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Mandatory New Homes Ombudsman to police ‘rogue’ developers
All housebuilders will need to sign-up to Robert Jenrick's New Homes Ombudsman scheme.
Countrywide & LSL confirm plot for property industry mega-merger
LSL and Countrywide - which operate around 1,000 estate agency branches between them, including Marsh & Parsons, Hamptons and John D Wood - are reported to be in "serious" discussions about merging
Symm joinery chief joins Harrison Varma
Harrison Varma Joinery has recruited Martin Williams as Director, after heritage building firm Symm went into administration.
Daejan moves back to private ownership
£270m share swoop to take the Freshwater family's investment vehicle back into private ownership for the first time in 60 years.
The Original PropTech Startup: William Carrington & Anthony Payne on 20 years of LonRes
Property data and networking resource LonRes is celebrating its 20th birthday this year
Architects’ confidence surges, but workloads are still down
RIBA's Future Trends Workload Index has surged into positive territory, led by the private housing sector, but architects' actual workloads are still 5% below last year's level...
Chestertons boosts franchise operation with two heavyweight hires
International estate agency Chestertons has recruited a pair of senior players from Sotheby's International Realty to help build its franchising arm.
Sainsbury’s teams up with FEC for Whitechapel Square development
Far East Consortium has been signed up to deliver "a significant number" of new homes and a new flagship Sainsbury's store on a 4.62-acre site in Whitechapel.
Fast start for eXp UK, with 50 agents signed up in three months
"Cloud-based" estate agency eXp has recruited a lot of new faces to its self-employed business model.
Savills rolls into cannabis joint project
Property consultancy has high hopes for the UK's budding medical cannabis sector; weed farming is potentially more lucrative than growing strawberries, says Savills...
New boss for Keller Williams in central London
Gaven Swan takes the helm of network's KW Prime operation, following the departure of Nicky Stevenson last month
The big problem facing London’s top estate agencies
After twenty years with some of the biggest firms in the PCL market, this senior agency insider - who has asked to remain anonymous - is sensing a 'huge change' in the air, with potentially serious consequences…