Business
Zoopla-backer Octopus pumps £5m into Homesearch
Giles Ellwood's proptech start-up has secured major investment to fuel "ambitious growth".
Urban renewal design practice Leslie Jones adds senior talent
Lydia Firminger has joined Leslie Jones Architecture to work on major city centre regeneration masterplans.
JLL shuffles leadership team
Consultancy has made changes to its client-facing and regional commercial real estate teams.
Knight Frank adds to London resi valuations team
Lucy Partington has joined the agency after ten years at Cluttons
Updated Covid guidance for home-movers & the property industry
The Government has updated official pandemic guidance for the property industry and those moving home in England, tweaking the advice to reflect changes to self isolation periods.
Record number of buy-to-let companies set up in 2021
Hamptons estimates that around half of all new landlord purchases last year used a company to hold their buy-to-let property.
Controversial luxury agency to star in new property show
Property Porn Stars will focus on the fortunes of Tyron Ash's US-style operation, which has been causing some waves in the capital's high-end sector of late...
Foxtons offloads D&G sales business and branches after less than a year
Douglas & Gordon's CEO, James Evans, will now run D&G as an independent brand.
Winkworth duo pick up Fulham franchise
Faith Cook and Georgia Everton-Wallach have bought Winkworth's franchise business in Fulham and Parsons Green.
FCS & Rightmove team up to tackle money laundering
The first of 2021's free webinars will cover the role of the money laundering reporting officer
Former Knight Frank partner to lead Strutt & Parker’s London new homes sales team
Keir Waddell was one of the youngest partners at Knight Frank, and has worked on some of London’s biggest regen schemes
Charlie Willis on the rise of the prime property broker
American-style property brokers "are lapping up the choice it gives them" on this side of the pond in today's prime resi market, writes Charlie Willis of The London Broker (formerly head of Strutt & Parker's…