Business
‘Over the next five years our target is to sell £1 billion of property’: Meet the boutique agency founder behind some of this year’s standout deals
Merchants Row founder Waleed Mohammed has put together a string of notable prime resi deals in 2021, including the acquisition of seven West End penthouses, a rare project on Grosvenor Square, and a bulk-buy …
Property recruitment firm brings in former Get Living chief to advise on growth
Neil Young is working with Collins Property Recruitment to "help the team stride confidently into new markets and new territories".
RICS picks Lord Bichard to lead major independent review
The former Director of the Institute of Government is to lead a wide-ranging review into the very fabric and purpose of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
Class action case against online estate agencies moves forward with ‘hundreds’ of claimants
Contractors 4 Justice says it has been "inundated with interest from hundreds upon hundreds of Purplebricks agents in particular". Purplebricks insists "there is no legal basis for this potential action"
Savills pumps more investment into Yopa
Hybrid agency announces ‘significant’ additional funding from Grosvenor Hill Ventures & DMG Ventures as revenues rise but losses continue…
Reubens reportedly ‘on the verge’ of £180m Admiralty Arch deal
Sky News suggests that the Reubens family is about to become "a significant shareholder" in the ultra-luxury development of Admiralty Arch.
Stirling Ackroyd Group picks up another London estate agency
Beresford's three sales and lettings branches in South East London are to be integrated into Nick Dunning's fast-growing and recently-consolidated Stirling Ackroyd network.
Shard developer Sellar recruits investment heavyweights
Savills IM's Kiran Patel and Schroders' Duncan Owen have joined Sellar Property as Non Exec Directors.
Rollings returns to Foxtons
Peter Rollings has returned to Foxtons, becoming a Non-Executive Director on the the Board of the company he used to run.
Knight Frank announces major expansion in Dubai
Andrew Cummings has been brought in to help the agency ‘become the market leader in the region’s prime and super-prime residential sector’.
Dexters builds network with two more agency deals
High-profile London estate agency has picked up two sales/lettings firms in South East London, continuing a spate of agency consolidation and acquisition activity in the capital.
Start-up J3 aims to ‘shake up the insurance and property finance sectors’
Former London Belgravia team has launched J3 Advisory to make it "quicker and more effective for property developers to get both the insurance and finance that they need."