Business & People

UPDATE: It turns out that Mark Francois' appointment to Housing Mininster was all just a bit of mix-up. Francois' name was mistakenly put up on the DCLG website...

Knight Frank's strategic partner in the US Douglas Elliman has launched a new Sports & Entertainment division to cater to the "unique needs" of celebrities.

An Australian business school claims that “attractive real estate agents do achieve substantial price premiums”, quantifying that premium as +2.3% o

Italian investment company Exor has announced the sale of Cushman & Wakefield to DTZ in a deal worth over $2bn.

A proposed pedestrian and cycle bridge linking Chelsea and Battersea is on the hunt for a sponsor with naming rights..

Cadogan has announced the appointment of Jane Henshaw as Joint Head of Building Surveying, alongside existing Head of Building Nicholas Dutton.

The Conservatives will be the power party for the next five years, and they've even got a fully-fledged majority government.

Hamptons International - part of Countrywide Plc - has confirmed that it has bought North London and City estate agency Greene & Co.

Specialist property recruitment agency AMR London has morphed and relaunched as Collins Property Recruitment - with a catchy slogan: "CPR for jobs in property"

Agents' Mutual's challenger property portal OnTheMarket.com has revealed some interesting stats about its first hundred days on the web. Go

Christopher Hamer, better known as The Property Ombudsman, has announced he'll be stepping down at the end of the year.

Peer-to-peer mortgage lender LendInvest has hired Microsoft's Director of Global Brand and Marketing Strategy as its new Chief Marketing Officer.