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AccorHotels acquires luxury serviced home firm onefinestay for £117m
International hotel operator AccorHotels has bought onefinestay - a high-end and fully-serviced London-based version of Airbnb - for £117m, with big plans to roll out the rental business in more locations…
£1.4bn merger creates ‘a new force’ in UK resi investment
Qatari Diar, APG and Delancey have pooled resources to create a gigantor for the Private Rented Sector with ambitions "to become the leading player in the delivery of professionally managed homes in London…
Savills voted top grad employer
Savills has been named Graduate Employer of Choice for Property by The Times for the tenth year on the bounce.
Strutt & Parker to open up in South Ken as expansion continues
Strutt & Parker has decided to open up a branch in swanky South Kensington.
New St James’s HQ for the Crown Estate
The Crown Estate is moving its London operations to a new base in St James's.
Sourcing Property launches block management service
Jo Eccles' Chelsea-based search agency Sourcing Property has debuted a new block management service, recruiting KFH's Stephen Britton to head things up.
INTERVIEW: Alex de Blonay of Pure DNA on building luxury property brands
Former Head of Branding at Candy & Candy talks to PrimeResi about what makes a great premium brand
Northacre to sponsor the Serpentine’s Summer House exhibition
After branding up the V&A's "What is Luxury?
Versace skyscraper rebrands as first phase sales hit halfway mark
Dubai-based DAMAC has taken the call to "re-align" the moniker of its glitzy 5o-storey resi project in Nine Elms.
Online agent markets Ben Wheatley’s ‘High Rise’ penthouse for £110,000
eMoov may not be everyone's cup of tea, but they do come up with some lovely clickbait marketing hooks...
Archant launches international property glossy
Regional publishing force Archant has decided to pump considerable resources into launching a quarterly global luxury property magazine, after spotting a "gap in the market".
In With A Shot: British Land to take on first ‘Instagrammer-in-Residence’
Clarges developer British Land has partnered up with IGersLondon, one of the city’s biggest Instagram communities, to launch a competition to find an in-house Instagrammer.