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Interview: Knight Frank’s Tim Hyatt on team morale, market resilience & the future of estate agency
On April 1st 2020, when the UK had been in lockdown for exactly nine days, Tim Hyatt took over the management of Knight Frank’s UK residential business and joined the group executive board. He succeeded Andrew Hay, who had been with the firm for 37 years. PrimeResi caught up with him shortly after the announcement of a third national lockdown to talk team spirit, market trends, future plans – and the agency’s ‘Cobra Room’ equivalent…
The Modern House founders target ‘marvellous historic homes’ with new estate agency, Inigo
Matt Gibberd and Albert Hill unveil new venture named after the 17th-century architect who sparked a revolution in British building design.
Grosvenor’s Tredwell joins PCL developer
Grosvenor Estate alumnus Mark Tredwell has joined luxury property developer REDD as Head of Development, as the firm looks to raise £200m to expand its prime resi pipeline.
A hole of your own: The lowdown on building basements in the post-iceberg age
Figures out earlier this month suggest the days of the mega-basement are behind us in Prime Central London, but what should those still intent on attempting a subterranean project know? The Property Vision team runs us through both the potential upsides and pitfalls of going underground…
Jo Eccles rebrands SP Property as Eccord
New brand ‘better reflects who we are as a business’, says founder of high-profile buying and property management firm.
Canary Wharf is having a moment – here’s why…
The ‘escape to the country’ trend is not the only way Covid-19 is changing tenant behaviour, writes Tom Bill…
Activity stirs in Prime London’s stock-laden rental market
The Prime London lettings market had a much busier end to the year than many expected, reports LonRes, but supply levels are still running very high…
Savills forecasts property price growth in most prime global cities
Of the world’s major prime cities, Seoul, Berlin and Sydney are set to see the highest rates of luxury property price inflation in 2021, forecasts Savills.
In Pictures: Touring Richstone’s latest super-prime project by Richmond Park
The top-end developer has created Langdale House as ‘the perfect balance of city/country living’, and is laying on a year’s worth of complimentary after sales care.
Buying agency draws up a ‘definitive league table of post-Covid property hotspots
National buying agency Garrington has compiled a “definitive league table of post-Covid property hotspots”, assessing the best places to live in the “new normal” of 2021 and beyond.