Business
Building supplies comparison website hopes to ‘spark price war’
            CompareTheBuild.com helps tradesfolk and DIY-ers find the tools and material for less.         
    ‘Confidence is growing’: Architects expect workloads to improve
            RIBA's Future Trends Workload Index has returned to positive territory for the first time since July 2022.         
    Chestertons picks up well-known PCL lettings business
            Estate agency takes over letting and management arm of boutique firm Henry & James as acquisition drive continues.         
    RIBA recognises estate agency founders for their ‘significant contribution to architecture’
            Matt Gibberd and Albert Hill, who founded design-led estate agencies The Modern House and Inigo, have been named as RIBA Honorary Fellows for 2023, alongside ten other leading lights of the built environment…        
    Lendinvest opens-up resi mortgage products
            Lloyds-backed tech-driven mortgage platform has formally entered into the UK’s £1.2 trillion homeowner mortgage market.         
    Middleton recruits ex-Savills COO to new advisory board
            Big-hitters Juliette Stacey and Christopher Eadie will be working with the prime property firm's senior team.         
    Foxtons chief: ‘We’re not seeing a crash in any way, shape or form’
            Buyer numbers have recovered after dropping off by up to 50% in the wake of the mini-Budget last year, says Guy Gittins.         
    European proptech firm buys Dataloft
            Property market intelligence company Dataloft has been acquired by Swiss-based proptech and data firm PriceHubble.         
    Surrey & London buying agency expands team
            Richard Winter has recruited Knight Frank and Savills alumni to his property search team.         
    Details of Douglas & Gordon administration & buy-out revealed
            CEO James Evans paid £515,000 to buy parts of the estate agency back, shortly after administrators were appointed and a year after taking control of the sales arm of the business from Foxtons for a 'nominal…        
    Interview: Luxury property impresario Dean Main on building a £600mn development pipeline & managing £12bn of PCL schemes
            Talking legacy developments & top-end trends with the boss of Henigman & Rhodium.         
    Boutique PCL agency Wilfords expands with new branch in SW London
            The Kensington-based firm was founded by ex-Foxtons agents Geoff Wilford and Simon Welfare in 2011.