Business
Ex-Strutts client services head joins property management firm
Rory Field will be spearheading expansion plans for West End-based Masterfix.
Hutton Bubear bolsters team with hires from JLL & Savills
The advisory firm has reported heightened demand for both acquisition & development consultancy services this year.
Purplebricks faces legal challenge over employment status
More than 100 Purplebricks workers claim that they were wrongly classed as self-employed by the hybrid estate agency, so missed out on holiday pay and pension contributions
Prime London estate agency Bective relaunches under new management
Bective - formerly Bective Leslie Marsh - has relaunched its six branches under the management of Dexters alumni Thomas Dainty and Craig Tonkin, and ownership of European real estate giant Ghelamco.
Beauchamp builds New Homes team
Sarah Heracleous has joined Paul Finch's New Homes team at super-prime estate agency Beauchamp Estates.
Barton Willmore promotes five to Partner level
The planning and design consultancy has created five new Partners and four new Directors.
‘The property market resembles a half-drunk cappuccino – still hot but the froth has gone’ – Garrington
National buying agency Garrington has updated its look, flexing a new logo (below) and new corporate colours in its latest market update
Knight Frank beats Mercedes Benz, O2 & HSBC to win top CX award
The agency’s resi business was praised for its approach to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Knight Frank star Dawes launches boutique agency
Harry Dawes has been running Knight Frank’s flagship resi office on Sloane Avenue for the last four years, and brokered some of London’s largest property deals.
Tenn Capital bags £300m funding facility for ‘aggressive scaling’
Guernsey-based short-term property lender Tenn Capital was set up in May by CEO Matt Watson, with Enness's Islay Robinson and Hugh Wade-Jones on board as Non-Exec Directors.
Busy architects face ‘growing external challenges’
"A lack of European candidates is exacerbating the recruitment challenge," says the Royal Institute of British Architects, as the private housing design sector remains busy.
OTM partners with Knight’s Property Academy
Fee-paying OnTheMarket customers can now get free access to Property Academy coaching sessions, covering topics of interest to estate agency owners and senior management.