Profiles & Interviews
Interview: Knight Frank’s Tim Hyatt on team morale, market resilience & the future of estate agency
On April 1st 2020, when the UK had been in lockdown for exactly nine days, Tim Hyatt took over the management of Knight Frank’s UK residential business and joined the group executive board.
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…
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…
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’…
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…
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…
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;
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.