Business & People

A bevy of big league resi developers have signed up to a new "voluntary commitment" that could affect the way new schemes are marketed from next year.

This is buy-to-let on an industrial scale. Britain's biggest property services group, Countrywide plc, has acquired 28 lettings business throughout 2013, spending £23.

Savills Director of National Development, Simon Stone, has jumped ship to Candy & Candy.

Rummaging around the vintage bikes and "brand new" headphones on bric-a-brac behemoth Gumtree.com, bargain hunters may have been surprised to see a super-prime penthouse lurking in last week's listings.

There's generally two types of property videos out there at the moment; amazing and amazingly bad.

Agents Mutual is pulling out a regional sprint finish as the new property portal's Gold Membership deadline looms (seven days to go).

The annual Estates Gazette Awards were dished out at a snazzy do on Park Lane last night, with Jones Lang, British Land, Savills and Berkeley walking off with the top resi gongs.

32 years after Jon Hunt opened up a two-man office in the then up-and-coming Notting Hill, Foxtons has made it into the FTSE 250.

Mayfair-based buying firm Black Brick has just taken on a couple of new recruits, hiring former Foxtons man Jamie Burnhope as buying consultant and Sophie Amasha as property manager. Jamie Burnhope

Haus Properties - the agency founded by former BBC Apprentice finalist Jamie Lester - has strengthened its offering in Chiswick, appointing James Henen-Webber as Lettings Director.

250-year-old estate agency Cluttons is completely overhauling its brand, launching a modern blue new look as of 12th February 2014 as "a public demonstration of the profound changes which are transforming…

If you were wondering what all the commotion was about in Lancaster Gate on Thursday night, that's where the great and the good of the resi property world descended for its annual knees-up in the guise…