Business & People

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.

Euan Munro will be taking on the CEO gig at Aviva Investors as of January 2014;

John D Wood & Co. has launched a shiny new website at www.johndwood.co.uk.

The Mayfair home of property tycoon Vincent Tchenguiz has reportedly been sold for a tidy sum in the region of £17m, following a speculative offer.

New property management firm Johns&Co has got off to a flyer, being formally appointed as sole agent by The Ballymore Group and kicking things off with the developer's new scheme at 21 Wapping Lane.

Venerable West County firm Stags has snapped up Dartmouth's oldest estate agency, Singer & Singer.

Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward, one of London’s largest estate agency brands with over 50 branches, has signed-up to new agent-owned property portal Agents' Mutual.

The looming launch of Agents' Mutual doesn't seem to be causing much performance anxiety at Rightmove Towers;

Did you know the French population in London has increased by 75% over the last ten years?

The hothouse property market in London appears to be cultivating a whole new type of buyer, according to one agency.