Business & People
Boutique London agency shakes off winter blues with £100m sales drive
Venerable Chelsea-based firm Russell Simpson reports a storming few months, tucking away £90m worth of deals with another £58m under offer...
Hill ‘boosts firepower’ with £200m finance package
London & South East housebuilder aims to hit £1bn turnover within five years
OnTheMarket has signed up ‘1,000+’ new branches since floating in February
But the property portal's share price has not kept pace...
MoD to offload surplus land and property via ‘pioneering’ online auction platform
Lambert Smith Hampton wins two-year contract as Ministry of Defence looks to further reduce its vast estate...
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;
Hybrid agency eyes Prime Central London expansion
Notting Hill-based YOUhome claims to have 'turned the old estate agency model on its head'