Business & People
Estate Agency of the Year Awards: The Winners
700 property types turned up to London's Lancaster Hotel last week for the annual Estate Agency Awards, in association with The Sunday Times and The Times, and sponsored by Zoopla.
Crowd cash funds key hires at eMoov
Online agent eMoov has used some of the cash raised from the biggest prop-tech crowdfund in history to beef up its team sheet.
LendInvest recruits RBS man to run new development finance division
Peer-to-peer lending platform LendInvest has recruited RBS real estate veteran Steve Larkin to manage its new Development Finance offering.
Mount Anvil takes home top British Safety awards
Developer Mount Anvil has been awarded the highest Health and Safety audit score ever granted by the British Safety Council - 99.93% and a Five Star rating.
Read it and weep: On the parallel universe of the free property magazine
A lot of free magazines filled with a lot of very premium stuff get stuffed through Alan Page's Kensington letterbox. Who is all this for, he asks, and why do they do it?
18-month old Purplebricks becomes first online agent to float
Online estate agency Purplebricks - which claims to be the UK's fourth biggest estate agency (most customers) - has confirmed that it will start trading on the Stock Market with a £255m valuation on…
Pidgley: Continued property tax changes may cause unintended consequences
The boss of giant housebuilder Berkeley Group has warned of "unintended consequences" resulting from "continued changes" to property taxation in the UK.
INTERVIEW: Wilben’s Benjamin & William Samuels on why property is in the blood
Twin brothers and super-prime developers had sketched out their business plan by the age of 16
Strutt & Parker acquires Surrey planning consultancy
Strutt & Parker has bought AKA Planning, an independent planning consultancy based in Leatherhead.
AKA's team of six planners will join Strutt & Parker’s existing development team in Guildford;
Change at the top for St Modwen’s resi operations
St. Modwen, the property developer and regeneration specialist behind New Covent Garden and Wembley Central, has made a couple of changes to its senior residential team.
John Taylor debuts in Germany with new Berlin base
Luxury real estate brokerage John Taylor has boosted its tally of global offices to 21 after opening up a Berlin operation.
Deverell Smith plans 100% expansion as demand for property recruitment services ‘soars’
The market may still be in choppy waters, but it doesn't sound like property firms are battening down the hatches just yet - far from it in fact.