Agencies & People
News covering the businesses, activities, people and personalities in estate agency and letting agency and wider residential property industry.
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OnTheMarket appoints permanent AND interim CFOs
The portal has announced Tom Carter will take over from Clive Beattie, but there is no start date yet.
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Growing agent-run recruitment firm hires leading player
Agent Recruit welcomes estate and lettings pro, Matt Evans, to help take the fledgling business to the next level.
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Former Rightmove boss to run major magazine publisher – news report
Former Rightmove boss Peter Brooks-Johnson is hoping to become boss at Future, which runs dozens of big UK magazine titles.
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Purplebricks CEO confirms new sales chief as crucial year begins
Industry veteran Vince Courtney joins the agency as it fights falling revenue and profit, and attempts to make a turnaround plan successful.
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Senior estate agency stalwart celebrates 20 years with Hamptons
One of Hamptons’ all-female executive team who rose through the company ranks is celebrating 20 years with the company. Mary Beeton, who is now head of residential sales and residential development, (main picture) started with the company in 2003 when a pint of milk was only 36p. She enjoyed some successful years as associate director in the firm’s Wimbledon Village branch before becoming regional director in 2010, overseeing branches in north, south, and east London. She later became head of sales for London, and then the company’s overall head of sales with responsibility for residential development. Currently, she looks after 92 branches and 12 land and new home ‘hubs’ that make up Hamptons residential sales and development divisions. ‘Amazing career’ Beeton is a keen environmentalist and she formed the company’s working group on sustainability, Project Planet, in 2018. The group has overseen the planting of more than 2,800 carbon-absorbing Mangrove trees, made each of Hamptons’ 96 branches a ‘refill station’, and donated £12,000 to the Marine Conservation Society. “Your passion, drive, and ambition were apparent from the start” Lesley Cairns, managing director at Hamptons, says: “I’d like to congratulate and thank Mary for an amazing career with endless achievements along…
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Former TV presenter and Purplebricks LPE joins growing agency
Fiona Pagett only joined the property industry in 2019 after a career in TV, PR and sport - but is now partner at Paton & Co.
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All change at proptech giant Reapit as top team is rejigged
The CRM giant has made Mark Armstrong Group CEO and put Patrick Hannah in temporary charge of UK operations as it concentrates on 'consolidation'.
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Huge expansion at Dexters makes firm London’s largest independent agency
Dexters has opened nine offices in South East London taking its total tally to over 80 and more than any other single estate agent chain.
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Agent slams solicitors demanding ‘freebie’ valuations for divorce cases
Skelmersdale-based agent says he’s fed up with solicitors abusing his firms’ ‘free valuations’ just so they can stack up their figures in probate and divorce cases.
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Martin & Co agency owner jailed for fraud offences
Bhavander Singh Sanghera was convicted after a court heard a tenant was told to pay the utility bills for two properties.
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