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Jane Duncan has been elected the next President of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).

Birkenhead-based resi, super-yacht and commercial fit-out contractor MPE Interiors has recruited a new General Manager to drive the firm's broad church of renovations and new-build developments.

Home counties estate agency Waterfords, which is in the midst of a recruitment drive, has appointed a new Branch Manager to head up both its Sunningdale and its Chobham offices.

It's been a strong Q2 for the lettings market in the Home Counties as rents have risen for the second quarter in a row, but are still 3.8% down on the year.

Brett Palos and Antony Alberti's property investment and development outfit Thackeray Estates has recruited former Strutt & Parker prodigy Charles Thompson to help drive some fairly major expansion plans.

"Party pads" tend to be chunky affairs with ballrooms and big kitchens, not 323 sq ft studio flats on the fourth floor.

Thackeray Estates - Brett Palos and Antony Alberti's development firm that has just hired Strutt & Parker's  Charles Thompson as Commercial Director - has bagged a major planning approval to convert…

It looks like plans to build Britain's first 'floating village' could actually be happening.

An 'attractive' exchange rate is often cited as a key motivator by international buyers, but exactly how much impact do these currency movements have on the world's prime residential property markets?

Another Sweett Director, Colin Bartlett, has joined James Caan’s project and construction consultancy Leadership and Management Limited as Director of mixed-use & resi projects.

The Campaign to Protect Rural England has launched a campaign - #WasteOfSpace - to crowdsource a map of brownfield sites with development potential.

Following on from this report on where the UK's fastest-selling property hotspots are, Rightmove has made the London data into a snazzy infographic.