Foxtons replaces finance chief as it warns of weak London property market

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* Richard Harris named new CFO

* Sales volumes at record low levels in Q1

* Co says Brexit uncertainty hurting consumer confidence

* Says market conditions remained challenging in April too

By Pushkala Aripaka and Tanishaa Nadkar

May 20 (Reuters) - Real estate agent Foxtons Group Plc announced the departure of Chief Financial Officer Mark Berry on Monday as it said UK property sales were running at record lows due to the impact of Brexit on consumer confidence.

The company, which has been struggling with stiff competition from nimble, low-cost operations like Purple Bricks , named former Marks & Spencer and Laird plc executive Richard Harris, as its new chief financial officer, replacing Berry.

Shares in Foxtons, which focuses on the London market, fell 6% on Monday in light trading, after climbing 11% this year.

The shake-up comes months after one of Britain's best-known property names scrapped its dividend for 2018 and reported a fall in core earnings, hurt by weaker sales and higher costs in a tough market.

Shares in the company lost more than a third of their value last year and Foxtons said on Monday that, while the first quarter was in line with expectations, revenue had fallen and it had seen no change in trading patterns in April.

"Conditions in the London property market remain very challenging," the company said in a trading update.

"Sales volumes continue to be at record low levels and ongoing Brexit uncertainty is impacting consumer confidence."

Foxtons did not specify why Berry was leaving the company but said it was by "mutual agreement". He will be stepping down at the end of July, after two and a half years in the role.

The company, founded in Notting Hill as a two-person agency in 1981, has a market capitalisation of 166 million pounds ($212 million).

London's long-bullish property market has been sluggish in many areas over the past year due to the uncertainty generated by Britain's decision to leave the European Union and a rise in stamp duty property tax.

The company said it was in a strong financial position, with net cash of around 15 million pounds at the end of the quarter, while its largest letting business had performed ahead of its expectations.

Group revenue dipped to 23.8 million pounds for the quarter ended March 31, compared with 24.5 million pounds a year earlier.

($1 = 0.7848 pounds) (Reporting by Tanishaa Nadkar and Pushkala Aripaka in Bengaluru; editing by Patrick Graham and Susan Fenton)