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Engel & Völkers reports best ever year as revenues soar past €1bn
International brokerage benefitted from heightened demand for luxury real estate in 2021
‘Green action not words’: RedBook pledges to pay for client’s projects to go carbon neutral
"We recognise the opportunity we have to be a ‘green influencer’," says Redbook Agency's CEO Tom Adams, as the firm commits to a major environmental initiative.
Chestertons launches Global Citizenship Division
There has been a notable increase in interest in "citizenship by investment" programs that rely on real estate acquisitions, says Chestertons, with a "huge rise" in applications for citizenship schemes…
Foxtons star moves on after 24 years
Stuart Bennett started out at the agency’s Notting Hill office in 1998
Carter Jonas recruits Bidwells’ Capel
Jason Capel is now Carter Jonas's Head of New Homes in the Eastern region.
New head of lettings for Knight Frank Southbank
The agency is looking to build its brand and market share across SE1
Watch: Former Foxtons & M&P boss Rollings shares his ‘agency story’
Peter Rollings, the former boss of London estate agencies Foxtons and Marsh & Parsons, talks through his career and shares some tips for success in this interview with agency trainer Christopher Watkin
Strutt & Parker names new country house head
Top West Country dealmaker Oliver Custance Baker has been promoted to run Strutt & Parker's National Country House Department.
British property developer opens permanent Hong Kong sales outpost
Galliard has been marketing its London property developments to Hong Kong buyers for 30 years.
Real estate lender Précis adds heavyweight legal chief
Précis Capital was set up last year Randeesh and Daljit Sandhu and Karen Dunstan, with backing from TowerBrook Capital Partners.
Foxtons shareholders rubber stamp Douglas & Gordon exit
99.8% of Foxtons shareholders have approved a decision to offload the loss-making Douglas & Gordon sales business and branches to CEO James Evans.
‘Banner year’ for US super-brokerage Douglas Elliman
Newly-public firm chalked up sales of $51.2bn in 2021, nearly double the totals recorded in the previous two years