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Winkworth duo pick up Fulham franchise
Faith Cook and Georgia Everton-Wallach have bought Winkworth's franchise business in Fulham and Parsons Green.
Second home tax loophole closed
New rules mean holiday lets must be rented out for a minimum of 70 days a year to qualify for lower local tax rates.
Holiday lets boom ‘crippling’ local rental markets
Countryside charity CPRE estimates there has been a 1,000% increase in homes listed for short-term let across the UK over the last five years
Former Knight Frank partner to lead Strutt & Parker’s London new homes sales team
Keir Waddell was one of the youngest partners at Knight Frank, and has worked on some of London’s biggest regen schemes
Charlie Willis on the rise of the prime property broker
American-style property brokers "are lapping up the choice it gives them" on this side of the pond in today's prime resi market, writes Charlie Willis of The London Broker (formerly head of Strutt & Parker's…
‘We expect another busy year’ says Winkworth boss as 2021 revenues exceed forecasts
Winkworth opened six new offices in 2021, and expects "an increase in approaches" from new prospective franchisees in the coming year.
Watch: Hollinrake proposes a new wealth tax on non-resident property owners
MP and former estate agency boss Kevin Hollinrake has outlined a series of proposals to make Britain's housing market more fair and equitable - including a new wealth tax on overseas buyers of UK property
Government launches new biodiversity net gain consultation
Latest proposals are designed to ensure developments are ‘nature positive’, with biodiversity gain ‘at the heart of all decision-making and design’
PR & comms firm signs up former EG editor
Damian Wild will be joining built environment specialist ING as MD in the summer
Savills’ profits run ‘very significantly ahead’ of expectations as UK prime resi proves ‘exceptionally strong’
"The UK prime residential market continued to perform exceptionally strongly through the last quarter," says Savills, "and volumes in the Prime Central London market clearly began to improve
London & Cornwall vie to be Britain’s most searched-for property location
Rightmove recorded just 3% more property searches in London than in Cornwall through 2021, compared to a gap of 24% in 2020, and 49% in 2019.
Super-prime buyers splash out on north London’s park-side mansions
The handful of large houses in the capital with direct access to parkland are in huge demand, reports Arlington Residential, after selling a £22m example in Primrose Hill