9 December 2025
Knight Frank appoints new senior partner and group chair
Global property consultancy Knight Frank has announced that Rory Penn will succeed William Beardmore-Gray as the firm’s senior partner and group chair in April 2027.
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9 December 2025Colliers welcomes back office agency expert in Birmingham
Colliers’ national offices team has hired Molly Cook to its team in Birmingham as an associate director, rejoining the firm from Bruntwood.
9 December 2025GCW promotes Jack Suiter
Property consultancy GCW has promoted Jack Suiter to senior surveyor.
9 December 2025The receipts and expenditure business rates reckoning
The 2026 draft local rating lists have landed, and one thing is already clear: the receipts and expenditure method, once a niche valuation approach used only for a handful of specialist assets, is now one of the most consequential forces in the business rates system. For many properties, it has become the driver of the biggest increases in rateable values ever seen.
8 December 2025Investec appoints head of capital raising for real estate equity platform
Investec Bank, the international financial services provider, has appointed Joe Armstrong as head of capital raising for its real estate equity platform REALIS, effective immediately.
8 December 2025Graham + Sibbald head of residential passes on the baton
Graham Tonner, Head of Residential, has announced his retirement from Graham + Sibbald after 26 years with the business.
5 December 2025Architect Frank Gehry remembered for buildings ‘that elevated the human spirit’
Architect Frank Gehry is remembered for an ability that won him worldwide acclaim for designing buildings that appear to defy gravity, with extreme curves and walls so steeply angled they seem to be falling over.
5 December 2025Cushman & Wakefield appoints Paulo Sarmento as Head of Portugal
Paulo Sarmento has been appointed to lead Cushman & Wakefield Portugal from the new year.
5 December 2025The Building Safety Act's impact on mixed-use development
In response to the Grenfell tragedy the Building Safety Act 2022 introduced sweeping reforms to improve the safety of people living in multi-occupancy buildings. Obligations to remediate historic building safety risks, a new gateway regime to control construction and refurbishment and a stringent duty-holder regime for the management of higher risk buildings are now mandated priorities for anyone involved in the development, ownership or management of residential property.
3 December 2025URW names Kathleen Verelst as chief investment officer
The Supervisory Board of Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield has appointed Kathleen Verelst as chief investment officer with effect from January 1. She will also become a member of the management board.
3 December 2025Cushman hires North West logistics and industrial team lead
Cushman and Wakefield has appointed James Lewis as a partner in its national logistics and industrial team, joining on 8 December.
3 December 2025LaSalle Investment Management shakes up global leadership
LaSalle Investment Management, the global investment management business of real estate services firm JLL, is making a change at the top, with Brad Gries promoted to global chief executive and Tim Kessler to president.
3 December 2025Alder King hires partner; RLAM names head of development; Edge bolsters leadership team
Alder King hires leading adviser in Bristol
3 December 2025Rapleys recruits trio for Cardiff building surveying launch
Rapleys has increased its presence in Cardiff with a building surveying team comprising Richard Frost as partner, Jack Rowe as associate partner and Rhys Davies as associate. The trio joins from Avison Young.
2 December 2025Farebrother expands with partner appointment
London adviser Farebrother has appointed Tom Brammeld, formerly of JLL, as a partner. He will join in January 2026.
2 December 2025Vastint UK hires former Battersea leasing lead as head of portfolio
Vastint UK has appointed Dan Westley to the role of head of portfolio UK, succeeding Michael Cronin who leaves after 14 years.- 2 December 2025
Cushman & Wakefield recruits Knight Frank retail expert
Cushman & Wakefield has added to its national retail team by hiring Mike Bumford from Knight Frank as a partner. 
2 December 2025Former Newmark industrial agent lands development role at IM Properties
IM Properties has bolstered its commercial development team with the appointment of Daniel Rudd as development manager.
2 December 2025Leading UK retail and leisure adviser Justin Taylor dies
Justin Taylor, one of the best-known and regarded UK retail and leisure advisers, has died.
