Business & People
MIPIM organiser recruits former EG man to UK Director role
Trevor Goodman was formerly Executive Director at Estates Gazette; MIPIM UK will take place at Old Billingsgate in October
Legal & General builds BTR team with hires from Berkeley & Grainger
L&G brings in expertise from big-name developers to help reach target of having 6,000 homes in planning, development or operation by the end of 2019
Purplebricks offers free listings to Emoov customers
"We’re offering Emoov & Tepilo customers who’ve paid a fixed fee (or deferred payment) & not yet sold their home the opportunity to come to Purplebricks FREE OF CHARGE", announces Michael Bruce
Winkworth rejigs corporate & services team; creates a new Head of Lettings role
Claudia Green takes charge as franchised estate agency's lettings business nearly equals sales
Carter Jonas recruits a new research head; builds business dev team
GVA's Daniel Francis is now Head of Research at Carter Jonas
Black Brick picks up £80m worth of property in a year of ‘outstanding buying opportunities’
'There is still a market', says Mayfair buying agency, as it reports some significant savings made and plenty of off-market activity...
Zoopla trials ‘more relevant & useful’ Property Valuation Reports
New PVRs provide automated valuations via Hometrack alongside a suite of "hyper-local" Zoopla data
Savills boss Jeremy Helsby on building a ‘recession-proof’ property giant
The outgoing chief exec talks to the Daily Telegraph about his 40-year journey with the all-conquering agency
Knight steps down as Agents Giving Chair
Michael Stoop is taking over from co-founder Peter Knight as frontman of the property industry charity
Profits slide for Berkeley amid Brexit uncertainty
Influential housebuilder reports a 'lack of urgency' across London and the South East, but raises full-year profit guidance by more than 5%
Knight Frank promotes four to proprietary partner
James Clarke, Mark Evans, Gary Hall and Johnny Hawkins to step up next year
Zoopla recruits a new marketing chief
Gary Bramall joins as Chief Marketing Officer