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Knight Frank City & East has boosted its burgeoning resi development division with another hire.

The annual London Festival of Architecture, which returns to the capital throughout June 2016, has created a new role - Director - and appointed RIBA London Director Tamsie Thomson to fill it.

Former Redwood and Wriglesworth man Steve Hilton's new PR agency has bagged a haul of high-profile property accounts since launching in September.

700 property types turned up to London's Lancaster Hotel last week for the annual Estate Agency Awards, in association with The Sunday Times and The Times, and sponsored by Zoopla.

Peer-to-peer lending platform LendInvest has recruited RBS real estate veteran Steve Larkin to manage its new Development Finance offering.

Developer Mount Anvil has been awarded the highest Health and Safety audit score ever granted by the British Safety Council - 99.93% and a Five Star rating.

St. Modwen, the property developer and regeneration specialist behind New Covent Garden and Wembley Central, has made a couple of changes to its senior residential team.

The market may still be in choppy waters, but it doesn't sound like property firms are battening down the hatches just yet - far from it in fact.

Luxury travel brand Abercrombie & Kent's property arm - Abercrombie & Kent International Estates - is morphing into a new operation - Sphere Estates - following a management buyout by the company's General…

Global real estate giant Engel & Völkers has been on one hell of a recruitment drive, taking on 1,000 new employees in only five months. Paola Assetta

Westminster has announced a new Executive Director of Growth, Planning and Housing. Ed Watson, who's been in local government for a good 25 years, will take on the role from January.

Boutique developer and search agent Banda Property has recruited a new Development Manager "to spearhead ambitious 2016 development pipeline."