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Hill hires London Square‘s sales & marketing chief
Rebecca Littler will be in charge of delivering a new post-Covid sales strategy for the top 20 housebuilder.
Virtual auctions are delivering real results, reports Savills
Agency hosts most successful July auction since 2017, raising £32m with an 82% success rate; live-stream format resulting in higher average sold price versus traditional ballroom events, says team...
Plans go in for major Edinburgh city centre development
Edinburgh's proposed New Town Quarter could deliver 300 homes, 100,000 sq ft of office space and a hotel on a 5.9 acre former RBS site.
John Lewis is considering turning surplus retail space into homes
"We are exploring with third parties the concept of new mixed-use affordable housing," says the John Lewis Partnership in a strategic review.
AI-driven construction management tool raises $16m
British/Israeli tech firm promises "to solve a challenge that for many seemed unconquerable", says investor.
Lloyds downgrades house price forecasts, again
Lender’s base case scenario now shows a decline of 6% for this year, instead of the 5% being forecast in April.
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Beauchamp Estates launches new base in Saint Tropez
International super-prime agency now covers all 71 miles of the Cote d’Azur.
How the rise of the ‘digital commuter’ is redrawing the property market map
“The Covid crisis has pushed the property market into a hard reset," says Jonathan Hopper of Garrington Property Finders.
Showtime for marquee units at Television Centre
Collection of eleven premium and penthouse apartments at Stanhope's west London mega-scheme have been designed in collaboration with some to the top names in British design.
Estate agents’ average commission fee rises to 1.5%
Agents in Kensington & Chelsea tend to charge a higher percentage than anywhere else in the country (2.32%) and earn the highest commission amount per sale (£32,430).
Marsh & Parsons’ Kensington sales boss returns to Knight Frank
Matthew Hodder-Williams has been recruited by his former agency to run one of its branches in Kent.