Business & People
Legal & General acquires 100% of ‘the UK’s most up-market major housebuilder’
The FTSE 100 insurance firm has paid £315m for the 52% of CALA Homes that it did not already own
Chestertons teams up with EY
Estate agency and professional services giant partner to offer top-level tax advice to property buyers
Property salaries rise to a ten-year high
But the gender pay gap is still rife; female property professionals earn an average of 31% less than their male counterparts
Coutts backs out of MIPIM
Queen's bank loses taste for champagne-soaked property conference on the French Riviera...
Martin’s Properties names its first non-family MD; rebrands
Big changes at the family-run Chelsea land-owner
Westminster planning chief steps aside over property developer ‘freebie’ allegations
Robert Davis denies any wrongdoing; Westminster Council has launched an inquiry to look at how planning decisions are made
Countrywide goes ‘back to basics’ after ‘disappointing’ year
More pain for the UK's biggest agency, as sales and lettings divisions post 45% profit plunge; recovery plan to involve ditching hybrid direction, decentralising decision making and building 'significantly …
Hybrid agency eyes Prime Central London expansion
Notting Hill-based YOUhome claims to have 'turned the old estate agency model on its head'
Britain’s billionaires, ranked
Forbes Rich List 2018
Native Land & Rogers Stirk Harbour win South Kensington Tube development gig
Transport for London picks Native Land as its preferred Development Partner
Thackeray Estate boosts team as ‘£100m expansion plan’ takes shape
Mace Green's David Owens and L&C's Giles Hoare join Chelsea-based developer and asset manager
LSL reports ‘robust performance’ despite pre-tax profits falling by 45%
'Market conditions in 2018 have been slightly softer than the equivalent period in 2017' says LSL Property Services