Estate Agencies & Brokerages

Heritage estate agency Strutt & Parker has created a brokerage team to work alongside its traditional office network in prime London. The launch of this new “hybrid” venture follows a six-month run of big-name hires, which kicked off with the appointment of Claire Reynolds as UK Head of Sales in September. The broker team (all contracted S&P employees) includes Andrew Chambers, Toby Downes, Minnie Stainrod, Zach Madison, Charles Medina, Hugh Ball, Sarah James, James Diaper, and James Gow.
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James Diaper has joined Strutt & Parker’s new broker team, moving from Savills – where he spent 12 years and led the sales team in Hampstead.
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Property agency OB Private has recruited six new names, including a five-strong team from Chestertons, and launched a new brokerage platform. Charlie Cunningham-Reed, Nathaniel Hickey, Harry Pourdjis, Will Bennett and Tracy Palmer all move from Chestertons’ Notting Hill office; Mark Johnson has joined to lead Mayfair lettings, following more than seven years at Knight Frank. At the same time, OB Private has rolled out a brokerage platform designed to sit alongside its traditional fully-employed business model.
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Savills has installed Rory McMullen as co-head of its Private Office division, alongside Alex Christian. The move follows Jonathan Hewlett stepping down as Chairman of the specialist HNW team at the start of this year. Crispin Holborow remains UK Country Director of the Savills Private Office.
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Savills has named Nick Verdi as the new head of its Mayfair sales department. He has been with the firm for the last seven years, leading sales across the City of London offices.
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Savills has also appointed a new head of office in Cheshire. Ellis McQueen has stepped up, having originally joined the Knutsford office when it first opened in 2018.
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And Savills has appointed two new heads of lettings in Surrey: Helen Hudson is now in charge of Cobham lettings, having moved over from the firm’s London operation. Kieran Rigley has stepped up to lead lettings across Guildford, Farnham and the surrounding villages.
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Chestertons has appointed a new Head of Residential to oversee both sales and lettings operations. Adam Jennings has stepped up to the role after 11 years with the agency, most recently as Head of Lettings.
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Chestertons has also recruited Nick Darragh, as Sales Director for the new Wandsworth Common office (rebadged following the firm’s 2024 acquisition of James Pendleton). He was previously with Douglas & Gordon.
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Sotheby’s International Realty has recruited two top London agents to provide a “specialist cross-border partnership” for high-value transactions between the UK Middle East. Roly Ingleby-MacKenzie has signed to Abu Dhabi Sotheby’s International Realty; Fehd Alsaidi has joined UK Sotheby’s International Realty.
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Cluttons has appointed a new Head of Residential Management. Wayne Stanley has moved from Central London landlord Howard de Walden Estates, where he spent more than a decade rising to become Head of Residential Management.
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Winkworth is on the hunt for an “entrepreneurial property expert” to take over one of its key offices in Prime Central London, as a long-standing franchisee retires after 20 years. The agency describes the patch as “one of the capital’s most fashionable districts.”
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Winkworth’s Crouch End operation has been acquired by well-known North London agents Abbie Greisman and Robert Upton.
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The eponymous property brokerage founded by ex-Hamptons agent Grant J Bates has hired a new lettings boss: Antony Hughes has joined after nearly seven years at Hamptons.
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Alisa Zotimova’s boutique estate and search agency AZ Real Estate has appointed Karina Solomko as its new Head of Operations. Solomko previously managed operations for high-end wellness brand The Bath House, and formerly held positions at LEGO Group and BMW Group.
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Seven-year-old estate agency House Collective has added two new fee earners as part of its ongoing expansion strategy. Alister Shaw has joined the West London team from Hamptons (where he was in charge of Notting Hill and Queen’s Park); Paul Davis has joined the North London office, based in Primrose Hill.
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London property brokerage Harding Green has added former Marsh & Parsons director Basile Burnel to its expanding roster, to focus on central and north west London markets.
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South-West London specialist Oliver Robson has joined Harding Green as Partner, following a stint managing Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices’ sales team in Knightsbridge and Chelsea.
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Seasoned NW London agent Steven Schiller has signed to Harding Green, moving from Daniel Daggers’ DDRE Global.
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Harding Green has also signed up Jignesh Mepani as Partner. Mepani spent the last 18 years at Camerons Stiff & Co, specialising in prime North London (NW2, NW10 and NW6).
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Former Winkworth franchise owner, Edward Foley, has signed-up to upper-end self-employed property broker platform Moveli. Foley ran Winkworth’s operation in Wimbledon Village for more than 15 years until 2018, and has been a Councillor for Merton Borough Council since 2014.
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Moveli has also added Carole Bratt to its team sheet. Bratt has previously held roles including Head of Lettings Knight Frank Hampstead and Savills Harpenden, as well as 16 years within Savills’ residential division – latterly as head of residential compliance. She is now covering the area around Harpenden and St Albans as a Moveli broker.
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Simon Shinerock’s South-East-centric estate agency The Choices Group has bought the lettings arm of The Apartment Company in Bath, a well-established boutique agency in the World Heritage city, set up by by Peter Greatorex in 2004. This is Choices’ seventh acquisition, as the business looks to build “a modern, professionally structured national lettings platform.”
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Boutique estate agency Harvey Holland has expanded in the Cotswolds, opening a new headquarters in Chipping Norton. The business was set up in late 2024 and operates across the area’s key markets including Chipping Norton, Burford, Deddington. Managing Director Emma Brooks previously spent four years at Fine & Country, and has been a regular on Channel 4 series Britain’s Most Expensive Houses.
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Buying Agencies

Private client advisory firm Forbes Gilbert-Green has recruited well-known buying agent Simon Connell to bolster its PCL team. Connell has spent the last 20 years at Property Vision, becoming an equity partner in 2012.
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Naomi Heaton has returned to LCP Private Office, the property buying and investment firm she set up over 35 years ago, as Executive Chair. The entrepreneur has spent the last six years building hospitality brand The Other House – which has been acquired by a new owner.
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