Business & People
Candy consortium eyes Capco takeover, but Capco moves towards Delancey for Earls Court sale
Nick Candy is leading a potential bid to buy Capital & Counties Plc, the FTSE 250 owner of Earls Court and Covent Garden
Knight Frank suffers amid high-end sales slump
Estate agency reports an 11% drop in pre-tax profits, blaming 'still slowing or constrained residential volumes' in the south east of England
Hamptons toasts record lettings performance
Lettings division of Countrywide-owned agency posts best ever third quarter, with year-on-year growth in every month so far this year
Octopus Real Estate creates new ‘Head of Residential’ role
D’mitri Zaprzala has been promoted to run the resi show at specialist property lender Octopus
The number of UK property firms in ‘significant financial distress’ has risen by 78% since 2016
Sector has been 'particularly badly affected' by deteriorating economic conditions, says insolvency firm Begbies Traynor
Liquidators called in to McCloud’s HAB
Three property companies founded by Grand Designs presenter Kevin McCloud have gone into liquidation, but not HAB Housing
‘New chapter’ for Carter Jonas in the south west
Agency follows up the acquisition of Williams Gunter Hardwick with the launch of a new base in Clifton, and a refurbished resi hub in Bath...
Yorkshire agency launches city centre division
Toby Cockroft's Croft Residential has spotted 'a gap in the York market'
Oona Collins: Winning tactics for turbulent times
Successful businesses are not allowing geopolitical events to affect their ambitions, says top leadership coach Oona Collins -instead they are looking to innovate, as a mean of staying ahead and continuing…
Pidgely offloads £42m of Berkeley Group shares
Berkeley's co-founder and Chairman is still the Plc's biggest individual shareholder, despite offloading two million shares in two tranches this year
Portal veteran leaves Zoopla in corporate accounts restructure
Lesley Dunn had been with Zoopla for eight-and-a-half years, and previously worked at Rightmove
RICS launches ‘Value the Planet’ campaign to encourage sustainable practices in the property sector
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is encouraging its members and the wider built environment sector to do more for the environment, launching a campaign to promote the adoption of the UN’s 20…