Business & People
Savills’ latest remote auction raises £40m
The firm has sold £195m of property at auction so far this year - nearly a third more than during the same period in 2019.
Earls Court Development Co names new CEO
Lendlease man Rob Heasman has been brought in as Chief Executive of Delancey's Earls Court Development Company, having previously run large-scale London developments in Euston and Elephant & Castle.
Industry heavyweight Everett joins Offr as head of agency
Irish proptech platform signs up ex-Hamptons country sales boss after completing a £2.7m funding round and claiming ‘the world's first digital property transaction’.
Reapit names new customer chief
Stuart Morris is replacing Richard Day as Chief Customer Officer at Reapit.
New sales boss for Domus Nova
Giles Barrett, who recently left Knight Frank to join tech firm Rentify, will now be heading up sales for the west London-based boutique agency...
Heavyweight organisations sign industry-wide pledge to speed up the home-moving process
The Home Buying & Selling Industry group has created an informal pledge to improve transparency and help speed up the home-buying process, which has been signed-up to be the RICS, NAEA Propertymark, Rightmove, …
Meyer Bergman recruits new UK MD from China Vanke
Lily Lin is the new boss at the firm behind the super-prime transformation of Bayswater's Whiteleys shopping centre, Meyer Bergman, having been UK head of China’s largest residential developer.
Interview: Philip Harvey of Property Vision on the business of buying best-in-class
The senior partner at the helm of one of the UK’s most successful buying agencies discusses the impact of Covid on the firm’s trading cycle, key trends amongst HNW clients, and why buying agents are a b…
Propertymark names new CEO
Estate agency body looks to steady the ship with a big appointment from outside of the industry...
Estate agents look to self-employment as a route into prime markets
"Many thought that the Covid-19 pandemic and financial uncertainty would lessen the appeal of a self-employment model," says Fine & Country boss Nicky Stevenson, but "it seems that it is having the opposite…
Knight Frank hires Rampton Baseley man to run Barnes branch
Paul Westwood was Rampton Baseley's lead valuer for the SW London patch.
de Walden appoints sustainability head from JLL
Laura Jockers has joined the Howard de Walden Estate as Head of Sustainability.