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Chestertons has confirmed Watson Briggs as the new department head for its busy New Homes division. The promotion to new homes director...

Knight Frank has announced a significant promotion in its London residential sales business.  Chelsea Whelan has been appointed regional partner for North,...

Prime London Residential, which describes itself as London’s largest single branch agency, has acquired 21 Grosvenor Gardens from Grosvenor, securing the...

Savills has expanded its residential sales teams in south west London with the appointment of two associate directors. Oliver Morley joins as...

Shares in Foxtons rose 3.42% yesterday off the back of its interim results. The London agent’s half-year update shows while lettings revenue...

Chestertons has announced its second acquisition in six weeks and third of the year. The London agent has acquired boutique Chelsea agency...

Two major agents have been on the acquisition trail this week. Chestertons, London’s oldest estate agency, has continued its expansion plans with...

High-end estate agency Strutt & Parker says its research points to a sales market recovery underway in some parts of the...

Property consultancy JLL has rebranded its residential China division to the APAC Desk. JLL’s residential China Desk was established in 2012 when...

A plethora of property professionals are ending the year with new jobs. If you want your jobs or appointments news to feature...

It has been another busy month for job moves in the estate agency sector. Here are some of the latest moves that...

Knight Frank’s head of London residential sales Rory Penn has been named ‘Property Adviser of the Year at the Spear’s Awards...

Global property firm Knight Frank has revealed the pipeline of transactions in prime London residential markets grew further in July as...

House price growth may be slowing but there is still plenty of movement in the property jobs market. Here are some of...

Agents and property professionals are travelling far and wide to raise money for charity, plus there is a new way to...

The property industry is fortunate in including many great people, doing great work across a range of businesses – from traditional agency...

The creator of a local social network app acquired by US company Nextdoor is marking a year in prime estate agency...

Foxtons has confirmed its intention to sell the sales side of Douglas & Gordon, the London agency chain it acquired only...

Chestertons, which is itself currently on sale, has snapped up independent London Residential, a firm operating in the north west of...

Hello and welcome to the latest PJT, your chance to catch up with who’s moving where in our industry. If you have...

A property company is offering its employees in the UK and overseas a day’s leave later this month to mark World...

Veteran agent and property consultant Dominic Grace, who recently left Savills after 37 years, is to take up a new role...

In the first of a two-part special with the presidents of the UK’s largest property trade organisation, we carry out an...

One of the country’s most exclusive agencies, UK Sotheby’s International Realty, was the subject of a Channel 4 documentary last evening. The...

A trading statement from Foxtons this morning provides a rare piece of good news for the troubled London agency. It says business...

A major agency is warning that the current stamp duty holiday could leave the housing market in a state of lethargy...

It’s a tough time for agents and our stories show a disturbingly high number of  branches closing - but there are...

A raft of changes in the senior management of Strutt & Parker is being heralded as part of a “shift towards...

Savills has kept in touch with almost 2,000 of its vendors and prospective buyers through two mass webinars. Entitled ‘What COVID-19 means...

A new buying agency has launched, aimed at well-heeled purchasers and sellers.  Called Xander Prime it says it is “acting on behalf...

Foxtons is reported to have closed four more branches across London, backing up widespread industry speculation that the agency is retrenching further in...

Another estate agency has provided evidence of the problems that continue to hurt the prime central London housing market. Strutt & Parker,...

Foxtons' latest trading statement shows another fall in sales revenue - but this time lettings income is down too. In an announcement...

It’s Monday so that can mean only one thing - a chance to catch up on the key moves in and...

Tim Hyatt, currently in charge of Knight Frank’s London residential operation, is to take over as the firm’s residential work across...

Savills, once a safe bet for year-on-year growth, has seen its underlying UK residential profits plunge 44 per cent with economic...

Transactions in the troubled prime London market have actually increased year on year according to Knight Frank’s latest market snapshot. The agency...

Two Countrywide brands have joined forces to launch Airspace Exchange – a service to push the idea of constructing homes and...

A high-end estate agency is reporting a dramatic rise in the number of US buyers in London as they have taken...

Hello - it’s that time of the week again when we celebrate the agency industry’s fantastic fund-raising. We were delighted that our...

Hello and welcome to this week’s PJT, the destination where you can catch up with the key moves announced in the...

Savills has this morning talked up its investment in onliner Yopa, which it claims is the sixth largest estate agency in...

Strutt & Parker says transaction levels in Prime Central London, already at a low ebb, plummeted a further nine per cent...

There’s been another raft of movers and shakers in the industry in recent days, so this is a busy Property Jobs...

