Business & People

US real estate brokerage The Corcoran Group and Euro-centric luxury property agent John Taylor have "entered into an alliance" to service HNW buyers and sellers around the world.

Recruitment outfit Deverell Smith has reported a significant increase in the number of roles being offered in country house departments across the South of England, a shift it's putting down to rising transaction…

Ground rent investment specialists Regis Group has recruited an investment director and a senior management accountant. Both roles have been newly created and are effective immediately.

Marylebone-based agency Rokstone is gearing up to expand across prime central London, after turning in a bumper year that's seen it shift over £140m worth of top-end stock.

Strutt & Parker has had a rather good year, posting a 22% increase in revenues and a 60% jump in pre-tax operating profits. In the year to 30th April 2014, the firm brought in £102.

Belgravia-based developer-slash-design-house Morpheus has hired one of Linley's chief minds to run its interiors and design output.

JLL has gone to town with its new flagship Warwick Street base.

In less than five years, Strawberry Star has quietly accumulated over 700 luxury apartments across London, investing more than £500m in the process.

Douglas & Gordon's staff are getting their hands dirty for this year's Christmas Kids Company charity day, redecorating and refurbishing three underprivileged families’ homes.

Top-end Surrey estate agency and OnTheMarket.com devotee Barton Wyatt has broken ranks to publicly announce which portal it'll be dropping under Agents' Mutual's two portal rule.

Some deserving accolades were dished out to some of the prime resi industry's finest at last week's WhatHouse? Awards.

It's ok, we're not going to report on all of these, but interesting to note that another prime agency has gone public today with the portal it'll be dropping when OnTheMarket.