Knight Frank LLP is a multinational real estate

Real estate

In general use, esp. North American, 'real estate' is taken to mean "Property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as crops, minerals, or water; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this; an item of real property; buildings or...

 and property

Property

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 service firm founded in London in 1896. Knight Frank together with its New York-based affiliate Newmark Knight Frank

Newmark Knight Frank

Newmark Knight Frank, founded in 1929, is a large independent multinational real estate service firm headquartered in New York City. Newmark Knight Frank and London-based partner, Knight Frank, operate from over 200 offices in established and emerging property markets on six continents...

 is one of the world's leading independent global property consultancies.

It has 207 offices in 43 countries, with staff of over 6,000. The group handled over US$886 billion worth of commercial, agricultural and residential real estate in 2008-9, advising clients ranging from individual owners and buyers to major developers, investors and corporate tenants.

History

Knight Frank & Rutley is an earlier name of the firm. Sir Howard George Frank, 1st Baronet

Howard Frank

Sir Howard George Frank, 1st Baronet GBE KCB was an English estate agent and public servant.Frank was born in Blackhurst, Tunbridge Wells, Kent. He was educated at Marlborough College and then entered the estate agency profession, in which he remained all his life, eventually becoming recognised...

 was an estate agent recognised as the "head" of the profession in Britain

United Kingdom

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. He was head of the firms of Knight, Frank & Rutley of London

London

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 and Walton & Lee of Edinburgh

Edinburgh

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and was president of the Estate Agents' Institute from 1912 to 1914.