Business & People
Spring Fever: How to prep a property for a pre-summer sale
Under pressure to make a speedy sale this Spring? Here's some seasoned advice...
Martin Bikhit, Managing Director at Kay & Co
Private Property Search gets new Country boss
Jessica Simpson is joining Strutt & Parker's independent buying arm Private Property Search from Savills.
Bird’s Eye Viewing: Carter Jonas takes to the skies for £10m manor house
Carter Jonas has just launched one of Oxfordshire's finest estates onto the market, complete with a suitably Downton Abbey-esque video.
Niche development finance firm launches in Surrey
A new development finance provider, catering specifically for developers of top end residences in the most expensive bits of Surrey, has just opened its doors in Leatherhead.
Harry Turnball
Hamptons partners with currency exchange to help foreign buyers
Hamptons International has teamed up with HiFX, the UK's biggest non-bank, direct to consumer online international payments business, to help out global clients looking to buy in Blighty, and British…
Agent Concern: The unintended consequence of the Chancellor’s pension revolution
Estate agents are likely to become the guardians of people’s pension pots, says Ed Mead. So will the Government decide who can and can’t handle this? And will regulation follow?
INTERVIEW: Greenland Group’s GM Wenhao Qian on moving into London
China’s Greenland Group has dived headfirst into the London property market in 2014, with two landmark acquisitions on either side of the capital.
Savills announces strong set of results as UK resi transaction profits jump 34%
Savills has turned in a strong set of preliminary results for 2013, with the resi side of the UK business looking in particularly fine fetter.
“Offers In Excess” not misleading – Advertising Standards
The Advertising Standards Authority has decided it's cool with agents marketing properties with the tagline "Offers in Excess" or OIEO.
The world’s top ten most valuable property portals
The world's top ten property portal companies are worth a combined £18 billion, according to some new stats on the matter.
Notting Hill Runs Wild with new property magazine launch
Runwild Media - publishers of property-porn-tastic titles including The Mayfair Magazine, Vantage and The Kensington & Chelsea Magazine - has launched a new mag specifically for the residents of Notting…
Tryon bags top HNW property award
Ed Tryon of acquisition firm Lichfields has walked away with the top property gong at the Spear's Young Turk Awards 2014.