Business & People
LSL ‘does not intend to make an offer for Countrywide’
Estate agency mega-merger taken off the table for now as LSL pulls out.
Allect Design Group appoints co-CEOs
Rigby & Rigby duo Iain Johnson & Wayne Stokes take the helm of London's biggest residential design practice
Global indoor air quality benchmark launches
Ekkist founder Olga Turner Baker has launched a new venture, teaming up with Metrikus to create AirRated, which provides property developers and owners with a "global benchmark for Indoor Air Quality".
How to greet clients in a viral pandemic, according to Debrett’s
Handshakes are out, but is a fist-bump too much? High-society etiquette guide Debrett's has come up with some handy advice for business folk to avoid both contagion and faux pas.
Hamptons names new sales boss
Mary Beeton takes charge of the agency's 90-plus sales offices around the country
Sotheby’s International Realty hits 1,000-office milestone; reports record worldwide sales of $114bn
High-end real estate network launched 50 new offices around the world last year, and now counts 23,000 affiliated sales associates across 70 countries & territories
Savills reports strong UK & global revenue growth
Savills saw a 10% jump in global revenues from 2018 to 2019 as the Plc shifts its emphasis from property transactions to "less transactional" services.
New index profiles 100 top SME property developers
Founders of the Real Developer Index 2020 say we should be celebrating the heroes of property development rather than dwelling on the bad apples.
Countrywide’s £38m LSH deal on the rocks
UK's biggest property services group confirms Monaco-based investor John Bengt Moeller has 'failed to complete' on the purchase of commercial real estate arm Lambert Smith Hampton
New buying agency expands into the Caribbean
Matthew Jackson's Oakmont Private Office teams up with Chris Parra's One Caribbean Estates
Savills associate director joins Knight Frank in Hampshire
Patrick Bishop will be handling sales across Basingstoke and Newbury
Chestertons names first international franchise partner
Estate agency Chestertons has expanded into Greece with its first ever global franchise partner, setting up "Chestertons Ionian" on Corfu.