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John D Wood reports best year of trading since 2015
Countrywide-owned agency recovers from market shutdown to post bumper sales volumes and roll out a suite of new services.
Octagon’s exec chair to step down
Colin Tutt is to retire from the luxury housebuilder after 35 years.
Purplebricks alumni launch new hybrid estate agency
Steph Walker, Andy Vass and Mark Bruce and have set up The Agency UK, with ambitions to expand across the UK.
Gage secures funding for Surrey hotel-to-resi project
Gavin Essex's Gage Properties is converting the old Chalk Lane Hotel in Epsom into 21 apartments.
Russian billionaire picks up ‘one of the finest mansions in the Home Counties’ for £21.5m
Agents confirm the sale of Windsor Park Hall, marking one of the biggest Surrey house sales of the last five years.
Super-prime resi market set for bumper year – Beauchamp
Luxury agency foretells a 15% rise in transaction volumes and an uplift in prices, having recently tucked away a series of mega-deals in PCL and the Home Counties.
Richard Winter hires prime country house specialist from Savills
Deborah Moriarty has joined the former Savills director's eponymous new acquisition outfit.
Developer plots 54-home scheme near Whitstable
Southern Grove is working on a residential development near the Kent coast.
Developer picks up prime riverside site in Taplow, with plans for nine new houses with private moorings
Gage Properties has secured a £15m loan for the acquisition and development of a nine-house scheme in Buckinghamshire, each with its own private boat mooring on the River Thames.
Winkworth CEO: Hyper-local shift will support our expansion plans
Dominic Agace, chief executive of 100-office franchise network Winkworth, forecasts a brisk start to Q1 - despite the hurdles ahead - and explains the thinking behind a planned expansion of the business…
Buyer lands significant riverfront mansion in Berkshire
Agents described the Grade II listed West Court as ‘one of the most significant river front houses to come to the market this year’.
The ultimate lockdown retreat? Buyer swoops on ‘impossibly stylish’ Hampshire mansion with its own adventure park
Four-acre ‘country estate with a difference’ came with two lakes, a spa, a pool - and a woodland Go-Ape adventure park.