Business & People

Tempting buyers with the promise of fresh air, a slower pace of life and bags and bags of space, country property exhibitions are definitely the flavour of the month this April.

We thought £50m in a day was pretty tasty, but Strutt & Parker has now upped the amount in offers generated by last Saturday's Open House Day - to a mammoth £78m.

Douglas & Gordon's MD Ivor Dickinson has decided to take a sabbatical after 26 years with the firm; Michael Hodgson, the firm's Chairman, will be taking the executive reins whilst Dickinson is elsewhere.

Jones Lang LaSalle has confirmed the appointment of Vivian Rosser as a Director of its Affordable Housing Consultancy team.

Country estate agency Penyards is making a splash with a new in-house marketing team.

Sue Kershaw has joined Grosvenor as Director of Programme Management from the Olympic Delivery Authority, where she was Deputy Director for Transport.

Saturday's perfect viewing conditions tempted buyers out from under their duvets in their droves, according to Strutt & Parker, and it sounds like they brought their chequebooks with them.

British history is usually divided up into Royal reigns. Knight Frank, however, has other ideas;

Following a triumphantly "down to earth" performance on BBC One's Countryfile earlier this year, Prince Charles appears to have developed a penchant for guest-editing, announcing today that he will be…

Dorset-based agency-to-watch YOUhome (co-run by ex-Hamptons International boss Jeremy Priestley) has beefed up its sales and letting business by acquiring independent firm Wellstead & Wellstead.

After reporting a whopping £25m-worth of offers and sales in just four weeks, Knight Frank's Sherborne branch has announced a new helmsman.