Business & People
Boodle Hatfield boosts Private Client & Tax team with partner hire
Rising star Kyra Motley joins from Taylor Wessing
Knight Frank expands Global Prime team
Agency strengthens private client offering to "help cement position as the leading real estate company in the £10m+ market”
ZPG profits jump by a third as £2.2bn Silver Lake sale pushes ahead
Proptech giant posts a strong first half as shareholder vote looms
GPE reduces exposure in London’s ‘under pressure’ resi market
Investor and developer only has two more Rathbone Square units left to shift; resi now makes up just 2% of portfolio by value...
Luxury holiday lettings firm buys Humberts
It's 'business as usual' for the venerable estate agency, says the surprising new owner, with jobs 'safeguarded for all current members of staff'
Reapit acquires estate agency software firm
Established specialist tech outfit Resource Techniques has been bought
Candy finance chief joins Tuscan as CFO
Recently-launched bridging lender Tuscan Capital names former Candy & Candy CFO as its Chief Financial Officer
LonRes partners with Let Alliance to offer an ‘end-to-end solution’ for London letting agents
Property data resource and agents' network LonRes has teamed up with lettings services provider Let Alliance to offer "a new world of revenue opportunities" for letting agents
Another tough quarter for Foxtons
"London's leading estate agency" reports Q1 revenue of £24.5m, down from £28.7m in Q1 2017, amid "very challenging conditions"...
RICS moots an ‘honesty pledge’ for property professionals against corruption
Surveying body looks to clean up the property and construction sector, stamping out professional bribery and corruption, money laundering and terrorist financing
TPO awarded UK consumers £1.36m last year
Redress scheme received 3,658 formal complaints about estate agencies over the last 12 months, up 3% on last year
CBRE appoints MD of Residential
Luke Mills steps up to lead agency's West End-based resi division, which now claims the highest market share of new development schemes in the capital