Knight Frank appoints new lettings head in Richmond office

Knight Frank’s Richmond residential porperty team has welcomed Ivanka Modesteva-Gyurova to the team as a head of Lettings.

Modesteva-Gyurova began her career at Foxtons Richmond in 2007, where she spent 12 years. She went on to work for John D Wood and most recent role was senior lettings director at Stirling Ackroyd.

In her new role, Modesteva-Gyurova will run Knight Frank’s lettings office in Richmond and will be tasked with leading the team and continuing to build market share in the area.

Modesteva-Gyurova said: “As an experienced estate agent with a proven track record of success, I have dedicated over a decade to providing exceptional service to clients in the Richmond area.

“Having sharpened my skills in central London over the past five years, I am thrilled to bring my expertise back to my roots in Richmond. With a deep understanding of the local market both professionally and personally, I am excited to reconnect with Richmond landlords and build on these relationships, offering them my continued service and support.”

Mel Constantinou, regional partner at Knight Frank, commented: “We are delighted to welcome Ivanka to Knight Frank and our team in Richmond. Ivanka not only has 17 years of experience within the industry, she also has 12 years of invaluable knowledge and experience in the Richmond market, which will be instrumental to our continued growth and success.”

Former Hamptons director joins Moveli 

Philip Knight, ex Hamptons director of 18 years joins Moveli, the self-employed broker model.

Philip Knight who previously worked for just over 18 years with Hamptons covering Caterham and the surrounding area has joined Moveli.

Moveli is a fast growing brokerage model that operates in high value areas, mainly in London, the South East and South West. The company has been running over six years and according to their website, the average experience of their agents is over 16 years.

The co-founder of Moveli, Ben Littlewood, commented: “We are building a sort of Savills/Knight Frank/Hamptons 2.0 in the self-employed broker space.

“With all the advantages that brings to both the client and the agent. Our growth is in experienced agents, operating in higher value areas that reinforces our brand as the upper-market brokerage.”

PropCall introduces new head of people role

Out-of-hours property management service, PropCall, has introduced a new senior role.

Former customer service manager, Kevin Carlton-Jones, has been promoted to head of people, looking after recruitment, onboarding, learning and development, HR and office management, as well as staff incentives and wellbeing.

To help him progress down his new pathway and strengthen the company’s people framework, Carlton-Jones is now studying for a CIPD level 5 qualification.

He said: “I joined PropCall in August 2023, after a number of years as operations manager at a larger business within a different sector.

“It was great to start fresh in an exciting business that had clearly experienced a lot of growth in the previous year, and it was the promise of further growth that really interested me. It wasn’t long before I was able to demonstrate my wider skillset and experience within people management, as a lot of this kind of work was being outsourced to a specialist HR partner. Now, I am almost always busy, but I thrive on that!

“In time, the department will grow and specialists in each area will be recruited, with a big focus on developing our existing colleagues to fill roles where possible. We are working hard to build up our staff offering and put succession plans in place – it’s a really exciting time for PropCall.”

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