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Our final Movers and Shakers post (3/3) courtesy of our friends at PrimeResi Journal. View the full list here: https://lnkd.in/e-UXH37T Douglas & Gordon London estate agency Douglas & Gordon has recruited another three brokers to its self-employed model: Meis Butros, Christopher Janson and Rob Els. In addition, industry veteran Clifford Harvey has signed to Douglas & Gordon’s self-employed network. He previously held senior roles at Aspire, KFH and Fine & Country. The Stow Brothers East London-centric estate agency The Stow Brothers is opening a sixth branch, on Upper Street in Islington. Russell Gooden will lead the team as Sales Manager, with Ashley Mitson in charge of Lettings. iad UK Self-employed estate agency platform iad UK has made a significant move into the Scottish market – attracting “around 40” brokers from Keller Williams to established its first major presence north of the border. Led by Cumbernauld-based estate agent Stephen Pye, the former KW and now iad team covers Glasgow, Edinburgh and a number of regional markets. Property Vision Former Country Life columnist and founder of Redbook Sandy Mitchell has joined Property Vision as a Non-Executive Director.

73% of rent increases taken to tribunal came in below the figure the landlord proposed. We read 200 First-tier Tribunal market rent determinations to find out why. In 47% of the decisions that set out reasons, the evidence was thin, one-sided or missing. In 21%, at least one party filed nothing at all, so the panel priced the property from its own knowledge of the market instead of yours. The wait costs too: a median 96 days to decision, 142 in London, and the new rent is never backdated. Portals show asking rents. A tribunal is deciding what the property would actually let for. Swipe for the findings Read the full analysis 👉 https://lnkd.in/egvXAk6d #RentersRightsAct #Section13 #Lettings #LonRes

More Movers and Shakers (2/3) courtesy of our friends at PrimeResi Journal. View the full list here: https://lnkd.in/e-UXH37T BNP Paribas Real Estate BNP Paribas Real Estate has installed Strutt & Parker MD Gary Higgins as its interim UK chief executive, as the group kicks off the search for a permanent successor to Mark England. Higgins will combine the top job at BNP Paribas Real Estate UK with his existing role running Strutt & Parker. Nico Keller has been named Interim Head of UK Advisory alongside his existing roles as Deputy CEO and Head of Capital Markets in Germany. Featherstone Leigh Independent London estate agency Featherstone Leigh has been acquired by long-standing Directors, Brendan Wynne and Fraser Allen. All offices are being consolidated into a single “hub” in Richmond. The current team remains “intact and unaffected” by the changes, and Featherstone Leigh will continue to serve the same geography as before. Winkworth Winkworth has named Jack Spellman as its Franchise Operations Lead. Spellman joins the Plc after a three-year stint as Lettings Director at Lomond-owned John Shepherd. He previously spent over a decade at Galliard subsidiary LiFE Residential. Harding Green Olivia Highwood has joined broker-model estate agency Harding Green as Lettings Operations Director, having spent the last seven years with Central London specialist LCP Private Office. Strutt & Parker Strutt & Parker has installed a new research chief: Jason Beedell has stepped up as Head of Residential and Rural Research, having joined the agency from Smiths Gore in 2016 and is a leading commentator on rural property, agriculture, and land use policy. At the same time, BNP Paribas Real Estate, which owns S&P, has named Rebecca Shafran Head of Commercial Research.

You are not outranked. You are invisible. When a buyer asks ChatGPT for a three-bedroom house near a good school in SW6, it returns a shortlist of thre, not a page of ten thousand. If your listings aren't legible to those platforms, you are not further down the results. You are absent from them. 75% of responding property professionals told us they already use AI every day. Rightmove launched a ChatGPT app and beta conversational search in February 2026. The direction of travel is not really in question. AI Boost feeds structured data on your visible listings to the AI platforms, so the models can find, understand and recommend them. Off-market stock stays protected. It's free for LonRes members. 👉 Turn on AI Boost https://lnkd.in/e_57AWr2 #AIPropertySearch #PrimeCentralLondon #EstateAgents #PropTech #LonRes

