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Top end developer Native Land has appointed big-name financier James Downing as Chairman.

Developer London Square is stoking its expansion with "significant hires" and a couple of promotions to its Ickenham-based land team.

New luxury developer Residence One has recruited a new Director of Architecture and Projects from Oliver Burns.

The team behind a raft of acclaimed PCL projects, including one of Chelsea's most talked-about new-builds of recent years, Echlin's Sam McNally and Mark O'Callaghan take on the PrimeResi Q&A...

Chestertons' Mit Kotak has been promoted to Director of Professional Valuations alongside Eric Shapiro.

Knight Frank has promoted Robert Adams to Salary Partner within the Prime New Homes team.

Investment firm London Central Portfolio seems to be going big this year, hiring a third new recruit in just a few weeks and promoting another.

Candy & Candy director Simon Stone has left the hyper-prime firm to set up his own development and asset management business, Stone Real Estate. Sugar Quay, one of Stone's projects

The Crown Estate has appointed a new Deputy Head of Urban & Head of Central London.

London Central Portfolio has hired a new property search manager to track down "the best on and off-market properties" in prime central London.

Knight Frank has rejigged its Residential Development department, making a bunch of senior new hires and moving some people around internally as part of a recruitment drive "which will see the department…

The CEO of Grainger has announced he is to retire after a two decade stint at the firm.