‘Skin in the game’: Network members buy business 22 January 2021 A New South Wales franchise network has been purchased by a group of its members, with a number of high-profile corporate representatives and agency principals now named as owners. Team members working within and under the Laing+Simmons Corporation have agreed to purchase the company from its current owner, Dexar Group, for an undisclosed sum. The New South Wales-based boutique real estate franchise’s managing director, Leanne Pilkington, and long-serving principals D’Leanne Lewis, Ray Fayad and Nicholas Efrossynis are among the 15-strong shareholders of the new business’s ownership structure.