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Deverell Smith Executive Breakfast Forum - 23rd May 2013
13/05/2013 “Are managing agents ready and equipped to deal with the challenges presented by the new age of modern, mixed-use developments?” On the 23rd May Deverell Smith will be...
Deverell Smith Executive Breakfast Forum 23rd May
13/05/2013 “Are managing agents ready and equipped to deal with the challenges presented by the new age of modern, mixed-use developments?” On the 23rd May Deverell Smith will...
Deverell Smith welcomes the recent news regarding regulation of lettings agents
14/03/2013 On March 6, 211 peers backed the amendment to the enterprise and regulatory reform bill, which would ensure that all lettings agents are to sign up to a redress scheme...
BUPA 10k run in aid of Save the Children
14/03/2013 On 27 May 2013, DSR’s Arta, Victoria, Harriet, Alex, Jess and Mike will be running the Bupa London 10,000. The six consultants took the initiative to raise sponsorship...
Jemima Sloggett promoted from Resourcer to Consultant on the secretarial support team.
13/03/2013 We are delighted to announce that our Secretarial & Support division’s team resourcer, Jemima Sloggett, has recently been promoted to a Consultant position...
The property market is still climbing
13/03/2013 London and the South East property market continue to perform at much better levels than the rest of the country. However, some commentators are now starting to question...
The Negotiator Awards 2012
13/11/2012 Leading lights of the residential property industry got together on the evening of October 24th to share in each other’s successes of the past twelve months at a gala...
RESI 2012 a veritable feast for residential property experts
17/09/2012 This year’s RESI took place on the 13th and 14th of September and was a hotbed of ideas and innovation. Andrew Deverell Smith, Managing Director of Deverell...
Sociable Surveyors’ Awards
01/08/2012 2012 really has been brim full of celebrations, with the global spotlight turning on Britain time and again. The Diamond Jubilee, our fantastic victory in the Tour de...
2012 Salary Survey - Have your Say & win an IPAD
08/07/2012 Leading property recruitment specialist Deverell Smith Recruitment has launched its second Key Attraction Survey as it bids to pull together a comprehensive guide to...
Up and coming Graduate Schemes
07/07/2012 There is no doubt that the current economic climate is providing very limited employment opportunities for young people. This is true across the board...
Top temps top ‘trip’
03/07/2012   Carly Wardley and Censa Caird of our New Homes Team at Deverell Smith visited three of their top temps on Thursday 14th June, and stepped into a whole new world...
Party at the Tower
03/07/2012 Charlotte Murdoch the Managing Consultant of Facilities Management here at Deverell Smith had the fantastic opportunity to attend “Party at the Tower” welcomed by...
2012 Olympics Challenges & Opportunities for the property Industry
26/06/2012
Powering future development
14/06/2012   Battersea Power Station is the largest brick building in Europe, and generated vast amounts of electricity for London from its creation in the 1930s until its closure...
Winner of the Best Recruitment Agency Awards 2012
12/06/2012 Deverell Smith continues to go from strength to strength, and we are very pleased to announce that on 1st May, Deverell Smith Recruitment was selected as the proud winner...
RESI Awards 2012
08/06/2012 Deverell Smith Recruitment was delighted to sponsor the very first RESI awards ceremony, which took place recently at the prestigious Intercontinental Park Lane Hotel...
Deverell Smith puts together a winning team in facing up to the Olympic challenge
06/06/2012   Triumph, tears, delight and disaster – we can all anticipate what the London Summer Olympics will bring in the stadium, the diving pool and all the other arenas...
Deverell Smith Olympics Debate - 31st May
24/04/2012 For 19 days this summer, the eyes of the world will be on London as the city plays host to the greatest sporting event on earth, with 10...
MIPIM 2012
27/02/2012 Team Deverell Smith returned from MIPIM this week full of enthusiasm and tales of new business, new clients and an overall positive outlook for the second quarter of...
Deverell Smith Recruitment, has appointed Charlotte Murdoch to the position of managing consultant.
23/01/2012 Leading property recruitment specialist, Deverell Smith Recruitment, has appointed Charlotte Murdoch to the position of managing consultant...
