to mark the cheques with President Trump's signature on Monday evening.

Alistair Greig, the financial services chief behind a £13 million Ponzi scheme, has been jailed for 14 years. 

The Scottish Government has announced that it will make a further £220 million of grants available for businesses including those with multiple branches after business objections that Scotland did not match the English support scheme.   The new package of measures includes £120

Business activity across Scotland's private sector declined at the quickest rate since the survey began in January 1998 during March due to the coronavirus outbreak, according to the latest Royal Bank of Scotland PMI.

Kingdom Housing Association has appointed Ken Tudhope as its new director of finance. Currently director of finance at Weslo Housing, Mr Tudhope will take up his new role on July 1 and brings with him a wealth of experience in the sector which will prove invaluable in his work to secure funding for

Aberdeen-based accountancy firm Infinity Partnership has been shortlisted for a prestigious UK tax award. The business has been named a finalist in the Best Single Office Tax Practice category at the 2020 Tolley’s Taxation Awards.

ESPC has studied some of the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on the property market, looking at how the market and agents have adapted to the current circumstances and what the future may hold.

Gordon Deane, a partner with legal firm Balfour+Manson, discusses the Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) guidance on temporary consumer protection in the face of the current coronavirus crisis. The Financial Conduct Authority has implemented temporary measures to offer support to consumers imp