Business
Property lender brings in Candy branders for ‘brand evolution’
Real estate finance house Omni Capital has hired a design studio run by the duo that used to take care of Candy & Candy's brand image to provide "a full range of strategical design services and capabilities
Zoopla and Rightmove release upgrades
Rightmove and Zoopla have both shared new upgrades to their systems: Rightmove at the front-end; Zoopla at the back
Kensington developer fined £10k for illegal advertising
A basement developer has apparently been hit with a chunky £10k fine for putting up adverts in the Royal Borough without consent.
LendInvest rebrands to reject ‘old-school finance’
Peer-to-peer property finance platform LendInvest has given itself a new brand identity in an effort to "reinforce its position as the face of new finance.
Five-fold jump in Thai buyers’ interest in London property
London property investments were attracting strong attention from Thai buyers during a three-day "Waterfront London" property exhibition in Bangkok last weekend, writes Andrew Batt
RBKC gets tough on developer ads
The Royal Borough is getting seriously hacked off with developers advertising their wares without permission
Country Life and OnTheMarket partner up online
That bastion of high-end property advertising Country Life's online property search facilities have been fully co-branded with OnTheMarket.com
Behind the scenes at Client Services
Winkworth has provided some pretty interesting insight into the world of estate agency lead generation.
Chinese/English property portal launches
For any Chinese investors who haven't lost their shirts over the last couple of days, a bilingual property portal has just been launched, pitching itself as a virtual "China Desk" for UK agents and developers.
Soukproperty.
JLL launches Nine Elms resi office
JLL has opened its eighth resi office in the capital, right in the Nine Elms mixer
Sign of the Times: John D Wood’s long-serving boards get a ‘modern makeover’
Estate agency John D Wood & Co has touched up its For Sale and To Let boards, revamping a design that's lined streets across London, Surrey, Hampshire and Oxfordshire unchanged for the last 25 years.
OnTheMarket queries Zoopla’s performance
Yesterday, Zoopla Property Group reported that it had clawed a few agents back from OnTheMarket in a return to “more normal historic levels” of agent churn. Tod