Deverell Smith Recruitment Promotes Fergus Pryor To Head Up Land And Development Team
17/10/2011 Fergus Pryor from leading property recruitment specialist, Deverell Smith Recruitment has been promoted to Head of Land and Development at the company...
Deverell Smith Recruitment Moves to New West End Office
17/10/2011 Deverell Smith Recruitment Moves to New West End Office Leading property specialist, Deverell Smith Recruitment has moved from its existing offices on Great Portland...
Free Tickets to Tomorrow's Estate Agency Conference
26/09/2011 Deverell Smith Recruitment is delighted to announce we will be sponsoring the Annual Property Drum conference tomorrow. We will be attending the event along with a...
Deverell Smith Graduate Training Programme
23/09/2011 Deverell Smith Recruitment is launching a New Graduate Training scheme 'Insight into Agency', which will be hosted in conjunction with leading London estate agencies...
Agency Worker Regulations
08/09/2011 On 1st October 2011 the Agency Worker Regulations come into effect. The consequences for non-compliance by agencies can be quite significant but unlike other Agency...
Are you happy? How happy? Are you happier than you were yesterday?
26/07/2011 Questions such as these are being asked more and more frequently at the moment, as pollsters and statisticians seek to gather information for the government’s...
Mishcon de Reya & Deverell Smith Recruitment Present Data Theft & Covenant Breach.
14/07/2011 On the morning of July 13th, we held our second Executive Breakfast Forum of the year, on the subject of employee data theft and covenant breach...
The CV is an incredibly powerful tool when used effectively and correctly
06/06/2011 The CV is an incredibly powerful tool when used effectively and correctly – despite just being words on a page, a CV can open doors and create fantastic opportunities...
We are pleased to announce Emma Timothy has recently been promoted to Associate Director
19/05/2011 We are pleased to announce that Emma Timothy, who has been with DSR since November 2006, has recently been promoted to Associate Director...
The Power of the Web vs The Power of the Window
27/04/2011 In recent years, property hunting techniques have changed dramatically with the responsibility of finding a home shifting from agents to buyers...
Three Girls, Three Peaks – 24 hours!
26/04/2011 This June, Emma, Jessica and Camilla at Deverell Smith Recruitment plan to climb the UK’s three tallest mountains within 24 hours. The day will start at 5pm at the...
Our Clients are Breaking records !
18/04/2011 Our clients report an extraordinary rush to beat the stamp duty deadline and report billions of pounds being pumped in to the property industry...
DSR successfully completes an Exec Search for a global Head of Sales and Marketing
29/03/2011 DSR successfully completes an Exec Search for a global Head of Sales and Marketing for one of the UK’s most successful development companies...
Positive times for Estate Agents
28/03/2011 This week the National Association of Estate Agent’s (NAEA) market report for February shows a year-on-year rise of 25 per cent in the level of available housing stock...
New addition to the ever expanding Property Management Team
22/03/2011 Deverell Smith Recruitment is delighted to welcome another addition to their ever expanding property management team Having just moved back from Germany where he...
Deverell Smith Recruitment Welcomes Roddy Sweetingham to the Executive Search Team
15/03/2011 Deverell Smith Recruitment is delighted to welcome their latest addition to the ever-growing team, Roddy Sweetingham. Roddy joins us as a Senior Researcher on the...
DSR welcomes James our resident North & NW London Estate Agency Specialist
15/03/2011 Deverell Smith Recruitment would like to offer a warm welcome to James Bradshaw who has recently joined our Estate Agency team specialising in the North and North West...
Emma Timothy and Chris Smith of Deverell Smith Recruitment attended the annual ARLA conference
07/03/2011 Emma Timothy and Chris Smith of Deverell Smith Recruitment attended the annual ARLA conference this week. “We had a really good day and saw lots of our clients there...
Exciting Director Level Opportunity with internet based venture
07/03/2011 A massively exciting opportunity has arisen for an exceptional and accomplished candidate to join the team of an exciting new property-related, internet based venture...
Affluent country or market town Estate Agents – heading to London…
25/01/2011 Unfortunately Estate Agents have a pretty bad reputation, and often for good reason.  To use a bit of a cliché, one bad apple spoils the cart...
New Year... New start? - New Job !
