Business & People
Wage Wars: Golden handshakes return as property firms hunt top talent
After a five-year absence, it sounds like the "golden hello" is making a comeback in the upper echelons of the property industry, as firms battle to sign key personnel.
NAEA and ARLA to advertise for licensed agents
The National Association of Estate Agents and the Association of Residential Lettings Agents are launching TV advertising campaigns to promote the importance of choosing a licensed sales or lettings agent.
Prime Suspect: Olig-arch villain jailed after phoney viewings
You didn't happen to show a Kazakh millionaire called "Oleg Duchenko" around any properties in 2013 did you? Chauffeured Bentley, dark glasses, heavy Eastern European accent? No? Phew...
What Goes Around: How to refer (and get referred)
Effectively managing referrals to and from your business is the best way to guarantee great leads.
Parity Pledge: UK housebuilders promise end to ‘foreign first’ sales tactics
A bevy of big league resi developers have signed up to a new "voluntary commitment" that could affect the way new schemes are marketed from next year.
Aggressive expansion sees Countrywide buy two lettings businesses every month in 2013
This is buy-to-let on an industrial scale. Britain's biggest property services group, Countrywide plc, has acquired 28 lettings business throughout 2013, spending £23.
Savills’ Development Director joins Candy & Candy
Savills Director of National Development, Simon Stone, has jumped ship to Candy & Candy.
Classy-fied Advertising: £10.5m penthouse goes on Gumtree
Rummaging around the vintage bikes and "brand new" headphones on bric-a-brac behemoth Gumtree.com, bargain hunters may have been surprised to see a super-prime penthouse lurking in last week's listings.
Stick The Vs Up: How to commission a property video
There's generally two types of property videos out there at the moment; amazing and amazingly bad.
Agents’ Mutual hits “critical mass” in North-East
Agents Mutual is pulling out a regional sprint finish as the new property portal's Gold Membership deadline looms (seven days to go).
EG Awards 2013: The Winners
The annual Estates Gazette Awards were dished out at a snazzy do on Park Lane last night, with Jones Lang, British Land, Savills and Berkeley walking off with the top resi gongs.
Foxtons cracks FTSE 250
32 years after Jon Hunt opened up a two-man office in the then up-and-coming Notting Hill, Foxtons has made it into the FTSE 250.