Business
Joseph Homes signs up ex-Savills star Grace
Dominic Grace has joined the strategic board of the B Corp developer, having recently left Savills after 37 years.
Grosvenor adds Knight Frank’s Elliott to its Board
Alistair Elliott, Group Chair and Senior Partner at Knight Frank, is joining the Duke of Westminster's Grosvenor Britain & Ireland as a Non Exec Director.
New land sales platform adds heavyweight tech chief
Addland officially launched six months ago, and has already built up a headcount of 35.
Knight Frank posts record profit amid ‘extraordinary’ year
Group’s latest set of annual results show a 23% boost in pre-tax profit, but turnover slipping by 7%; UK resi division outperforms, with highlights including the sale of a £55m townhouse at Chelsea Ba…
Dunning rebrands Townends to Stirling Ackroyd; plots more acquisitions
Nick Dunning plans to continue building his property empire, making "at least four acquisitions a year".
Landsec to buy U+I in £190m deal
Acquisition will ‘accelerate’ the developer’s strategy of driving growth through mixed-use opps in London and regional cites.
Savills adds to French Riviera network
New opening in Beaulieu-sur-Mer takes the number of Savills branches in the region to seven.
LRG buys two more London estate agencies
Leaders Romans Group has completed six agency acquisitions so far this year, adding 28 new branch locations and 370 staff.
Allsop hires trio of former Savills directors to boosts resi valuations team
Major property auction house says it plans to "expand its growing residential and valuation team in response to a booming marketplace and a wealth of new business."
Property Vision recruits Knight Frank’s Clarkson to boost South West presence
Edward Clarkson spent nearly a dozen years at Knight Frank. He is now overseeing Property Vision’s expansion in the South West.
Foxtons’ figures boosted by market recovery & D&G deal
High-profile London agency reports 114% rise in sales revenue, with a commission pipeline up 20% on 2019 levels.
SME builders ‘on the verge of extinction’ as numbers plummet 80% since the late 80s
The number of small- and medium-sized house-building companies has fallen by an average of 335 a year since the late 1980s, according to some new research.