Business & People
Yopa recruits Knight Frank man to key London role
Fixed fee estate agency continues its expansion drive following August's £20m investment boost
Barnes International launches a commercial property arm
Ben Hall joins Alex Newall's team to tap into London's prime commercial scene
CBRE hires PRS expert from RBS
Real estate advisory firm adds another corporate hotshot to its UK ranks
Knight Frank ‘significantly’ boosts resi development & build-to-rent teams
Top property consultancy makes a batch of new hires, including adding 14 to its resi development division and expanding build-to-rent into the North of England
Winkworth expands into Northampton
Estate agency opens its fourth new branch this year
Lurot Brand pushes button on ‘biggest screen ever installed in a UK estate agency’
PCL agency teams up with display advertising firm to bring some big-screen action to Ladbroke Grove
Trendwatch: How HNW multi-generational living has come of age in the UK
From sprawling country seats to sets of super-prime apartments, increasing numbers of HNW families are opting to consolidate their purchasing power, save on transaction costs, and buy somewhere together;
CBRE boosts capability in the North with senior hire from JLL
Nina Barker to run new Northern resi sales and marketing arm for CBRE, covering major cities including Leeds, Manchester and Liverpool
Create a nationalised property developer to solve the housing crisis, says Quirk
Online estate agency boss pitches a plan to create 'UK Housing Plc' to 'side-step big house-builders' in an effort get more homes built
Fladgate bolsters real estate practice with Mishcon hire
Helen Curtis-Goulding joins 250-year-old law firm as partner and head of resi
Millwood recruits Strawberry Star MD
Former Strawberry Star and Berkeley Homes boss Nick Stonley joins specialist South East developer Millwood Designer Homes
The hybrid estate agency model is ‘fundamentally flawed’, says Connells as it shuts down Hatched
'We have thoroughly tested the hybrid model and have reached the conclusion that it does not produce a viable economic result', says Connells chief David Plumtree