Our first Movers and Shakers post (1/3) courtesy of our friends at PrimeResi Journal. View the full list here: https://lnkd.in/e-UXH37T Savills Savills is combining two of its most high-profile prime resi operations: Knightsbridge sales and lettings teams are relocating to the flagship Sloane Street office, creating what the agency described as “a consolidated prime central London residential sales and lettings team.” Savills has recruited former Jackson-Stops agent Samantha Holmes to bolster its resi sales team covering Suffolk. Holmes is on board as associate director in the Ipswich office. Cluttons Cluttons’ well-known research director, Gráinne Gilmore, is taking charge of the firm’s entire resi business, as Head of Residential Sector. Gilmore joined Cluttons four years ago as Director of Research & Insights, having previously been Head of Research at Zoopla, Head of UK Residential Research at Knight Frank, and before that a financial and economics journalist at The Times for 11 years. Knight Frank Knight Frank has appointed former CBRE senior director Mike Knowles as Head of Lettings Business Development, as part of a wider rejig of its lettings business. The newly created board-level role brings together the firm’s Lettings Completion Solutions, Relocation and Corporate Services, and Short Lets functions under a single leadership structure. Knight Frank has recruited a new Partner to its head office planning team, bringing in David Churchill to bolster the strategic land and development advisory offering for clients across the UK. Churchill was previously a partner with Carter Jonas, and before that worked for Icon Projects. Knight Frank has appointed its MENA marketing chief, Rebecca Wilson, as Head of Brand, Content & Experiences. Wilson will relocate to the property consultancy’s London HQ in September.

An opinion can be disputed. Achieved rents cannot. When you set a rent, you are the source. Your figure is an assessment, considered, experienced, and entirely arguable by the other side. That is the weak point in the position, and it has nothing to do with how good you are at the job. The LonRes Rental Checker is independent: robust, impartial evidence of market rent, built from lettings that actually completed rather than from a view of the property. Where a review reaches the First-tier Property Tribunal, that data is used to justify the increase. You stop being the source and start citing one. 👉 Book a demo https://lnkd.in/eg2FhDNZ #PrimeCentralLondon #LettingAgents #RentReview #PropertyData #LonRes

Your next buyer isn't scrolling a portal. They're asking ChatGPT. And when they do, one of two things happens: your property appears – or, as far as the AI is concerned, it doesn't exist. 75% of the property professionals we polled use AI daily. In the US, 82% of consumers already turn to AI for housing-market information – and the UK closes that kind of gap quickly. Buyers have stopped typing "2 bed flat Battersea". They ask for a two-bed in Battersea, third floor or above, river view, up to a million – and the AI hands them a shortlist of three, not a hundred results. If your listings aren't legible to the models, you're not outranked. You're invisible. Swipe through for the shift in five pages 👇 – then read the full piece: why structured data is the new SEO, where Knight Frank's Chelsea Whelan says the human still wins, and what stays private when AI enters the picture. READ THE FULL ARTICLE 👉 https://lnkd.in/enXY9_Hr #PrimeCentralLondon #AISearch #PropTech #EstateAgents #LonRes

Our final Movers and Shakers post (3/3) courtesy of our friends at PrimeResi Journal. View the full list here:https://lnkd.in/ePsbtaWG Fine & Country Fine & Country has agreed a new license for the brand, covering the Stockport and Saddleworth patch around Greater Manchester and Cheshire. James Diggins is in charge, having run his own agency – called Love Homes – for the last decade. Cluttons Cluttons has drafted in veteran exec Stewart Cantley to lead its board. Cantley has held a variety of senior leadership positions during his career, including chairman and chief executive roles at Taylor Hopkinson and Dycem. Lomond Acquisitive estate agency group Lomond has appointed Paul Geddes as its new Group Chief Executive Officer, to take over from current CEO Ed Phillips in September. Geddes has held five CEO positions in the last 18 years, most recently running wealth management firm Evelyn Partners. house. Partnership Specialist prime country property agency house.Partnership has hired Savills and Knight Frank alumna Tessa Teichmann to its lettings team, as Regional Partner covering Hampshire, Farnham and surrounding villages. Harding Green The former head of Marsh & Parsons’ Notting Hill operation, Gareth Kelly, has signed to self-employed property brokerage Harding Green. Moveli Upper-end property brokerage Moveli has added three new faces to its team: former Strutt & Parker sales head Andy H.; West End veteran Trevor Banbury, and, in Bristol, former Knight Frank Land & New Homes Manager Tori Le Masurier. Alliance of Independent Buying Agents A panel of established independent buying agents have launched an invitation-only network to champion the sector. The Alliance of Independent Buying Agents (AIBA) has been set up by Jason Corbett, Louise Crichton, Victoria Robinson and Lucy Winfield.

