Business
Record intake for BNP Paribas & Strutt’s graduate programme
BNP Paribas Real Estate has hired 50 new graduates this year, up from 15 in 2017, with Strutt & Parker's rural division taking the biggest batch
Amazon moves into house-building with modular construction investment
Online retail and tech giant Amazon has made its first investment foray into the house-building sector, backing an American modular construction start-up.
81% of instructions are sold within 12 months, claims Purplebricks as it eyes a 10% UK market share
Online estate agency claims 'brand awareness levels higher than the leading property portals'
Yopa recruits Knight Frank man to key London role
Fixed fee estate agency continues its expansion drive following August's £20m investment boost
Barnes International launches a commercial property arm
Ben Hall joins Alex Newall's team to tap into London's prime commercial scene
Knight Frank ‘significantly’ boosts resi development & build-to-rent teams
Top property consultancy makes a batch of new hires, including adding 14 to its resi development division and expanding build-to-rent into the North of England
Winkworth expands into Northampton
Estate agency opens its fourth new branch this year
Create a nationalised property developer to solve the housing crisis, says Quirk
Online estate agency boss pitches a plan to create 'UK Housing Plc' to 'side-step big house-builders' in an effort get more homes built
Fladgate bolsters real estate practice with Mishcon hire
Helen Curtis-Goulding joins 250-year-old law firm as partner and head of resi
The hybrid estate agency model is ‘fundamentally flawed’, says Connells as it shuts down Hatched
'We have thoroughly tested the hybrid model and have reached the conclusion that it does not produce a viable economic result', says Connells chief David Plumtree
Punchy business acquisition drive sees estate agency ‘capitalise on a consolidating market’
21 deals have already been done this year, says Belvoir boss, with six more acquisitions in the pipeline and 15 more 'under consideration'
Milton Stone acquires Druce’s South Ken operation
Sacha Moussaieff's boutique firm makes its second play in south west London, acquiring a branch of one of London's oldest estate agencies