Business & People

If you were developing a building as culturally significant as the former Beatles HQ, you'd be bonkers not to go big on the heritage angle.

Rightmove is doing pretty well, with big increases showing across the board  in today's Half Yearly Results: The number of advertisers on the portal is up a bit (3.

Kensington-based agency Rickman Properties has hired Simon Powley as Assistant Residential Sales Manager. Powley joins the firm after an impressive 18-year stint at mews specialists Lurot Brand.

Chesterton Humberts has set up shop in chichi W11, the firm's sixth offering in the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea.

News of another important branch opening now, with Savills confirming a permanent foray into well-heeled Marylebone.

Olswang's head of construction Nick Lane is joining Mishcon de Reya's property litigation group, boosting Mishcon's formidable real estate team to 19 partners and 78 fee-earners (12 in property litigation).

Rumours of a Foxtons stock market floatation have been bobbing around for some time now, but Sky News is tipping a potential public listing as early as next month.

Julien Mills and Luke Mills, the brothers behind Savills' London Residential Development team for the last 15 years, have jumped ship to join CBRE's residential team as Executive Directors.

The recently repackaged Deloitte Real Estate is  going on a bit of a "lateral hire" binge in an effort to meet the firm's big ambitions in the property market.

Although the phrase "international conference" can strike fear into anyone's heart, we have to admit last week's Fine & Country shindig looked pretty impressive.

London’s largest estate agency group, Winkworth, has just added more fuel to the flames of new agent-owned portal Agents' Mutual, announcing "large-scale support" for the venture this morning.

Threatening to knock the Royals off the Daily Mail's front page, a parking space on London's Hyde Park Gardens has just hit the market with a cool £300k price tag.