Business & People
Rightmove recruits former ARLA boss
David Cox has joined the UK's biggest property portal as legal & compliance director.
‘Major shifts that are set to stay’: Post-lockdown trends & opportunities in the prime resi design sector
With input from some of PCL's top studios, recruiter Jason Bailey reports on the design industry's drastic transformation over the last six months, and explains why now could be a prime time to launch…
High-profile architecture practice Dixon Jones closes its doors
Jeremy Dixon and Edward Jones' venerable firm, which has been involved in some of the biggest development projects in PCL, said the last six months had been a 'very unhappy period'
KFH appoints a new Head of Lettings Management
Sophie Danes previously ran residential property management teams at Get Living, Knight Frank, CBRE and John D Wood.
Estate agency sector sees a ‘marked rise’ in short-term 3-6 month employment contracts
“I must have dealt with more short-term contracts in the last quarter than in any previous three-month period throughout my 30 years in the industry," says the boss of a property recruitment agency.
Estate agency network rolls out a new Facebook marketing tool to target potential home-movers – before they start house-hunting
The Guild's latest marketing tool promises to "reel in buyers on social media" before they even start house-hunting.
Argent’s Freeman confirmed as Homes England Chair
Argent co-founder Peter Freeman is the new boss of the Government's housing deliver body, Homes England.
Cain International trades Mayfair for Islington Square
Real estate investor sets up home at one of its first developments.
Knight Frank recruits Downton star to voice debut radio ad
Hugh Bonneville will be fronting the next phase of the agency’s ‘partners in property‘ marketing campaign.
Fine & Country Leamington Spa merges with Maison Property
Sarah Garland has bought into the Fine & Country brand, teaming up with the F&C incumbent in Leamington Spa.
Change at the top as Countrywide proposes a massive private equity ‘recapitalisation’
Countrywide Plc has announced a proposed "recapitalisation of the business" with a £90m private equity injection creating a new controlling shareholder, contingent on a new Chairman and CEO.
Knight Frank makes a move on Paris with new resi venture
Agency's first foray into the French capital's residential market will be in partnership with well-established local firm Junot;