Business & People
Savills adds senior names in Notting Hill & Islington
Marsh & Parsons and Knight Frank alumni join the agency's prime London network.
American real estate behemoth takeover completes
Real completes $880mn acquisition of Re/Max, forming 180,000-agent global brokerage giant.
LRG to buy 200-year-old southern counties estate agency
Henry Adams, which traces its roots back to 1826, will share a parent company with Farrar, Stirling Ackroyd and Chancellors.
Property firms feel the squeeze as distress levels jump 9%
Nearly 89,000 UK property businesses are now in ‘significant’ financial distress, insolvency firm reports.
Christie’s International Real Estate joins luxury agency push into Phuket
Global brokerage network follows Bangkok launch with move into booming island market.
Former buying agent’s prime property network chalks up nearly £4bn of listings
Two-year-old platform doubles down on high-end market with nearly 500 agents signed up and over £3bn of live buyer searches.
Super-prime fit-out specialist eyes £100mn turnover amid resi push
130-year-old firm behind interiors at The Peninsula and The Londoner expands residential offering with three of London’s most anticipated luxury schemes in the works.
Nine in ten SME developers warn new levy will make projects ‘financially unviable’
Stark new findings suggest more than a third have already delayed, redesigned or cancelled projects, with 87% of smaller operators in London rethinking investment.
My Property Career: Quickfire Q&A with Marc Goldberg
Recruitment guru Barry Collins chats with prime resi industry leaders & entrepreneurs, distilling decades of experience & career highlights into 60 seconds.
Evergrande tycoon sentenced to life in prison
Hui Ka Yan, once Asia’s richest man, pleaded guilty to eight charges after the spectacular rise and fall of his property empire.
Forbes Global Properties adds Australian super-prime specialist to board
Private Property Global founder Tracey Atkins joins leadership of international luxury property network.
New ‘wealth intelligence platform’ aims to boost luxury firms’ HNW prospecting
Former Wealth-X MD Manuel Bianchi is leading the venture.