Estate Agencies

The co-founder of LonRes, William Carrington, has joined Gary Hersham’s super-prime estate agency Beauchamp Estates as Non-Executive Chairman. At the same time, finance and business pro Gerard Soames joins as a Non-Executive Director. Read more here.

Christian Lock-Necrews – formerly a senior figure at Knight Frank in Prime Central London – has taken over Winkworth’s flagship Knightsbridge, Chelsea and Belgravia franchise, as an owner/operator. Read more here.

United Kingdom Sotheby’s International Realty has confirmed a string of new hires, adding a quartet of former Knight Frankers as part of a “strategic expansion” across South West London. Sam Sproston and James Williams both move from Knight Frank to become a senior directors at UK SIR; Peter Norgrove is also now a senior director, following stints at Hamptons, Knight Frank and Savills; Alex Philo previously ran Knight Frank’s Wimbledon team. Read more here.

Knight Frank has made a series of “strategic people moves” across its Prime Central London residential sales team. Eight of the property consultancy’s key players stepped into new roles on 1st April 2025: James Pace is now a roaming “Prime & Super Prime rainmaker” across the Kensington & Chelsea; Charles Olver moves from Chelsea to become Kensington’s Head of Sales; the Chelsea and South Kensington sales teams have combined into a single “flagship” team, led by Rebecca Jane Higgins; Jordanna Mancina is now Sales Manager in Kensington, joined by Senior Negotiator Nicole Jackson; Claire Mengham is managing the Chelsea & South Kensington Core team; Rana Rizk has moved to the Notting Hill Prime & Super Prime team; Marc Collier takes a Prime & Super Prime role covering Marylebone and Hyde Park. Read more here.

In addition, Knight Frank has brought in a top-performing agent from Strutt & Parker to strengthen its super-prime lettings team. Joss Hatcher-Davis joins as a Partner, working alongside Head of Super-Prime Lettings Tom Smith. Read more here.

Knight Frank has also made a new appointment in the New Forest & Isle of Wight, bringing in Jack Newland to lead sales in the £1mn – £3mn range. Read more here.

Knightsbridge agency Nicolas Van Patrick has acquired the lettings book of longstanding PCL firm Aylesford International. Read more here.

Broker-model estate agency TAUK (AKA The Agency UK) has bought rival firm The Estate Agency for an undisclosed sum, and revealed it has “further acquisitions in the pipeline”. It’s “a strategic move to begin the consolidation of the self-employed brokerage sector in earnest,” says co-founder Andrew Vass. Read more here.

Property brokerage Harding Green has signed Foxtons’ former Operations Director and Partner Kirsty Farningham as a self-employed broker. Read more here.

Strutt & Parker has added a Surrey market expert to its National Country House Department. Jordan Sturgess joins as Senior Associate Director from Curchods’ Prime team. Read more here.

Savills has added a new associate director to its residential sales team in East London, installing former Dexters and Knight Frank agent James Martin in Shoreditch. Read more here.

Savills also recently promoted 266 of its UK staff, including 71 who step up to Director level. Read more here.

Cotswolds and Midlands-focused broker agency Chartwell Noble has signed Clemmie Daborn to its self-employed model, to cover the Shropshire area. Daborn previously worked for agencies including Balfours and Roger Parry & Partners. Read more here.

Dexters continues to expand in London, announcing two new branch openings (Surbiton and Canada Water) and the acquisition of a well-established firm in south London; James Alexander has been operating in Norbury since 1994. Read more here.

Buying Agencies & Property Management

Luxury sector veteran Anthony Lassman has returned to the property business, some 50 years after setting up an eponymous boutique estate agency in Mayfair. Lassman is expanding his Nota Bene Global brand, which originally focused on producing high-end travel guides, to provide advice on super-prime property acquisitions in selected international destinations. Read more here.

Alisa Zotimova’s boutique London property consultancy AZ Real Estate has installed James McAlhone as its new Head of Residential Sales. McAlhone previously held senior positions at Dexters and Chestertons. Read more here.

Top-end property management and concierge firm Knightsbridge has recruited a heavyweight prime resi name to its Board: Former Hamptons and Chestertons Director David Adams has joined as a Non-Exec Director. Read more here.

Marketing

Property portal Zoopla has installed a new Chief Executive Officer – re-hiring its former Strategy Director Paul Whitehead to the top job. The firm has also appointed a new Chief Finance Officer (Sam Fletcher) and Commercial Director (Alex Rose). Whitehead takes the reins from Charlie Bryant, who remains as Chief Exec of the portal’s parent company, Houseful. Read more here.

Two specialist property marketing agencies are to merge: Elevate PR was set up by Chanel Bailey in 2016; Ellwood PR is run by Founding Director Adam Foster. The two companies will “consolidate all operational aspects under a single organisation”, trading as Elevate but incorporating Ellwood branding. Current clients include Black Brick, Carter Jonas, Maskells, Anderson Rose, and St. William (part of the Berkeley Group). Read more here.

Developers & Consultancies

London-based developer Native Land has announced a wave of senior-level promotions, with six new directors joining the leadership team: Mark Campbell (Director – Residential Sales & Private Clients); Maria Gray (Director – Asset Management, Residential); Robert Harris (Development Director – Regeneration); Felicity Masefield (Director – Asset Management & ESG); Kirsty Monteith (Director – Capital Markets); Joe White (Director – Prime Residential). Read more here.

Midlands-centric investment and development firm SevenCapital has announced plans for a £1bn expansion into London’s residential property market. At the same time, former MARK exec James Moody has been installed as Chief Operating Officer, and Rebecca Thomson, previously Sales & Marketing Director at Camrose London, steps up to lead sales across the group. Read more here.

International project and cost management consultancy MGAC has named a new Executive Managing Director; Bob Pell has been recruited “to accelerate the firm’s growth across the UK and North America”. His previous roles include spells in the UK public sector and private consulting across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Read more here.

London landowner Cadogan has recruited Stuart Wetherly as its new Finance Director. He previously spent over 12 years at Capital & Regional Plc, as well as a long stint at Deloitte. Read more here.