Apollo said mulling bid for Countrywide (Reuters.co.uk) (Property)
Apollo said mulling bid for Countrywide (Reuters.co.uk)
LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. private equity firm Apollo Management is considering launching a bid for estate agency Countrywide for more than 1 billion pounds in the next few days, the Financial Times said.
80 buyers for every sale: welcome to the property bun fight (Guardian Unlimited)
The cherished topic of middle-class dinner parties is taking on the characteristics of a gold rush in London.
Apollo said mulling bid for Countrywide (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance)
U.S. private equity firm Apollo Management is considering launching a bid for estate agency Countrywide for more than 1 billion pounds in the next few days, the Financial Times said.
Estate agents compete with each over (Newham Recorder)
ESTATE agents are competing with each other in a race for properties as the market demand outstrips the supply for homes in Newham. The property market in Newham has boomed since London was awarded the 2012 Olympic Games to be held in the borough, writes NICK JURY.
80 buyers for every sale: welcome to the property bun fight (Guardian Unlimited)
When she moved from Berlin with her partner in the autumn, Jennifer Burns was pregnant and anxious to buy - two bedrooms, maybe a garden, west London, around 500,000. Today, after four months, 50 viewings, four serious contenders and two bidding wars, she is the mother of a 10-week-old, still renting, and, she says, “very, very jaded”.
American Firm Eyes Up Estate Agents (Sky News via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance)
American buy-out firm Apollo is reported to be thinking of making a 950m bid for the UK’s largest estate agency chain, Countrywide. The news comes just weeks after a management buy-out backed by investment group 3i was rejected by shareholders.
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