Hello and welcome to this year’s first edition of Property Jobs Today, reporting on the first industry moves of 2019. We’re told...

Hamptons International - at one time tipped to be sold off or even shut during the recent problems afflicting parent company...

Two reports have suggested London’s residential market may be damaged by Brexit - both the past two and a half years...

It’s not just the Cabinet and the government where jobs are in flux - there are plenty of moves to announce...

A leading London estate agency is reporting a surge in overseas buyers sealing deals ahead of the government’s new stamp duty...

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned an advertisement for a new development in London after complaints over claims about the yields...

High-end agency and international property consultancy Savills has reported strong half-year figures for its UK business - but warns that Brexit...

Hello, and welcome to this week’s regular Monday summary of all the major jobs moves in our industry.  Despite summer and the...

The proportion of homes sold in London was lower than any other part of England and Wales last year according to...

Cluttons - which a year ago was bought out of pre-pack administration by a so-called ‘turnaround’ business, RCapital - has now...

The London residential market is at last improving - but faces a make or break situation with next week’s Budget according...

Savills has reported strong figures for the first half of 2017 across its worldwide activities, but its UK residential divisions have...

The latest market snapshot by high-end agency Strutt & Parker reveals more bad news for London - despite the agency itself...

Knight Frank has recruited an estate agent from Foxtons to run its Tower Bridge branch.  Daniel Woods joins from the firm’s London...

Last week’s acquisition of high-end agency Cluttons from pre-pack administration is to be investigated by the Pension Protection Fund. We reported on...

Humberts - until now known as an agency operating predominantly in market towns across southern England - is opening a Mayfair office in...

A well-informed industry article on the possible sale of Strutt & Parker to French bank BNP Paribas suggests that the deal,...

Savills has revealed relatively strong figures for 2016 in its report to the City this morning, with group revenue up 13...

The managing partner of a property investment firm says London residential property values have fallen by 15 to 25 per cent...

Prominent top end London estate agent Trevor Abrahmsohn says some homes in the higher levels of the market may now have...

Strutt & Parker says both the volume of sales and the sum of the selling prices of homes in Prime Central London...

Knight Frank has launched its 30th London residential office having opened the doors of its new branch in Victoria.  The agency says...

An agency that has opened a new office in the controversial Nine Elms area of London has published research claiming that...

Some of London’s ailing new homes schemes may have been thrown a lifeline by the decision of technology giant Apple to occupy...

New data from Knight Frank shows that prime property prices have dipped by 0.1 per cent in the three months following...

Several agencies have unveiled expansion plans despite the EU referendum, economic uncertainty and fears of a major downturn in the London...

Square foot prices at one of central London’s most controversial new developments - Nine Elms - are down eight per cent...

Savills residential fee income rose 10 per cent in the first six months of 2016 but the firm warns that it’s...

Countrywide has confounded its critics with an upbeat performance in the first six months of the year, growing revenues by nine...

A note to investors sent out yesterday by the international bank Societe Generale is warning that Brexit could wipe 30 per...

The weather may be saying otherwise, but we're now in June and agents will be extra busy as buyers look to...

Countrywide chief executive Alison Platt is one of 10 property industry entries in the ‘Power 100 Women’ list compiled by business...

Strutt & Parker won the UK Sales Agency of the Year award at the annual RESI Awards event, organised by Property...

Strutt & Parker is to open a new agency office in South Kensington on June 1, despite ongoing uncertainty over the...

Foxtons has reported a 4.1 per cent increase in its group revenue in 2015 to £149.8m  although its profits dipped by...

Morgan Stanley says fears over a possible UK exit from the EU and other global economic uncertainty could lead to “a...

Cluttons is warning that the prime central London market may stagnate for at least the early part of this year thanks...

The directors of Agents’ Mutual say they have “every confidence” in OnTheMarket as the portal approaches its first anniversary on January...

Reports suggest foreign buyers may be losing interest in directly owning property in London and are in some cases increasingly attracted...

Knight Frank has become the latest high-end agency to admit that the prime central London market is in the doldrums, with...

Knight Frank is the latest estate agent to admit that the prime London sales market is “subdued” - and it blames...

Zoopla says it has no comment to make on the decision of high-end London estate agency Chestertons to move from Zoopla...

Housing minister has Brandon Lewis has thrown his weight behind the right of foreign investors to purchase buy to let properties,...

The head of research at lettings portal Lettingweb.com says the National Crime Agency’s claims about hundreds of billions of pounds of...

A London agency has reported that it has not experienced the increase in sales and lettings it had expected after last...

A Conservative victory in this week’s general election will “unleash” a new wave of overseas buyers into the London property market,...