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Real estate giant CBRE has hired a big gun to head up its UK research team. The firm has announced the appointment of Miles Gibson from the Wolfson Economics Prize, where he is currently Prize Director.

Savills has recruited a Big Cheese from the wealth management industry to establish a new Family Office Services (FOS) practice, with the aim of extending the property firm's reach into the extreme but…

Surrey, Hampshire and Berkshire estate agency Waterfords has recruited a new Head of Lettings.

Strutt & Parker has hoisted its colours in the Scottish independence debate: they're red, white and blue.

Singaporean buying interest in London property remains high (writes Romesh Navaratnarajah, Singapore Editor of PropertyGuru Group) although a slight slowdown is expected this year due to constraints…

House prices have risen by 1.7% since June, taking the annual rate of growth in July to +7.2%, according to the latest batch of stats from the Land Registry.

The sport of paddleboarding has come a long way since Jennifer Aniston first made her way across a turquoise Hawaiian bay back in 2007.

A mega-instruction of four interlinked Victorian houses spanning Barkston Gardens and Courtfield Gardens has just become available at a smidgen over £800 per square foot.

Foxtons plc had a pretty good first half of the year, with Group revenue up 16.2% to £72.8m (2013: £62.6m) and pre-tax profits jumping by 57.1% to £23.1m (2013: £14.7m).

Just under 800,000 sq ft of West End offices were converted into homes in 2013, says Colliers International, with another 1.82m sq ft of conversion projects now in the homeward-bound pipeline.

Mayfair-based buying outfit Black Brick isn't having much trouble bagging new business by the sounds of it.

Residential developer City & Country has just bought one of the country's most important period mansions - the Grade I-listed Police College at Bramshill in Hampshire - for an undisclosed sum.