11/01/2011 Many people are lucky enough to enjoy a long break over the Christmas period and whilst digesting turkey and mince pies, start to mull over their New Year’s Resolutions...
Deverell Smith Recruitment Executive Breakfast Forum Wednesday 26th January
10/01/2011 DSR Executive Forum Talent Management – Can proactive management of talent benefit the bottom line?   Wednesday 26th January 2011 – 8...
First time buyers show on Wednesday 20th October
28/10/2010 First Time Buyer Home Show, a free-to-attend exhibition catering for all the needs of first time buyers is launching in London in October...
London luxury property market rents continue to rise
28/10/2010 Rents in London’s prime residential market have risen 16% since their recessionary low in June 2009, according to the Knight Frank Prime Central London Rental Index...
Executive Breakfast Forum
28/10/2010 Deverell Smith Recruitment is hosting an Executive Breakfast Forum for Directors and Senior Managers of property sector businesses on Friday 5th November at 8...
Government cuts: what will the true cost be?
27/10/2010 The chancellor George Osborne has embarked on an ambitious and wide ranging austerity campaign aimed at slashing £81bn from public spending over the next four...
Rise in asking prices this October
27/10/2010 Property website, Rightmove, has reported a rise in asking prices in October – after three months of falls. According to the website...
Deverell Smith newsletter October 2010
27/10/2010 Deverell Smith Recruitment has had an incredibly busy 2010 and we are fast becoming one of the UK’s leading specialist property recruitment firms...
Millionaire mansions double as house prices fall
27/10/2010 Interesting article in today’s Daily Telegraph by Personal Finance Editor Ian Cowie. The piece quotes a survey by the Halifax which says that while ordinary mortals’...
CHILEAN MINERS RESCUE – LESSONS FOR FMS SAYS BIFM CHIEF
14/10/2010 A global audience of billions watched on their televisions well into the early hours of this morning as the last of the 33 miners surfaced from their would-be tomb after...
Mainland investors snap up HK property - FT
14/10/2010 According to the Financial Times, mainland investors are snapping up property in Hong Kong, an area in which Deverell Smith Recruitment is getting more and more involved...
Prunella Milligan wins recruitment award
14/10/2010 RMS Training has congratulated Prunella Milligan on winning the Deverell Smith Recruitment Award, for the most revenue generated from new vacancies during the Induction...
The number of overall job vacancies grew last month, but at the slowest rate in almost a year
06/10/2010 The number of overall job vacancies grew last month, but at the slowest rate in almost a year, a survey by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) suggests...
Jones Lang LaSalle Indian division expanded their portfolio
06/10/2010 According to India Infoline, Jones Lang LaSalle Indian Integrated Facility Management and Property and Asset Management divisions have expanded their portfolio of area...
BIFM Total Workplace Management event
01/10/2010 Deverell Smith Recruitment will be attending next week's BIFM Total Workplace Management event at London’s Olympia. This event brings together market leading exhibitors...
Scarlett Moore has won Negotiator of the Year Kentish Times Property Awards
27/09/2010 Prunella Milligan, one of Deverell Smith Recruitment’s consultants is delighted as Scarlett Moore, the candidate she recently placed as a Property Manager at Berkeley...
Asian markets have driven international property consultant Knight Frank’s profits up by 168%
27/09/2010 According to Property Week online, the London residential and Asian markets have driven international property consultant Knight Frank’s profits up by 168%...
Camilla Hassan Completes the Bupa great North Run for Charity
21/09/2010 Camilla Hassan, who recently joined us as a property recruitment specialist in our Facilities Management department, recently completed the 30th Bupa Great North Run in a...
Chinese investors flocking to London to buy property
21/09/2010 Very interesting piece in the New York Times about Chinese investors flocking to London to buy property. According to the article, fluency in Mandarin is an increasingly...
Jon Hunt sets up new property investment vehicle Bacchus Partners
17/09/2010 Excellent piece in last night’s Evening Standard on Foxtons founder, Jon Hunt, who has now set up a new property investment vehicle Bacchus Partners...
Kier reports 10% rise in pre tax profits
17/09/2010 Kier, the leading construction, development and service group, has reported a 10% rise in pre-tax profits according to FM World. The group said that its support services...
