So that’s where Marsh & Parson star Liza-Jane Kelly went!

Senior industry veteran Liza-Jane Kelly has joined Savills to head up the company’s prime London market sales team just over a year after her shock departure from London agency Marsh & Parsons. She helped grow M&P from a minor operator to one of the capital’s fastest-expanding agents, enlarging it from seven to 27 branches. Kelly led a management buyout of M&P in 2005 with fellow director Peter Rollings, backed by Irish firm Sherry Fitzgerald, growing the company partly through the acquisition of local competitor Vanstons in 2006. But after LSL bought the company in 2011, Kelly unexpectedly left the company to “pursue other career opportunities” in May last year. Before joining M&P she had worked initially for Sherry Fitzgerald in Ireland before moving to London to work for Hamptons International. Kelly has been biding her time, waiting for the ideal opportunity to present itself, and her new role at Savills is one of the most prestigious and challenging within the estate agent industry. “I’m delighted to be joining the team at Savills, a company and brand I have long admired,” she says. Savills reveals she will be working with and evolving existing teams and concentrating on London’s core prime markets…