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Marsh & Parsons has expanded its Residential Development & Investment department by recruiting Matt Bird as its new Head of Affordable Housing.

Independent property search agency Sourcing Property has recruited a new member to its ranks of buying agents. Rob Chard joins the firm after spending four years at Deutsche Bank in London and Singapore.

Industry veteran and RICS Fellow Peter Goldsmith has joined the Chestertons board as non-exec director.

Hertfordshire-based developer Heronslea Group has hired a new Sales and Marketing Director from CALA to drive some "significant" expansion plans.

UPDATE: It turns out that Mark Francois' appointment to Housing Mininster was all just a bit of mix-up. Francois' name was mistakenly put up on the DCLG website...

Cadogan has announced the appointment of Jane Henshaw as Joint Head of Building Surveying, alongside existing Head of Building Nicholas Dutton.

The Conservatives will be the power party for the next five years, and they've even got a fully-fledged majority government.

Hamptons International - part of Countrywide Plc - has confirmed that it has bought North London and City estate agency Greene & Co.

Christopher Hamer, better known as The Property Ombudsman, has announced he'll be stepping down at the end of the year.

Peer-to-peer mortgage lender LendInvest has hired Microsoft's Director of Global Brand and Marketing Strategy as its new Chief Marketing Officer.

Both the Managing Director and the Group Commercial Director of Countrywide - which owns John D Wood, Faron Sutaria and many more estate agency brands - will be stepping down from their positions in the…

Simon Pallett has been elected as the new Chairman of Carter Jonas.