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LRG has acquired Chancellors with more than 50 branches across Southern England and Mid Wales. The Chancellors Group, established in 1807, has a strong local presence in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Hampshire, Surrey, London, Herefordshire, Wiltshire, Worcester and Mid Wales. The…

Zoopla has been put up for sale with an asking price of around £500m, it is understood. City AM reports that the property portal has been put on the market by Silver Lake Partners which has owned the group it…

Nationwide’s April House Price Index has just been published revealing that the annual  rate of house price growth slowed to 3.4% in April, from 3.9% in March. According to the data, the average price of a residential property dropped by…

Mark Ridley Savills has announced that Mark Ridley will retire as group chief executive at the end of 2025 after a 29 year career at Savills, seven of them as group chief executive, as well as 41 years in the…

Angela Rayner Angela Rayner has denied claims that she threatened to quit over Labour’s target to build 1.5 million new homes in five years. In an updated biography of Sir Keir Starmer, titled Red Flag, the deputy prime minister and…

Patrick Gardner One of Surrey’s best known estate agents, Patrick Gardner, who founded Patrick Gardner & Company, has died aged 84. Gardner, a life-long resident of Mole Valley, established Patrick Gardner in 1992, a company which now employs more than…

House price growth has slowed to 1.6% annually, down from 1.9% at the end of last year, as buyer interest cools and the number of homes for sale continues to expand, the latest figures from Zoopla shows. According to the…

The Home Office sparked fresh controversy over the weekend when it formally called on landlords to house asylum seekers to help cope with a record number of migrants. Serco, one of the three private contractors working for the Home Office,…