Business & People

Omer Weinberger's property development firm has launched its new "A:Living" build-to-rent brand, with plans to build a portfolio across London.

Damian Wild will be joining built environment specialist ING as MD in the summer

"The UK prime residential market continued to perform exceptionally strongly through the last quarter," says Savills, "and volumes in the Prime Central London market clearly began to improve

Global agency announces move into Pakistan with takeover of Colliers franchise

Oliver Barrett has been given a remit to drive London-based developer Rockwell's "flexible approach to acquisitions", as it "actively seeks large development sites in Greater London."

Ed Crockett has joined Savills from abrdn, where he was head of UK Residential Investment.

John D Wood has a series of events lined up for this year to mark the prime estate agency's 150th anniversary.

The Bank of England is recruiting a new chair for its Residential Property Forum, to replace Andrew Baddeley-Chappell.

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has written an open letter to the property industry, insisting that developers "must pay to fix the cladding crisis that they caused" - and agree a fully-funded action plan …

Hugo Thistlethwayte ran Savills' global residential operations for the last six years, having previously set up and managed the buying agency division, Prime Purchase.

The high-end global agency has launched 12 new offices across Spain in the last year

It's "the right time to shake things up," says the former Head of Country Houses at Savills and Knight Frank, as he launches an eponymous consultancy, specialising in high-profile new owners of prime …