More Movers and Shakers (2/3) courtesy of our friends at PrimeResi Journal. View the full list here: https://lnkd.in/ePsbtaWG Key Privé High-profile property agent and social media influencer Siân-Louise Tangney has launched a new venture targeting the prime and super-prime residential market. Described as a “modern private office”, Key Privé handles in sales, acquisitions, lettings and concierge services across London and internationally. Tangney formerly worked for big-brand London agencies including Knight Frank, D&G and UK Sotheby’s International Realty. Russell Simpson Longstanding London estate agency Russell Simpson has recruited Luke Tye to its lettings operation covering Mayfair and Marylebone. Tye was previously Head of Lettings at Clifton Property Partners, and before that worked with Sotheby’s International Realty and Wetherell. Lawsons & Daughters SW London estate agency Lawsons & Daughters has hired Paul Cook as Head of Sales (from Garton & Jones), and Anthony Wozniak, MARLA as Head of Lettings (having previously run his own agency and been interim Managing Director of Moretons). Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward has recruited Suzi Robertson to oversee its lettings operation across North and Central London. Robertson spent the majority of a 23-year career so far with Foxtons. Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward has also hired former Foxtons Area Director Chris Constantinou, as an MD to oversee the sales operation across North and Central London. Chestertons Chestertons has promoted longstanding director Katinka Hill to Head of Lettings. Hill joined the firm in 2007. Former lettings boss Adam Jennings recently took on the Head of Residential role at the Campions Group agency, overseeing both sales and lettings divisions. Dexters Dexters has acquired 31-year-old new-build focused agency Fraser & Co, adding four offices in London and one in Hong Kong to its network. The deal adds 30 more staff to Dexters c.2,400 headcount, working across more than 180 offices across London. Anderson Rose London estate agency Anderson Rose has “revamped” its PCL team following the departure of Director Scott Joseph to Sothebys International Realty. An internal restructure at AR sees Fin Chesterman promoted to Head of Prime Central London, with Archie Edward Gillies joining him from the Tower Bridge office.

Our first Movers and Shakers post (1/3) courtesy of our friends at PrimeResi Journal. View the full list here: https://lnkd.in/ePsbtaWG Knight Frank Savills’ former Head of London Residential, Liza-Jane Kelly, is moving to Knight Frank, where she will take over as Head of London Residential Sales from future Chair Rory Penn. Kelly will officially join KF as a Proprietary Partner in September. Tim Robinson has been elected to lead Knight Frank’s UK business, taking over from Stephen Clifton as UK Managing Partner next Spring. Robinson has been with the firm for more than 30 years, most recently as Head of Commercial. Knight Frank has named its first affiliate brokers as it looks to roll out the model across London. Simon B., Mark Lee and Mark Ruffell are now fully operational as self-employed brokers under the Knight Frank banner. They work independently while remaining “fully aligned and partnered” with the firm, and cover patches adjacent to its existing London offices. All three were previously KF employees. Knight Frank has added Francesca Levy to its super-prime lettings team, to cover South West London and the Home Counties. Levy has been with the agency for more than 15 years, most recently running lettings across Wandsworth, Fulham and Dulwich. Strutt & Parker Strutt & Parker has added to its recently-launched broker team in Prime London, signing veteran John D Wood agent Hamish Gilfeather as Senior Associate Director. Gilfeather spent 20 years working out of JDW’s Primrose Hill office. Strutt & Parker has also recruited former Knight Frank partner Louise Glanville to lead a push into England’s prime cathedral city markets. Glanville, who previously led KF’s Exeter operation, joins in the newly-created role of Head of National Town and City Markets. DDRE Global Luxury brokerage DDRE Global has added four new Residential Advisors to its London-based ranks: Persephone Rose, Ross Parker, Heléna Barnett-Lonergan, and former Knight Frank/Foxtons agent Tommy Moore.