Business & People
OB Private scales up with senior hires & new brokerage arm
Six new recruits arrive - including an established team from Chestertons - as PCL agency rolls out broker platform alongside employed structure.
Former Perkins&Will London chief launches AI rental platform
Ex-architecture MD bets on proprietary LLM and geospatial engine to disrupt postcode-led property search.
Rightmove rolls out AI-powered ‘conversational’ property search
Portal says its new interface 'will genuinely add value for people moving home and for our partners.'
House Collective adds Hamptons veteran as London expansion gathers pace
Alister Shaw and Paul Davis bolster boutique firm’s West and North London teams.
Savills appoints new lettings heads in Surrey
Agency strengthens Cobham and Guildford teams as regulation reshapes the rental landscape.
My Property Career: Quickfire Q&A with Nicholas Cowell
Recruitment guru Barry Collins chats with prime resi industry leaders & entrepreneurs, distilling decades of experience & career highlights into 60 seconds.
Ex-Savills director joins Moveli
Upper-market brokerage continues to scale its national agent network.
Chestertons Global expands in Malaysia
Rahim & Co has joined the international estate agency network.
Savills names new Mayfair sales head
Nick Verdi takes the reins of agency’s high-profile operation based on North Audley Street.
Savills boosts Spanish resi sales team
Agency says four new hires demonstrate 'commitment to building out further the Savills global residential business, not only in Spain but across the wider EMEA region.'
Veteran NW London agent joins expanding brokerage
Jignesh Mepani has moved to Harding Green after 18 years at independent firm Camerons Stiff & Co.
RICS revamps CPD as AI and regulation reshape surveying
New 'flexible, outcomes-based' framework designed to reflect skills that didn’t exist when many qualified.