Business & People

London and Home Counties-centric housebuilder Weston Homes has opened a new corporate office suite in Marylebone’s Portman Square "in order to capitalise on the West End’s global clientele and strong…

The total value of assets held by the Crown Estate rocketed by 16.1% to hit £11.5 billion in the year to March 2014, with annual profits up 6.7% to £285m.

The Cadogan Estate has launched free 24-hour luxury lifestyle concierge service for all its tenants and occupiers.

Savills has hired a top development and regeneration specialist from Gerald Eve.

Berkeley Group's bosses quietly cashed in £25m-worth of shares just before the election, with Tony Pidgley taking home £18.75m. Shares were sold by the two Berkley bosses for £25 a-pop on 28th April;

Zoopla Property Group has hired the Quoted Company Entrepreneur of the Year 2014 and Cisco's Woman of the Year 2012 as an Independent Non-Executive Director.

There's a new name on the NW London scene. Former Goldschmidt & Howland Associate Director Lee Cash has just launched his own West Hampstead-based agency, Oakhill Residential.

Sales and lettings agency Chestertons has recruited Greg Campbell to direct its burgeoning estate management business.

The National Association of Estate Agents has flagged up that HMRC has been dropping in on random estate agency branches to check up on anti-money laundering protocols...

Georgina Wood will be in charge of coming up with "opulent" and "timeless" interiors across the firm's £500m portfolio of PCL projects

Data platform LonRes has revealed a top-to-toe rebrand this morning.

Knight Frank Finance has made two key hires as it looks to boost the range of funding offered to developers. Kate Schofield