Location: East of England
Aggressive expansion sees Countrywide buy two lettings businesses every month in 2013
This is buy-to-let on an industrial scale. Britain's biggest property services group, Countrywide plc, has acquired 28 lettings business throughout 2013, spending £23.
Savills’ Development Director joins Candy & Candy
Savills Director of National Development, Simon Stone, has jumped ship to Candy & Candy.
Classy-fied Advertising: £10.5m penthouse goes on Gumtree
Rummaging around the vintage bikes and "brand new" headphones on bric-a-brac behemoth Gumtree.com, bargain hunters may have been surprised to see a super-prime penthouse lurking in last week's listings.
The £38m treehouse (tree not included)
Just as George "amaazing" Clarke finishes off his £100,000 sewage pipe treehouse in Northumberland, someone swoops in and perches on a (much) higher branch, building a £38m treehouse complete with rooftop…
New Head of London Development for Carter Jonas
Carter Jonas has hired former Lambert Smith Hampton man Tim Shaw as Partner to lead the firm's London Development team.
Still in London at 32? That’s not normal.
Hamptons has been looking at where the 250,000 exiting Londoners move to and when...
Ripple in Action: How Cambridge beat the blues
Few locations illustrate this (and last) year's buzz-phrase better than Cambridge.
Britain’s 50 most historic streets
House historian Melanie Backe-Hansen has compiled a list of the 50 most historically-important streets in Britain and Ireland, from Roman roads to Georgian crescents; street markets to village thoroughfares.
The Neg Awards: Winners
We've already had a couple of warm-up acts, but awards season proper got underway last night with the self-styled "property party of the year" (although the MIPIM UK launch at Claridges ran with a similar…
Two new recruits for Deverell Smith
Property recruitment consultancy Deverell Smith has expanded its team with two more appointments, as the firm reports the highest levels of activity in over five years.
Grosvenor buys up 12 acres of Bermondsey & Southwark
Grosvenor has bought a 12-acre swathe of Bermondsey and Southwark in South London, on which it plans to build 800 new homes and a business hub.
Candy GPS #2: The world’s luxury enclaves
In the second part of Candy & Candy's GPS Report, Savills' Yolande Barnes and Paul Tostevin break down where the rich are buying what, focusing on luxury enclaves of "play" properties around the globe.