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Matterport recruits WeWork marketing chief
Virtual tour and spatial mapping company Matterport has recruited WeWork's former marketing chief Robin Daniels to run its global marketing department.
Purplebricks slashes marketing and goes fully digital to shore up cash
'Hybrid' agency cans all TV and radio ads and switches to a 'complete online model' as the coronavirus crisis culls UK housing market activity
Post-Pandemic: What will become of the UK’s residential property market?
Major agencies have a shot at predicting how far transactions and prices will fall during the Coronavirus crisis, and more importantly - when they will eventually recover...
European investor picks up six-unit portfolio at The Hexagon
A European investor has bought half a dozen apartments at The Hexagon scheme in Covent Garden in a £7.5m bulk deal.
New volunteering platform encourages real estate firms to provide practical support to the NHS
Teams from Greystar, SAY Consulting, deverellsmith, and Be Original have launched Do Some Good, encouraging the property industry to pledge support for NHS and healthcare workers on the front line of the…
Rightmove cancels dividend payment; Berkeley revises profit forecast
Britain's biggest property portal suspends its final 2019 dividend, telling shareholders that it is "taking appropriate measures" to mitigate the impact of the Covid-19 crisis on its bottom line - but…
In Pictures: PCL agency launches quartet of high-end mews instructions
Chelsea-based Russell Simpson has taken on a batch of new mews properties, ranging from a turnkey specimen designed by Turner Pocock, to a character-filled pad above Roald Dahl's former home in Clapham...
Mortgage market could be frozen as lenders pull products
Banks & Government said to be in talks about pausing or adapting the mortgage market in light of the Coronavirus lockdown.
Official guidance on moving home during the Covid-19 lockdown
UPDATED: "Home buyers and renters should, as far as possible, delay moving to a new house" says the Government. But moves are still possible and happening.
£18m Mayfair doer-upper tucked away
Entire 1826 townhouse on Upper Grosvenor Street was brought back into resi use in the mid-1990s
New virtual viewing & design app launches in the UK
Gaming-inspired software has already been picked up by one of the country's top five agencies
Property transactions are likely to plunge by 60%, warns Zoopla
The property market "has not ground to a complete standstill" yet, says Zoopla, but demand is drying up, fall-throughs are escalating - and deal numbers are likely to sink dramatically in the coming months.