Business & People
Michael Bruce exits Purplebricks
'Hybrid' agency announces surprise departure of founder and CEO - along with the closure of its Australian business - in action-packed trading update
OakNorth moves into the HNW mortgage market
Four-year-old bank has ambitions to build a £260m mortgage loan book by the end of the year, targeting affluent buyers and unconventional incomes
F1 champ backs top-end Monaco property firm
Formula One championship leader Valtteri Bottas has become a major shareholder in a Monaco-based luxury property investment firm Azurite
Sq. One signs Currells’ Cobb
New homes specialist joins the mixed-use and resi consultancy set up by Jamie Gunning, Guy Passey and Charlie Philip last year
The £95m Property Broker: Meet the mystery agents who buy the super-rich’s homes
Journalist Arabella Youens chats to some of Prime Central London's top buying agents about their little black books and the 'different rules' that apply to the super-prime property market, for The Telegraph…
In Pictures: Sobha Realty’s Park Lane launch party
Big-league Indian and Dubai property developer opens a flagship 'Global Studio' in Mayfair; billionaire owner PNC Menon confirms plans to build in London and the USA
Top family office launches real estate advisory division
Sandaire has hired Arbuthnot Latham's former Head of Real Estate and LSH Investment Management's co-founder to lead the new venture
Church Commissioners appoint new head of real estate
John Weir takes over from Joseph Cannon at the CofE's multi-billion pound investment fund
Quintessentially Estates ramps up search for international affiliates
Real estate arm of lifestyle concierge Quintessentially is on the lookout for super-prime specialists in HNW hotspots worldwide
Small construction firm workloads fall for the first time in six years
'A perfect storm of diminished consumer confidence, rising material prices and increases in wages and salaries' means that smaller builders are seeing less work, warns the Federation of Master Builders…
Buying agency Middleton Advisors boosts London team
Gemma Maclaren joins specialist acquisition firm from Douglas & Gordon
Historic England & English Heritage to move to a new joint home in Bristol
Conservation bodies sign up to Cubex's character offices overlooking Bristol's floating harbour