New lettings manager for PCL agency Nicolas Van Patrick
Boutique Knightsbridge-based firm recruits Strutt & Parker’s Alice Umfreville to help grow the rental side of the business
Kingsley Napley recruits a new Real Estate partner
Irwin Mitchell’s Ian Silverblatt has joined London law firm Kingsley Napley, as a partner in the Real Estate & Construction team
Digital auction platform goes upmarket with luxury listings
BidX1 announces its first ‘bespoke’ sale, featuring a £2m penthouse apartment at a Mount Anvil scheme in south London…
South coast estate agency expands with a £1m acquisition
Belvoir’s Brighton & Hove franchisees have snapped up 25-year-old lettings agency Homelets Brighton
TBS recruits JLL man to its London buying team
Knight Frank’s property finding arm The Buying Solution has hired James Burridge from JLL’s Knightsbridge team
RICS launches Social Impact Awards for property projects that deliver ‘a lasting positive impact on society’
RICS’ new Social Impact Awards programme will search for the UK’s best built projects transforming lives & communities
Government promises ‘a digital revolution’ for the property sector
Housing Minister Esther McVey wants to make Britain’s planning and property-buying scene more like online banking. The MHCLG has mooted a series of new proposals to encourage the burgeoning PropTech industry to make this happen, including opening-up planning and land data.
Kalmars takes on a new office on Old Kent Road; plots five branch expansion
Family-run south London estate agency is opening its second branch in Southwark, and is already looking at three further locations
‘Super summer’ for luxury housebuilder Octagon
Firm trumpets an ‘exceptional series of sales’ across London & Surrey, and growth for its design and build arm
Loop Software partners with ID verification app Yoti
Partnership aims to to speed-up Anti-Money Laundering Compliance for estate agents
Candy consortium eyes Capco takeover, but Capco moves towards Delancey for Earls Court sale
Nick Candy is leading a potential bid to buy Capital & Counties Plc, the FTSE 250 owner of Earls Court and Covent Garden. But Capco has entered into “a short period of exclusivity” with Delancey over a possible sale of the Earls Court estate
Knight Frank suffers amid high-end sales slump
Estate agency reports an 11% drop in pre-tax profits, blaming ‘still slowing or constrained residential volumes’ in the south east of England