Dev Secs reports performance ‘step change’ with record profits

Winkworth has reported a 17% drop in pre-tax profits in its latest set of results, after sales were hit by all that uncertainty around the election.

Countrywide has posted a big slump in pre-tax profits after a "difficult" H1. Announcing its results for the year to June, the UK's biggest estate agency said pre-tax profits of £28.

Savills plc's global revenue shot up by 27%to £547m in the first half of the year, despite "the expected weakness in the UK Residential market."