Private Finance has launched a Mayfair-based broker team focused on people with million pound properties. The company said the move is in response to the high volume of enquiries it has received for specialist funding in Central London.

Jonathan Harris, formerly of Savills Private Finance, will lead the brokerage alongside Tim Nye, a founding member of Knight Frank Finance. They will be joined in September by Adrian Anderson from Savills. The brokerage will manage Private Finance’s exclusive relationship with Strutt & Parker and Jackson-Stops & Staff, as well as other introducing sources.

Simon Checkley, managing director of Private Finance, said: ‘The prime Central London market continues to be buoyant and it became clear that there was desperate need for a highly-focused team based in the West End to look after our estate agency partners Strutt & Parker and Jackson-Stops & Staff, as well as other introducer sources.””