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Countrywide turns in best ever January and goes on the hunt for a new CEO
The UK's largest estate agency, Countrywide, has reported its best January in 28 years of trading.
Stepping down: Grenville Turner
The firm generated a whopping £50.
Winkworth Oxford moves home
Winkworth has significantly upgraded its presence in Oxford, moving lock and stock up to a much larger premises and naming a new manager.
The firm's new "coffee shop" look
Glentree boss to reveal secret closing technique
Having shifted more than £3billion worth of bricks and mortar over the last forty years, what Trevor Abrahmsohn doesn't know about deal-making probably isn't worth knowing.
Levy lift to put self-builders back on track
Around 3,000 "mothballed" self build projects will kick back in to action as a result of the lifting of the Community Infrastructure Levy on owner-occupied and -commissioned homes, according to the government…
“Only 15%” of London’s new homes go to overseas buyers – BPF
Going by recent headlines, you'd be forgiven for thinking that nearly all of London's new-builds were being hoovered up by foreign investors.
Shropshire’s Elizabethan trove to go under the hammer
A rare gamut of Elizabethan and Jacobean furnishings is coming up for auction with Bonhams in Oxford, as a collection from Grade I listed Shropshire mansion Morville Hall is offered on 30th April.
Notting Hill, Holland Park & Kensington in “rude health” as prices per square foot rocket
The housing market in the swankier parts of West London (W8, W11, W2, W10 and W14) remains in "rude health", according to the latest from local agent Crayson.
Foster+Partners chief steps out
Sir Norman's Foster + Partners has decided to ditch the role of Chief Executive, replacing it with a more comradely Managing Partner.
Rightmove introduces broadband checker
Rightmove has added a broadband checker to its search arsenal.
One in three affluent Asians buying overseas
More than one third of affluent Asians have overseas property investments, with Australia being the number one destination regionally according to new research from HSBC, writes PropertyGuru's Andrew Batt.
Sotheby’s International moves into China
Sotheby’s International Realty Affiliates is making its first foray into mainland China, opening Beijing Sotheby’s International Realty within the next few weeks.
PCL sales transaction values hit another high note as Notting Hill & Kensington boom
The prime central London property market has been generating sales transaction values not seen since 2006, according to Strutt & Parker.