Business & People
Almacantar signs up to sponsor RIBA Stirling Prize
            London-based developer Almacantar has signed a "major partnership" to sponsor the most prestigious award in British architecture, the RIBA Stirling Prize, for the next three years.
        
    London’s latest dinner party boast? The PCL vendors ‘anti-marketing’ their properties
            Without wanting to burden you with another buzzphrase, it seems the "anti-marketing" campaign is all the rage in prime central London at the moment.
        
    US operations drive Savills revenue up 27% despite weak UK resi performance
            Savills plc's global revenue shot up by 27%to £547m in the first half of the year, despite "the expected weakness in the UK Residential market."
        
    Former Good Relations partner launches ‘no fluff’ property PR firm
            Two former members of Good Relations' specialist property PR division have teamed up to launch a new indie agency in Midtown.
        
    Savills buys Aussie estate agency; opens flagship resi office
            Savills has completed its acquisition of Sydney-based real estate agency Cordeau Marshall.
        
    Ex-Deverell Smith man launches Midlands recruitment firm
            A top PCL recruitment consultant has decided to tap into the Midlands property market with his new venture.
        
    Knight Frank City & East boosts development team
            Knight Frank City & East has ramped up its resi development department with a dedicated acquisitions offering.
        
    Gstaad, St Moritz, Monaco, Mayfair: Mount Street gets its own travel poster
            Never short on marketing ideas, independent agency Wetherell has really excelled itself this time.        
    INTERVIEW: Manhattan Loft Corporation’s Harry Handelsman on breaking the mould
            PrimeResi meets the man behind one of the very few property development superbrands...         
    Election hammers Countrywide’s profits
            Countrywide has posted a big slump in pre-tax profits after a "difficult" H1.
Announcing its results for the year to June, the UK's biggest estate agency said pre-tax profits of £28.        
    The Collection LLP boosts property management team
            Mayfair-based consultancy The Collection LLP has hired Chloé Tilby as Property Manager.
        
    Rightmove claims to have 50% more property listings than any other UK portal
            Rightmove has announced a 10% increase the number of UK property listings over the first half of the year, taking the portal's share of traffic to the top four UK property websites up from 77% in June…