Profiles & Interviews
Interview: Marcus Bradbury-Ross & Charles Lloyd on launching CBRE’s new Private Office
Last year saw major-league agency CBRE bring together four Savills alumni – including one of PCL’s best-known agents, Charles Lloyd, and acquisition specialist Marcus Bradbury-Ross – to offer ‘bespoke and con…
New Business Realities: Andrew Russell on disrupting the top-end of the country house market
Continuing our series focusing on those starting and running new businesses in these extraordinary times, PrimeResi speaks to former Strutt & Parker agent Andrew Russell, who recently co-founded new estate …
New Business Realities: Morgan Rae’s James Rae & Luke Morgan on building partnerships with clients & designers
Continuing our series focusing on some of the prime resi sector’s brightest new stars, PrimeResi speaks to the founders of high-end building contractor Morgan Rae about their experiences of starting a…
New Business Realities: Alexis Stellakis & Harry Helsby on spotting a gap in the property market
Continuing our special series focusing on those starting and running new businesses in these extraordinary times, PrimeResi meets Alexis Stellakis & Harry Helsby, the ambitious duo behind ‘disruptive’ acquis…
New Business Realities: Thea Carroll on launching a property buying agency in uncertain times
In the first in a new series focusing on the realities of starting and running a new business in these extraordinary times, PrimeResi speaks with Thea Carroll, a former member of Knight Frank’s buying te…
Interview: Philip Harvey of Property Vision on the business of buying best-in-class
The senior partner at the helm of one of the UK’s most successful buying agencies discusses the impact of Covid on the firm’s trading cycle, key trends amongst HNW clients, and why buying agents are a b…
Orlando & Lisette Rodriguez on post-opulence & patience
The husband and wife team behind new practice Rodriguez Design Studio explain how to achieve timeless interiors - and why flexibility is the key to attracting buyers in the current climate...
Former Foxtons sales chief Andrew Weir on his new investment perspective
The sales guru at the heart of the Foxtons machine for over three decades made a big move to London Central Portfolio earlier this year; here, he discusses his ambitions as the new chief executive of the…
Charlie Willis & Rupert Collingwood on turbo-charging the American brokerage model for the UK market
PrimeResi meets the duo behind The London Broker - a collective of over 20 independent agents, including some high-profile PCL operators - to discuss their US-flavoured business model, the importance …
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…
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.
Homes from Home: Priya Black on new-build buyers in lockdown & how Covid-19 could change estate agency
Buyers are not responding to the Covid-19 crisis in the same way as to the 2008 global financial crash or to 2016's Stamp Duty changes, says Knight Frank's Priya Black, who heads up the Baker Street Ne…