Business & People
Chestertons makes the switch to electric
33-branch firm becomes the first major player to replace its entire fleet with zero-emission vehicles, while shifting all of its offices over to a renewable energy supplier
Purplebricks share shuffle as Woodford sells & Toscafund buys
Beleagured fund manager Neil Woodford has offloaded a chunk of his shares in the hybrid estate agency; hedge fund Toscafund has snapped up a bigger holding
Knight Frank promotes 131
47 Knight Frankers step up to become Partners in the business; 84 to Associate level
Prime Dining: Talking career paths & garden squares at Chelsea Barracks Kitchen with Qatari Diar’s Richard Oakes
Property lawyer & food writer Nicky Richmond popped into the floral-themed Ollie Dabbous pop-up restaurant at Chelsea Barracks to discuss career paths, garden squares and landmark developments with Qatari…
New members-only ‘digital club’ promises early access to prime property listings
Ex-Knight Frank man launches new venture advertising 'high value assets to an elite collection of buyers who want opportunities seen nowhere else'
Axel Springer doubles Purplebricks stake
German media company ploughs £43.7m into UK-based hybrid estate agency to take a 26.6% holding
Great Portland sells out at Rathbone Square
Residential property now accounts for just 1% of GPE's total portfolio, following a series of sales in the last year
Contractors shortlisted for Whiteleys reinvention
Four firms in the running for landmark luxury construction gig in West London
Property & business leaders call for ambitious climate change policy shift
Leaders of some of Britain's biggest business - including many from the property sector - have penned an open letter to the Government, calling for climate neutrality by 2050 to be put into legislation…
Fine & Country opens up in St Albans
New Hertfordshire base for global prime property network, as local agency JW&Co Langleys joins the fold
Most property vendors believe that traditional estate agents ‘represent good value for money’
69% of recent sellers who used a traditional high street estate agency thought that the fees represented good value
Capco’s Earls Court valuation slides another 10.5%
JLL valued the development at £412m at the end of Q1, a drop of 10.5% in just three months