Business & People
Foxtons’ profits tumble by 65%; warnings of another ‘challenging’ year in 2018
Estate agency Foxtons made £41m profit in 2015, but just £6.5m in 2017 - and the current sales pipeline "is below where it was this time last year"
Luxury development firm goes into administration after £240k health and safety fine
Cheshire-based Huntsmere Projects won gold at last year's What House? awards; decision to close down described as 'a restructure'
BNP PRE, Strutts & John Clegg set up shop at new Scottish HQ
Newly-merged firms brought under the same roof in Edinburgh
Top buying agency launches PCL property index – excluding ‘second rate’ streets
Property Vision aims to create 'the go-to index for a very specific area'
Dexters teams up with Stirling Ackroyd to sell East London new-builds
Stirling Ackroyd New Homes will operate under the Dexters banner, marketing new developments from Shoreditch and Clerkenwell to Hackney to Peckham
Private equity firm buys Country Life magazine
Acquisition of Time Inc UK by former CALA Group investor includes media brands Wallpaper*, Ideal Home, Horse & Hound and Decanter.
Knight Frank names a new Regional Chair for the Cotswolds & surroundings
Bruce Tolmie-Thomson takes over from Atty Beor-Roberts, who is retiring
Almacantar chief slams McAlpine after Centre Point set-to
"I wouldn’t trust Sir Robert McAlpine Ltd to deliver a pizza after this experience", says Mike Hussey...
Strutts hires Foxtons man as Area Director of London Resi Sales
New sales boss Louis Harding to run teams across RBKC whilst driving PCL expansion plans
Rightmove revenues jump as agencies spend more
Estate agencies are spending 10% more per month with the property portal than in the previous year
ZPG’s Goddard to step down in May
Charlie Bryant to take over the running of ZPG's combined property marketing, software and data division
Dexters takes over Benham & Reeves
Four branch North London estate agency acquired by Dexters