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PropTech VC recruits research heavyweight
Pi Labs has brought in Andrew Saull from the University of Oxford Saïd Business School’s Future of Real Estate initiative.
Hamptons alumni launch new Cotswold estate agency
Liz Whitaker-Street and Amy Seager set up Whitaker Seager just before the Coronavirus lockdown...
Change at the top for Fine & Country as CEO Lindley steps down
Jon Cooke is taking over as Interim Global CEO, as David Lindley departs after ten years with the estate agency brand. Nicky Stevenson steps up to become UK Managing Director.
Leading RE looks to expand across EMEA
Global real estate network hires new business development director to help boost growth in eastern European countries.
CBRE assembles stellar line-up for new Private Office
Firm brings together four Savills alumni - including one of PCL's best-known agents, Charles Lloyd, and acquisition specialist Marcus Bradbury-Ross - to offer 'bespoke and confidential advice to private…
The Buying Solution recruits Strutt & Parker man for Southern Counties searches
Jake Civardi has joined Knight Frank's buying agency arm as a Partner, to handle property searches in Hampshire, West Berkshire, Wiltshire and into the West Country.
Listen: KF’s Victoria Garrett on a high-flying globetrotting career in prime resi
Knight Frank's Head of Residential in the Asia Pacific region, Victoria Garrett, talks through her career from London to Dubai to Singapore, revealing how her teams across Asia have adapted during the…
New Chair for the NHBC
After nine years as Chair of the National House-Building Council, Isabel Hudson is making way for Alan Rubenstein.
New homes watchdog advances
Natalie Elphicke has been installed as Chair of the fledgling New Homes Ombudsman.
Former Housing Minister Mark Prisk on political football, Stamp Duty & the Chancellor’s challenge
Interview: Government should tackle the issue of stamp duty for "last-time movers", former Housing Minister Mark Prisk tells Knight Frank's Tom Bill.
Caudwell Collection recruits a new CEO in France
Reynald Lapitz helmed the recent £84m refurbishment of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Knightsbridge.
Super-prime specialist Beauchamp to open a second French outpost
Top-end estate agency Beauchamp is re-opening its London and international offices after Coronavirus lockdowns, and has ranked the "detail and quantity of procedures" for Covid-19 safeguarding in each …