Savills
Company type | Public limited company |
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Industry | Real estate |
Founded | 1855 |
Headquarters | 33 Margaret Street, London, W1G 0JD |
Key people |
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Revenue | £2,238.0 million (2023)[1] |
£43.3 million (2023)[1] | |
£39.5 million (2023)[1] | |
Website | www.savills.co.uk |
Savills plc is a British real estate services company based in London. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
History
The business was established by
In 1997 Savills merged with First Pacific Davies (Chinese: 第一太平戴維斯) in Asia.[4] In 1998 it bought majority stakes in the German, French and Spanish arms of Weatherall, Green & Smith. In June 2015 it completed the acquisition of Smiths Gore, provider of rural and residential property services in the UK.[5] In June 2016, Savills plc announced its proprietary investment subsidiary, Grosvenor Hill Ventures, had acquired a minority stake in YOPA Property Ltd, a UK-based online hybrid estate agent.[6]
Savills announced in August 2016 that it had acquired GBR Phoenix Beard, a Midlands-based commercial property consultancy, strengthening its UK real estate services.[7] Expansion continued in July 2017, with the acquisition of Larry Smith Italia, a leading commercial management and leasing business in Italy.[8] The company's European operations grew further in December 2017 when Savills acquired Aguirre Newman S.A., the leading independent Spanish and Portuguese real estate advisory; the newly combined business was rebranded as Savills Aguirre Newman in January 2018.[9]
Operations
The company provides property consulting services from offices throughout the
See also
- Jones Lang LaSalle
- Knight Frank
- Foxtons
References
- ^ a b c "Preliminary Results 2023" (PDF). Savills. Retrieved 14 March 2024.
- ISBN 978-0953427628.
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- ^ "Title Deed". Mortgage Strategy. 24 April 2006. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
- ^ "First Pacific Davies forms alliance with top British property agent". South China Morning Post. 9 September 1997. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
- ^ "Land agent Savills buys Smiths Gore for £40m". Farmers Weekly. 22 April 2015. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
- ^ Burn-Callander, Rebecca (3 June 2016). "Savills squares up to Purplebricks by backing estate agent rival Yopa". The Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group. Retrieved 3 June 2016.
- ^ "GBR Phoenix Beard bought by global property agency". Birmingham Post. 12 August 2016. Retrieved 2016-08-12.
- ^ "Savills acquires retail experts Larry Smith Italia". PropertyEU. Retrieved 2017-07-05.
- ^ "Savilles completes acquisition of Aguirre Newman". www.property-magazine.eu. Retrieved 2018-01-11.
- ^ "Savills bolsters property management and agency businesses with opportunistic buys, new hires [article]". edgeprop.sg. 18 November 2022. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
Further reading
- Watson, John Arthur Fergus (1977). Savills: a family and a firm, 1652–1977 (1st ed.). Century Benham. ISBN 978-0091295905.
External links
- Official website
- Business data for Savills plc: