Business & People
Specialist SW London estate agency pivots to ‘supercharge off-market selling’ as a platform
Invisible Homes was set up as an "off-market" estate agency in Fulham in 2018; it's now transformed into an online platform to facilitate quiet marketing for other boutique agencies, and has nationwide…
‘Storming year’ for Knight Frank’s resi land team
Scarce supply is driving ‘incredibly fierce’ competition for sites, says agency
Strutt & Parker appoints two new heads for Cambridge office
BNP Paribas-owned estate agency makes another brace of senior hires, bringing in former Chestertons PCL Director Lawrence Brown alongside Becky Eeles to run the Cambridge operation.
New chair for BoE’s Residential Property Forum
Jackie Bennett OBE will take over the running of the industry-led group, which helps monitor the UK’s resi property sector
‘We haven’t even scratched the surface for Ghelamco in the UK’: Marie-Julie Gheysens on family business, sustainable development & ‘London’s playground’
INTERVIEW: Having already launched a major mixed-use development in Shoreditch and acquired a venerable prime London estate agency, the scion of European real estate giant Ghelamco has even more ambitious…
PCL stock shortage means ‘we are having to work twice as hard to deliver results’, says top buying agency
Eccord secured deals worth nearly £50mn in Q1 despite ‘exceptionally low’ prime property supply
Italy Sotheby’s International Realty opens in Verona
Agency launches presence in historic city after receiving ‘surge of requests’ from Germany, Switzerland, France, UK and the USA
Gove declares ‘a victory for leaseholders’ as major housebuilders sign building safety pledge
"This is just the beginning," says Housing Secretary Michael Gove. "We will do whatever it takes to hold industry to account, and under our new measures there will be nowhere to hide."
Howden swoops on SPF Private Clients
High-end mortgage broker SPF was formed in 2011 after a management buyout and rebrand of Savills Private Finance
Angel O’Donnell hires new sales director
Ben Axton has joined Richard Angel and Ed O’Donnell’s four-year-old firm from Accouter Group
Winkworth profits more than double
“We made excellent progress in 2021, with a good performance in rentals and sales income exceeding all company records," says estate agency boss.
Is your agency open to large fines under GDPR?
Many firms are still not adhering to the rules around data protection, which could result in costly penalties in the event of a complaint, writes cyber security specialist Colin Tankard