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Toon Planning: Disney draws up grand plans for branded residential property development
One of the biggest brands in the world, Disney, is making a move on the branded residence sector, revealing plans to build large-scale communities from scratch
London’s Red Squares: Exploring the capital’s hotspots for HNW Russian property buyers
"An attraction of the UK as a whole for Russian buyers was that they felt their assets were safe here," says estate agency boss Mark Pollack
Trading Standards mandates new ‘Material Information’ for all property listings
Estate agents must include prices, council tax bands and tenures on property portal listings.
‘Green action not words’: RedBook pledges to pay for client’s projects to go carbon neutral
"We recognise the opportunity we have to be a ‘green influencer’," says Redbook Agency's CEO Tom Adams, as the firm commits to a major environmental initiative.
In Conversation: Savills stars Hewlett & Lewis on the evolution of London’s prime residential landscape
Interview: Savills stalwarts Jonathan Hewlett and Ed Lewis discuss seismic shifts in London's luxury real estate sector over the last three decades; Covid; Brexit; the value of Instagram, and tip which a…
Unreal Deals: Is crypto the future for real estate?
The Sotheby’s International Realty team delves into the prospects for cryptocurrency in international real estate markets.
‘Product has overtaken location as the driver for PCL buyers’: Northacre’s Niccolò Barattieri di San Pietro on London’s shifting luxury property market
“With little to no large sites left in the Capital many PCL developers will shift to boutique development,” writes the CEO of leading luxury property developer, Northacre. “F
Super-prime construction leaders team up to build a ‘better business’ ESG framework
PRIME is a new framework and scoring mechanism, intended to help small businesses develop and refine their environmental, community and governance credentials.
The Guardian: Meet Britain’s most successful estate agent
Gary Hersham is the "character-in-chief" in a lengthy and remarkably positive feature on London's super-prime estate agents, published in today's Guardian.
‘Transforming estate agency as we know it’: Knight Frank’s head of resi lifts lid on technology ambitions
Anyone who has not pushed the digital modernisation of their business to the forefront should be readying themselves for a shock in the near future, writes Tim Hyatt...
Battersea placemaking impresarios Murray & Twohig repoint business
“The name change comes at an inflection point in the evolution of our business as well as the wider real estate industry," says David Twohig of MurrayTwohig (formerly Wordsearch Place), who has been i…
Secret Agents: Quiet listings & off-market property deals have soared in the last year
More than 135,000 homes were sold without ever appearing on a property portal or being publicly advertised in 2021, according to new data, while a quarter of £1m+ sales in London were off-market deals.