Estate Agency News
Rents rocket at Battersea Power Station
Average weekly rents for one-bed apartments in the Power Station development have surged by some 17% since the start of the year, reports Benham & Reeves Residential Lettings
The London Magazine Club Awards: Winners
Knight Frank's Noel Flint picked up the Lifetime Achievement Award at CLEA's property industry awards bash
Secret luxury homes: how the ultra-rich hide their properties
The Financial Times delves into why the discretion of off-market property sales appeals to the publicity-shy ultra rich
£10m Mayfair home looks to draw buyer interest with pop-up art exhibition
PCL agencies Harrods Estates, Beauchamp Estates & Rokstone are marketing a four-bed house on Adams Row, which is hosting an exclusive pop-up exhibition of artworks by Piers Bourke
Belvoir builds finance offering with £3.6m MAB acquisition
Franchised property firm now accounts for 10% of the Mortgage Advice Bureau's total mortgage adviser base
Phishing scam prompts Rightmove to warn agents to be wary of fake email leads
Property portal is "aware of some agents who have been sent a link to a fake login page, after they followed up on a lead they received from Rightmove"
West London estate agency consolidates branches into a single ‘hub’
Orchards is replacing all four of its West London branches with one office space
Berkeley bosses ‘were accused of engaging in years of bribery with a partner at a major estate agent’
The Guardian reports that old court documents allege that Berkeley's chief "consistently engaged in bribing one of the partners in a major estate agency"
Waterview & Dexters partner up along the Thames
Dexters continues it expansion drive in London, taking on 25-year-old specialist estate agency Waterview
Gazumping levels drop across the country – but soar in London
One in four UK buyers has been gazumped in the last year, says Emoov; that figure rockets to two out of three in the capital
Humberts launches its first ‘revolutionary’ property hub; rolls out a lifestyle concierge service
Estate agency opens a 5,000 square foot "high tech, high touch" space in Poundbury, Dorset, and rolls out a new "Humberts Living" concierge brand
London’s super-prime market holds steady; pent-up demand building
Despite intense political uncertainty, transactions above £10m are only marginally down on last year, reports Knight Frank, and activity levels look to be on the rise as vendors over-compensate on pricing...