Business
Architects ‘pivot’ to residential to weather the pandemic downturn
RIBA's annual business benchmarking report tells of an "impressive" increase in residential design activity, while all other sectors have slumped.
Key hire for Strutt & Parker in Chelsea
Agne Karuzaite has moved from Savills in Knightsbridge to Strutts in West Chelsea.
Brace of senior figures leave Purplebricks
Online estate agency's lettings and marketing chiefs move on.
Boodle Hatfield adds to real estate team
Jonathan Hyndman has joined the 300-year-old law firm from Rosling King, where he led the banking and finance practice
Galliard CEO O’Sullivan departing to ‘seek new challenges’
Don O’Sullivan to step down as Chief Executive Officer of London’s biggest privately owned resi developer; top-table reshuffle sees Exec Chairman Stephen Conway resuming CEO role, as new Construction MD D…
Lloyds eyes massive buy-to-let expansion
Lloyds Banking Group's new buy-to-let division, Citra Living, could see its budget quadruple to £1 billion or more, according to "people familiar with the deliberations."
Off-plan property portal rolls into Britain
American-born Haüskey offers investors "cashback" on off-plan property purchases, and accepts cryptocurrencies.
Adam Architecture names two new directors
Darren Price and Robert Cox join the existing senior line-up of Nigel Anderson, Hugh Petter, George Saumarez Smith and Robbie Kerr at the renowned practice.
Chestertons’ former training chief moves to Fine & Country in Knightsbridge & South Ken
Sinéad Conlon is now a Lettings Director at franchised estate agency brand Fine & Country in Prime Central London.
Cheffins buys Cambridgeshire planning firm PlanSurv
“This is a strategic acquisition for Cheffins which will significantly boost our long-term growth ambitions," says boss Philip Woolner.
‘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".