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Ranked: Average estate agency fees by area
Average estate agency commission fees across England & Wales's regions are estimated to range from c.£1,800 in the North East to c.£9,200 in London.
BNP Paribas recruits CBRE’s Nicholls to helm a new Central London Development Team
Nicholls' new team centralises BNP PRE's development offerings across use classes in Central London boroughs.
Quintessentially Estates rolls into Hawaii
New opening on tropical Maui marks the Belgravia-based brand’s fourth Stateside location.
Knight Frank launches Private Office in the Middle East
New Dubai-based arm of the agency's super-prime advisory service will be led by former head of London international project sales, Henry Faun.
Dexters takes over prominent Sloane Avenue site, opening another Chelsea branch
Dexters has moved into the Douglas & Gordon flagship on Sloane Avenue.
Former Aston Chase director launches new agency
Simon Deen Real Estate will be offering sales and acquisition services across PCL.
Savills’ latest remote auction raises £40m
The firm has sold £195m of property at auction so far this year - nearly a third more than during the same period in 2019.
Industry heavyweight Everett joins Offr as head of agency
Irish proptech platform signs up ex-Hamptons country sales boss after completing a £2.7m funding round and claiming ‘the world's first digital property transaction’.
New sales boss for Domus Nova
Giles Barrett, who recently left Knight Frank to join tech firm Rentify, will now be heading up sales for the west London-based boutique agency...
Heavyweight organisations sign industry-wide pledge to speed up the home-moving process
The Home Buying & Selling Industry group has created an informal pledge to improve transparency and help speed up the home-buying process, which has been signed-up to be the RICS, NAEA Propertymark, Rightmove, …
Meyer Bergman recruits new UK MD from China Vanke
Lily Lin is the new boss at the firm behind the super-prime transformation of Bayswater's Whiteleys shopping centre, Meyer Bergman, having been UK head of China’s largest residential developer.
Interview: Philip Harvey of Property Vision on the business of buying best-in-class
The senior partner at the helm of one of the UK’s most successful buying agencies discusses the impact of Covid on the firm’s trading cycle, key trends amongst HNW clients, and why buying agents are a b…