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The Country House Department recruits Knight Frank’s Loweth as Regional Director
Knight Frank's Hungerford office head has moved to two-year-old estate agency, The Country House Department.
Property comms firm Blackstock acquired by top reputation management consultancy
The Blackstock and Montfort teams will move in together in a new Central London office later this year.
New head of sales at Finlay Brewer
Debbie McFadyen has stepped up to run the boutique west London agency's sales division
‘The ball is still firmly in the seller’s court’ as the Spring property market kicks in
"Buyers are still predominantly paying asking price and above meaning the ball is still firmly in the seller’s court," says Propertymark in its latest monthly market update.
‘$70mn’ deal agreed on New York’s Billionaires’ Row
Marquee unit at 432 Park Avenue could be the city's biggest sale of 2022 so far
Knight Frank rolls out new AML tech to improve onboarding process
The agency has signed up to Thirdfort’s proprietary risk engine, which promises to reduce onboarding time 'to minutes' and turn compliance 'into a competitive advantage'
Ground rent ban comes into force in June
"This is an important milestone in our work to fix the leasehold system and to level up home ownership," says the Leasehold Minister, Lord Stephen Greenhalgh.
Monday Market Review: Key figures & findings from the last seven days
Catch up on all the latest market movements in less than five minutes, featuring data and analysis from LonRes, Hamptons International, LCP, Savills, Knight Frank & Rightmove
Former One Hyde Park head concierge hired as The OWO’s director of residences
Raffles Hotels & Resorts has brought in Andrew Broniszewski to oversee residential operations at the super-prime scheme in London's Whitehall, which is due to open this winter
End of the Chain? A record three-quarters of buyers are now chain-free
"The current pace of the market has put buyers with a home to sell at the back of the queue," says Hamptons' research chief.
More property market records go as asking prices hit another all-time high
"It can’t and won’t continue like this," says Tim Bannister, Rightmove’s Director of Property Data, "but with the demand and supply imbalance being so out of kilter, it looks like any substantial…
Galliard ‘caves in’ to Gove’s cladding call
High-profile property developer agrees to government demands to pay cladding scandal costs, reportedly accusing the Housing Secretary of acting like "Al Capone".