Business & People
FT: ‘We market ourselves on dating apps, surely we can sell our own houses’
'Frustrated homeowner' and journalist Simon Busch sold his London property without a traditional estate agent - and shared his experience with the Financial Times.
Top-end construction firm installs new Group MD
Castellum founders herald 'a key milestone' for the business as Lyndon Marfell joins from Walter Lilly.
London letting agent shines a light on the ‘uphill struggle’ against rental fraud
'Whilst digital and AI technology has evolved rapidly, rogue tenants have also evolved with it, becoming increasingly more inventive in how they trick the system,' warns Benham and Reeves.
Luxury real estate brokerage moves into Madrid
Christie's International Real Estate's latest new affiliate is looking to tap into rising demand for high-end real estate in Spain's capital city.
Buying agency platform adds two heavyweight advisors
Johnny Turnbull & John De Pree have joined Claire Whisker's First In The Door team.
Carter Jonas installs director of marketing, comms & business development
Anthony White takes on newly-created senior role at national property consultancy.
Winkworth reports rising revenue as sales ‘return to more normalised levels’
'2024 is proving to be a much more positive year for Winkworth than 2023,' says Chairperson Simon Agace.
Howard de Walden portfolio value tumbles
Higher interest rates and ongoing macro-economic uncertainty take toll on Great Estate, which owns hundreds of buildings across a 95-acre swathe of Marylebone, but chairman Sir William Proby suggests 'there…
Bumper summer for boutique London estate agency
Arlington Residential reports 'surge' in sales & listings across neighbourhoods from Marylebone to Hampstead.
Luxury property brokerage targets ‘an emerging affluent generation’ with global ad campaign
Sotheby’s International Realty's seven-figure marketing drive focuses on one-off homes, positioning agents as 'curators of the unique.'
Rightmove steps up support for Women in Estate Agency group
Influential industry organisation is rolling out a new leadership training programme and new regional events to help promote equality across the estate agency sector.
Rightmove rejects £5.6bn takeover bid from Murdoch’s Australian property portal business
News Corp-controlled REA Group put forward a 'non-binding indicative proposal' to buy Britain's dominant property portal.