Business & People

2014 was also a big year for developer Mount Anvil, with a 33% increase in turnover (to a record £216.2m), a profit of £20m, and a 46% rise in the value of its pipeline, to £1.36bn.

Prospective buyers of units in a new scheme in the Middle East are being offered a pretty unusual sweetener - citizenship of a Caribbean island.

Candy & Candy's interior design arm turned in a whopping 46.8% increase in pre-tax profits last year, according to the company's latest set of accounts.

Top end developer Native Land has appointed big-name financier James Downing as Chairman.

Developer London Square is stoking its expansion with "significant hires" and a couple of promotions to its Ickenham-based land team.

New luxury developer Residence One has recruited a new Director of Architecture and Projects from Oliver Burns.

The team behind a raft of acclaimed PCL projects, including one of Chelsea's most talked-about new-builds of recent years, Echlin's Sam McNally and Mark O'Callaghan take on the PrimeResi Q&A...

Chestertons' Mit Kotak has been promoted to Director of Professional Valuations alongside Eric Shapiro.

Knight Frank has promoted Robert Adams to Salary Partner within the Prime New Homes team.

Investment firm London Central Portfolio seems to be going big this year, hiring a third new recruit in just a few weeks and promoting another.

There are at least 179 estate agency branches in the City of Westminster alone, with 2,600 vying for business across the capital.

Candy & Candy director Simon Stone has left the hyper-prime firm to set up his own development and asset management business, Stone Real Estate. Sugar Quay, one of Stone's projects