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New chair for BoE’s Residential Property Forum
Jackie Bennett OBE will take over the running of the industry-led group, which helps monitor the UK’s resi property sector
‘We haven’t even scratched the surface for Ghelamco in the UK’: Marie-Julie Gheysens on family business, sustainable development & ‘London’s playground’
INTERVIEW: Having already launched a major mixed-use development in Shoreditch and acquired a venerable prime London estate agency, the scion of European real estate giant Ghelamco has even more ambitious…
PCL stock shortage means ‘we are having to work twice as hard to deliver results’, says top buying agency
Eccord secured deals worth nearly £50mn in Q1 despite ‘exceptionally low’ prime property supply
Italy Sotheby’s International Realty opens in Verona
Agency launches presence in historic city after receiving ‘surge of requests’ from Germany, Switzerland, France, UK and the USA
Howden swoops on SPF Private Clients
High-end mortgage broker SPF was formed in 2011 after a management buyout and rebrand of Savills Private Finance
Angel O’Donnell hires new sales director
Ben Axton has joined Richard Angel and Ed O’Donnell’s four-year-old firm from Accouter Group
Winkworth profits more than double
“We made excellent progress in 2021, with a good performance in rentals and sales income exceeding all company records," says estate agency boss.
Is your agency open to large fines under GDPR?
Many firms are still not adhering to the rules around data protection, which could result in costly penalties in the event of a complaint, writes cyber security specialist Colin Tankard
Canary Wharf Group partners with The Eden Project to improve urban biodiversity
CWG's first project with Eden will be the creation of a "green spine" through the centre of the Canary Wharf estate.
Flying start for new boutique agency in SW London
Wandsworth-based Chelwood Partners has chalked up £50mn of sales since being set up by Gemma Harvey-Perry, Ben Bradshaw & Rupert Jermyn
Grosvenor ‘reconsiders its assumptions’ with a new urban property strategy
“The pandemic, external geopolitical turmoil, technological disruption, climate change and social change are forcing us to reconsider our assumptions of consumer needs and trends, business models and g…
Boomin has ‘commenced the move from a free to a paid-for platform’
A year after launching, the Bruce brothers' property portal has confirmed its first batch of paying estate agency members.