Business & People

Londonewcastle's Robert Soning on finding the right space and the importance of his firm's latest acquisition...

Fine & Country has opened its seventh office in Surrey, on St Judes Road, Englefield Green. Paul Garrod is running the show, which will specialise in marketing £800k+ homes.

With some agents reporting eighteen buyers per instruction*, competition for "best in class" has never been tougher.

Rightmove has reported a decent July-October session with "healthy growth in revenue and earnings" as agents spend more on advertising.

The Spicerhaart Group has signed up its 190 resi sales and lettings branches to new 100% agent-owned portal Agents' Mutual, joining the likes of Savills, Knight Frank, Chesterton Humberts, Douglas & Gordon,…

Knight Frank has added two newbies to its Central Residential Development team, based in Birmingham, "in direct response to the region’s increasing housebuilding activity".

Zoopla is trying out more newfangled tech, using live LED screens atop London cabs to "intelligently broadcast property availability".

Foxtons shares are pricey compared to other property floaters, but that's only right and fair say finance analysts.

Hamptons International is going sunny side up, having signed an exclusive partnership agreement with Coldwell Banker Residential Island Affiliates in the Caribbean.

Chesterton Global, parent company of UK agency Chesterton Humberts, has announced a joint venture in Singapore to "pave the way" for future expansion into Asia.

Jones Lang LaSalle has appointed 37 new trainees to its 2013 UK graduate scheme. 27 will be based in London, with ten other appointments across the firm’s regional office network;

CBRE has made another big resi business-building buy, following its acquisition of EA Shaw at the end of 2012, buying-up City and Docklands prime resi development consultancy/sales & lettings agency  Alan…