Business & People

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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.

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

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.

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…