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This has been a truly extraordinary week for mergers and acquisitions activity in the lettings sector. On Monday the private equity investor ICG spent £450m buying Lomond Group. Just 28 hours later they bought the largest remaining independently owned letting…

Paul Smith As 2024 draws to a close, the property market finds itself facing unprecedented challenges. These hurdles, many of them created by government, could severely impact how we operate as estate agents, pushing businesses to their limits at a…

John Munday Colliers UK appoints John Munday as UK CEO John Munday will be promoted to chief executive officer (CEO) of Colliers UK, effective 3 March 2025. Munday will replace Tony Horrell, who has been the firm’s CEO for the…

Stick a load of 18 year olds in a room and ask what they want to do, and the number aspiring to be estate agents will be close to zero. Was the same for me but I’m very glad I…

Lomond has agreed a deal to buy Kinleigh Folkard and Hayward (KFH), adding more than 60 new branches to its estate agency network, significantly strengthening its position in the capital in the process. The acquisition of KFH, which employs over…

Chan Khangura Huddersfield-based estate agent Chan Khangura has announced a significant expansion in his property agency business. Chan, owner and managing director of Whitegates Estate Agents Huddersfield, Brighouse and Holmfirth, has completed the acquisition of the Whitegates branch covering Pontefract,…

Woodbridge Woodbridge in Suffolk has been crowned the happiest place to live in Great Britain for the first time, as part of Rightmove’s 13th annual Happy at Home Index. Residents of Woodbridge scored it particularly highly for feeling that they…

House prices saw their largest monthly increase for two and a half years last month, the latest figures show. The value of the average home rose by 1.2% in November, according to the latest figures from Nationwide. This was the…