Business
Foxtons buys Douglas & Gordon for £14.25m
D&G will continue to operate as a separate brand to Foxtons, with the existing management team remaining in place.
Property Vision expands country team
Buying agency Property Vision has recruited Strutt & Parker and UK SIR alumnus Marcus Gondolo-Gordon to cover the Kent and Sussex patch.
Rose & Partners expands into lettings with senior hire
Former Hamptons and Strutt & Parker lettings chief Zoë Rose has joined her husband's boutique property agency.
Buying agency ramps up managed sales division with senior appointment
Mayfair-based buying agency Black Brick has recruited Hamish Bruce from Marsh & Parsons to lead its Managed Sales division.
Dexters buys SE London estate agency Roy Brooks
Dexters has made its first acquisition since securing multi-million pound private equity backing, snapping up well-known two-branch estate agency Roy Brooks.
LRG buys 13-branch Gibbs Gillespie
Leaders Romans Group has acquired Gibbs Gillespie, an independent estate agency covering Middlesex, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire.
John D Wood’s Polly Ogden Duffy on achieving record results & challenging outdated views
Recently appointed as the first female MD of one of the UK’s oldest estate agencies, Polly Ogden Duffy has just overseen an outstanding year of trading at John D Wood - in the face of some extraordinary…
Countrywide sets out timetable for stock market departure
Countrywide Plc is due to disappear from the stock market next week, as a takeover by Connells Group forges ahead.
Sotheby’s Realty reports 32% sales jump
Sotheby’s International Realty saw its sales figures rocket by nearly a third last year, despite international travel restrictions and multiple Coronavirus lockdowns.
Rightmove profits plunge by 37%
Estate agents paid Rightmove an average of 28% less per branch in 2020 compared to 2019 - but the property portal expects marketing spending to recover to at least pre-pandemic levels this year.
Savills Mayfair reports bumper year; takes on £100m mega-instruction
The flagship office on North Audley Street has been flying with co-head of PCL Claire Reynolds at the helm...
Estate agents lose over £4,000 for every property sale that falls through
Research by Propertymark has revealed the top five reasons why buyers pull out of a deal...