Business & People
Mayfair penthouse sells for £19.5m (a 400% price increase in 16 years)
A penthouse on Park Lane has just sold for £19.5m, breaking the £4,000 per square foot barrier and achieving a 400 per cent appreciation since being sold by the same agent in 1996.
@HenryPryor’s Top Tweeters
The busiest man on Twitter, Henry Pryor (@henrypryor), has been hard at work compiling a list of the top (or at least most active) property agent Tweeters
Interview: Nicola Lavictoire, Chesterton Humberts PRIME Property Sourcing
Chesterton Humberts waded into the property finding arena last week, announcing the launch of a new Property Sourcing service that goes head-to-head with London buying agents, including Knight Frank’s T…
Try before you buy
High-end holiday / property company Clarenco is trying to entice buyers for a bunch of its luxury and unusual properties by offering prospective purchasers the chance to try before they buy..
New Partner at Cluttons
Toby Whittome has been promoted to Partner at top-notch estate agency Cluttons. Whittome, formerly Sales Manager, is based at the firm's Belgravia office and previously worked at John D Wood
Major changes at CBRE
Martin Samworth
CBRE Group Inc., has announced some significant changes to its management structure
New Finance Director for Development Securities
Property behemoth Development Securities plc has appointed Marcus Shepherd as its new Group Finance Director
Bond Girls and Beatles: great for selling houses
A canny bit of promo from Knightsbridge estate agent Kaye & Carey points out that Ringo Starr's luxury pad, that he shared with his 'Bond Girl' missus Barbara Bach, has hit the market.
Candy on track to lend £1bn
Christian Candy's CPC Group has pledged funding and financial support for bridging lender Omni Capital to help the company hit its property lending target of £1 billion over the next three years.
Heaton’s Six exit Property Vision
More change at top-notch property finders Property Vision: following the company's exit from HSBC at the beginning of the month (which we reported on here), a hefty chunk of the team - including Regional…
Open House Day generates offers worth over £32m
Strutt & Parker's 8th National Open House Day, which took place this October, produced over £32m worth of offers for properties registered with the firm.
British Land’s CIO steps down
Property investment behemoth British Land's Chief Investment Officer, Steve Smith, will be standing down from the Board on 31st March 2013 and leaving British Land on 30th June 2013