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Countrywide plc, the UK’s biggest integrated property services group, has been on a buying spree in the first few months of this year, acquiring another four lettings businesses in Q1 to "significantly…

German behemoth Engel & Völkers has announced a plan to hire 2,000 new real estate agents in a giant global recruitment drive.

The Green Party has offered up one of the property industry's most-demanded policy changes: a cut to VAT on housing repairs and renovations.

The Crown Estate has appointed a new Deputy Head of Urban & Head of Central London.

"There has been a sharp rise in estate agents bringing their mistresses to show houses, both for fantasy house shopping and bedroom rendezvous," reports a naughty website, flagging up one Bishops Avenue…

Prime country house prices increased by 0.9% between January and March, says Knight Frank, taking the rate of annual price growth down from December's +3.4% to a more modest +2.

London Central Portfolio has hired a new property search manager to track down "the best on and off-market properties" in prime central London.

The world’s biggest peer-to-peer mortgage platform, LendInvest, has announced a "strategic alliance" Plentific.com, a property portal aimed at the renovation/investment/development market.

Short term lender West One Loans has reported a pretty big start to the year.

Harrods Estates will be throwing open the doors to its new Kensington base at the end of the month.

New plans have been submitted to turn a grotty Mayfair car park into a 200,000 square foot neo-classical scheme. It's already being tipped to become "London's most exclusive address".

Knight Frank has rejigged its Residential Development department, making a bunch of senior new hires and moving some people around internally as part of a recruitment drive "which will see the department…