Business & People

The S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC - the world’s largest resource for index-based concepts, data and research - has decided to view Real Estate as a distinct asset class and give it its very own sector.

Independent buying outfit Watership Property has hired former Savills Associate Tania Thompson to cover the key Cotswolds and Oxfordshire patch.

The revolution - in the property industry at least - is being televised.

Nowhere is the construction skills shortage being felt more keenly than in London's prime resi sector. Build costs are rising, projects are stalling and in some cases, not even starting.

Luxury developer teams up with New York-based investment boutique Junius Real Estate Partners

HNW advisory Berkeley Law and its separate resi property and conveyancing business, Berkeley Hurrell, have been snapped up by legal services giant Irwin Mitchell.

So it's not quite as appealing as the Guadalmina branch, but Winkworth is continuing its expansion apace, notching up a new office in Reading.

The Candy brothers have apparently tabled a bid to buy the Financial Times.

Five estate agencies are vying for the affections (sales commission) of our resident doer upper, as he sets about putting his Kensington project on the market. But which to choose?

Helical Bar's Nikki Gibbard on opportunism, architectural integrity and being responsible for the biggest resi scheme in the City of London since The Barbican...

Hamptons and John D Wood owner Countrywide has reported record profits in the three month period to 30 September 2014, despite a slowdown in London's volumes.

Knight Frank has made a bundle of promotions, bumping 34 employees up to Partner level and another 69 to the Associate rank. On the residential side of the business, 25 have been made Partners: