Business & People

Valuing on square footage alone is lazy, crude and plain wrong - it's how you use the space that counts, says Simon Barnes... 

Cluttons has announced the appointment of Marc McConnell as Global Business Development Director.

Paul O’Neill has joined private bank Butterfield as head of UK asset management. It's a new role at the firm that is intended bring its research and portfolio management functions a bit closer together.

Flemings Hotel has launched campaign to get Mayfair re-instated on the Monopoly board.

The call has gone out for the next Kirsty and/or Phil.

The owners of a house in Stanmore, called "The Bentley," are offering a free convertible Bentley motorcar to whoever buys their £1.875m house in an effort to drum up interest.

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.

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.

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.