Business & People

London property investments were attracting strong attention from Thai buyers during a three-day "Waterfront London" property exhibition in Bangkok last weekend, writes Andrew Batt.

Christian Candy-owned property lender Omni Capital has recruited a new Financial Director and a new Financial Controller to "bring further robustness" to the team.

The Royal Borough is getting seriously hacked off with developers advertising their wares without permission.

That bastion of high-end property advertising Country Life's online property search facilities have been fully co-branded with OnTheMarket.com.

Winkworth has provided some pretty interesting insight into the world of estate agency lead generation.

Carter Jonas has decided to add a lettings offering to its York operation after seeing the city's rental market rocket.

Foxtons is continuing to expand at a fair lick across Outer London, unveiling two new offices in Surbiton and Croydon and taking its 2015 launch tally to seven.

Edinburgh-based Malcolm Fraser Architects, which has won eight RIBA Awards, been shortlisted for the Stirling-prize, and won a Doolan Prize, has ceased trading, surprising pretty much everyone.

Chestertons' senior management have been "back to the floor" to try their hands at the daily grind of being a London estate agent, raising £14,000 for local charities in the process.

For any Chinese investors who haven't lost their shirts over the last couple of days, a bilingual property portal has just been launched, pitching itself as a virtual "China Desk" for UK agents and developers. Soukproperty.

Countrywide has decided to plough some more resources into its research capability.