Land Ownership

Finance

UK Government office deal sparks £6.5m payout to tax haven firm

Jamie Mann, Ally Tibbitt on July 9, 2020July 13, 2020

The property deal behind the construction of the new UK Government Edinburgh office hub generated a £6.5m dividend payout to a tax haven firm.

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Finance, Health

Scottish care homes owned by the Chinese state in tax havens

Joe Lo on July 7, 2020July 11, 2020

Dozens of Scotland's care home buildings are owned by companies based in tax havens and controlled by global hedge funds, private equity and China

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Finance

Charlotte Square to Quartermile: Scotland’s tax haven district

Jamie Mann, Ally Tibbitt on June 25, 2020June 29, 2020

Tax haven firms are buying up large swathes of the capital, with many of Edinburgh’s most iconic buildings now owned offshore, The Ferret can reveal.

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Finance

Revealed: Scottish property worth billions owned by tax haven firms

Joe Lo on June 21, 2020June 24, 2020

Registers of Scotland data shows 3,237 Scottish properties were owned by companies based outside of the UK in 2019.

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Housing and homelessness, Society

‘An awful way to welcome visitors’: Dumfries and Galloway’s derelict buildings

Jamie Mann, James McEnaney on April 21, 2020April 22, 2020

We investigate the derelict buildings that have blighted Dumfries and Galloway - and what's being done about them.

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Environment

The largest 10 vacant and derelict sites in Scotland

Jamie Mann on April 20, 2020April 21, 2020

Five of Scotland’s 10 largest pieces of vacant and derelict land are not being brought back into use despite being deemed suitable for regeneration or development, The Ferret has found.

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Housing and homelessness, Society

‘Left behind and ignored’ – Glasgow’s derelict buildings

James McEnaney on April 19, 2020April 20, 2020

We investigate why two derelict buildings in Glasgow - the former Talisman pub in Springburn and St Margaret’s in Polmadie - have been left to rot.

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Housing and homelessness, Environment, Society

Plan to buy out Buccleuch in Scotland’s highest village

Jamie Mann on April 17, 2020April 18, 2020

Residents of a Dumfriesshire village have published a detailed proposal for a community buyout of land owned by the Duke of Buccleuch.

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Human rights

Anger over Buccleuch ‘land grab’ in bowling green battle

Rob Edwards on March 27, 2017March 27, 2017

Britain's biggest landowner accused of "land grab" after he sold off a bowling green that the community thought belonged to them.

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Land Ownership

Finance

UK Government office deal sparks £6.5m payout to tax haven firm

Finance, Health

Scottish care homes owned by the Chinese state in tax havens

Finance

Charlotte Square to Quartermile: Scotland’s tax haven district

Finance

Revealed: Scottish property worth billions owned by tax haven firms

Housing and homelessness, Society

‘An awful way to welcome visitors’: Dumfries and Galloway’s derelict buildings

Environment

The largest 10 vacant and derelict sites in Scotland

Housing and homelessness, Society

‘Left behind and ignored’ – Glasgow’s derelict buildings

Housing and homelessness, Environment, Society

Plan to buy out Buccleuch in Scotland’s highest village

Human rights

Anger over Buccleuch ‘land grab’ in bowling green battle

Farmed salmon deaths from disease reach record high

Scottish Land Fund spent millions on publicly owned buildings

UK Government office deal sparks £6.5m payout to tax haven firm

UK government branded “disgraceful” after resuming arms sales to Saudi Arabia