Business
LSL scraps dividend and cuts costs amid ‘unprecedented’ market conditions
The property services group is taking 'prompt decisive self-help actions' to help see it through the current crisis
PRS FAQ: Covid-19 guidance for landlords & tenants
How should private landlords, tenants and letting agents navigate new, existing and ending tenancies in the Coronovirus lockdown? The Tenancy Deposit Scheme provides some practical answers...
Matterport recruits WeWork marketing chief
Virtual tour and spatial mapping company Matterport has recruited WeWork's former marketing chief Robin Daniels to run its global marketing department.
Purplebricks slashes marketing and goes fully digital to shore up cash
'Hybrid' agency cans all TV and radio ads and switches to a 'complete online model' as the coronavirus crisis culls UK housing market activity
New volunteering platform encourages real estate firms to provide practical support to the NHS
Teams from Greystar, SAY Consulting, deverellsmith, and Be Original have launched Do Some Good, encouraging the property industry to pledge support for NHS and healthcare workers on the front line of the…
Rightmove cancels dividend payment; Berkeley revises profit forecast
Britain's biggest property portal suspends its final 2019 dividend, telling shareholders that it is "taking appropriate measures" to mitigate the impact of the Covid-19 crisis on its bottom line - but …
New virtual viewing & design app launches in the UK
Gaming-inspired software has already been picked up by one of the country's top five agencies
Estate agents get business rates holiday for a year
Left out of the original Coronavirus Business Rates exemption scheme, the Government has now confirmed that estate agents with rateable properties will not have to pay any Business Rates for a year from …
Taking a Hit: How property portals are reacting to Covid-19
Property portals around the world are rallying to retain customers as the Coronavirus lockdown quells market activity; British portals are offering the deepest discounts of all.
Meyer Bergman names new CIO
Private equity real estate firm recruits former Blackstoner Josip Kardun as Chief Investment Officer, as it ramps up its mixed-use portfolio across core European cities.
Savills Wuhan has not reopened
Rumours around the office at the epicentre of the virus being back in business - seen by many to be a light at the end of the tunnel - have turned out to be false.
MIPIM cans Cannes 2020; Paris gathering slated for September
This year's Riviera real estate get-together has been cancelled; it will be replaced with a "two-day Paris-based gathering" in September.