Estates Gazette recognises serious career prospects in residential property management
14/09/2010 Estates Gazette recognises serious career prospects in residential property management There are a growing number of graduates being attracted to a career in residential...
Lettings conference held in London
14/09/2010 If you’re involved with lettings, then you may be interested to know that a new conference is being held in London on 21st September which will focus on innovative and...
Candy brothers sell what is reputed to be the most expensive flat in history
14/09/2010 So the Candy brothers have sold what is reputed to be the most expensive flat in history – a Monaco penthouse worth £200m. We at Deverell Smith Recruitment are...
Foxtons is set to open 20 new branches
13/09/2010 According to this morning’s City AM, the estate agent Foxtons is set to open 20 new branches. Says Richard Wilson, Head of Agency at Deverell Smith Recruitment: “We’re...
Connaught housing contracts bought by Morgan Sindall
10/09/2010 It is reported in today’s press that Morgan Sindall, the leading UK construction and regeneration group, has bought the housing contracts of the troubled housing group...
Silverdoor, Europe’s largest serviced apartments specialist selects DSR as recruiter of choice
07/09/2010 Deverell Smith Recruitment has been selected as recruiter of choice for serviced apartment specialists SilverDoor. They first starting using our services in September...
Spotlight on Chiswick – Deverell Smith Recruitment very active in the area
03/09/2010 The Evening Standard Homes & Property this week wrote an article focusing on Chiswick, one of west London’s popular and sought-after areas...
DSR recruiting more relocation managers as economy moves out or recession
25/08/2010 Emma Timothy, Head of Secretarial & Support at DSR, says there is further evidence that the economy is moving out of recession as many relocation firms are starting...
Marketing manager sought for luxury European golf resort
25/08/2010 DSR has been appointed by a leading luxury European golf resort developer to recruit a marketing manager for their site in Cataluna...
DSR looking for new Head of Property for leading UK aviation company
25/08/2010 One of the country’s leading aviation companies has taken on DSR to assist them in recruiting a new Head of Property. The business, which has a multi-million property...
Trophy Homes are selling at a near-record rate
17/08/2010 So, according to Savills, ‘trophy’ homes are selling at a near-record rate, heralding a wider recovery in London's property market -http://bit...
Specialist Site Sales Staff for Luxury London Developments.
13/08/2010 Many of you will have seen the recent article in the Standard on a London penthouse flat being sold for more than £140 million as super-rich international buyers...
DSR offers rare £200k pa career opportunity in London W1
10/08/2010 Deverell Smith Recruitment is offering a very rare career opportunity in London W1 – the chance to take over and run a well-established business...
DSR performs well at King Sturge Property Triathlon 2010
10/08/2010   Two members of DSR staff performed well at the recent King Sturge Property Triathlon, held on 9th July at Eton College’s rowing centre, Dorney Lake in Windsor...
DSR partnership with leading fashion recruitment company
09/08/2010 DSR has entered into partnership with leading fashion recruitment company Poppy Brown to provide technically qualified facilities managers for the fashion industry...
New starters at Deverell Smith
02/08/2010 We have a four new members of staff starting with us this week. Fergus Prior, Martyn Durling and Thomas Grimes are all joining our Estate Agency department while Camilla...
Deverell Smith at RESI 2010
02/08/2010 Deverell Smith is proud to be the only specialist property recruitment agency supporting this year’s RESI 2010 in Newport this September...
Deverell Smith joins the social media age
02/08/2010 Welcome to the updated Deverell Smith news page. Over the coming weeks and months we will aim to update you with a range of stories pertinent to the property...
Fancy being the new face of ‘property television ?!
19/05/2010 Deverell Smith Recruitment is the exclusive recruitment consultancy appointed to find a brand new expert TV Presenter to front a major new prime time property series for...
Commonhold is a new form of tenure for flats
15/04/2010 Commonhold allows for the freehold ownership of individual units within a block of flats and the common ownership of the shared parts of the block...
Welcome Prunella
09/04/2010 DSR is pleased to announce the arrival of Prunella Milligan to the team! Prunella studied Sociology at Leeds University and, after travelling the globe and a stint...