Feb 23, 2018 | Best Practice, Blog
All businesses have paper and/or digital records of data relating to their customers and employees: names, addresses, emails and other personal information. On 25 May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becomes law. The GDPR sets new standards for data...
Feb 21, 2018 | Blog, Residential Property
There was a sharp rise in the number of first-time buyers entering the property market in 2017 despite having to put down a deposit that is more than double what was required ten years ago. The latest Halifax First-Time Buyer Review found that the number of first-...
Feb 19, 2018 | Blog, Estate Agency
Over the past few years there has been an explosion in online estate agents who charge a flat fee rather than commission. Certainly digital technology, smart phones, apps and the Internet have transformed the way people market their property or search for a new home. ...
Feb 13, 2018 | Blog, Debt Recovery
On the 24 January 2018 the Scottish Government body which deals with insolvency known as the Accountant in Bankruptcy (AiB) released its latest statistics. The figures show a decrease in the number of bankruptcy awards in the last quarter of 2017. Although the AiB...
Feb 7, 2018 | Blog, Residential Property
I have just been examining a big bundle of titles which were all dusty, making me sneeze, and some were barely legible. These titles relate to a property which has not yet been registered in the Land Register of Scotland but are titles recorded in Scotland’s General...
