MOVERS & SHAKERS
ACQUISITIONS
OPENINGS
LAUNCHES Who grows there?
‘If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs...’ There is still courage and growth in the property world.
SEVEN NEW OFFICES FOR BELVOIR
Belvoir Lettings has added seven new offices to its network: Belvoir Evesham, Belvoir Derby West, Belvoir Crewe and Nantwich, Belvoir Nuneaton and Hinckley, Belvoir Chelsea and Fulham, Belvoir Leeds South and Belvoir Perth. “I’d like to give a very warm
welcome to our new franchise owners,” says Belvoir’s Head of Franchise Recruitment Christopher Watkin, “The recruitment team is really pleased that these good people have joined Belvoir and we hope that they all really enjoy being part of the Belvoir family as much as we do.” The seven new launches will take the number of Belvoir offices up to 147 – with exciting plans to expand the network even further in the coming months.
Belvoir Evesham
instructor at Blackpool airport, but prior to that I spent time as a property developer,” says Richard. “And, as part of my property portfolio we had a lot of houses across Yorkshire, many of which we were managing ourselves. “With a continued interest in property, and believing lettings to be a growing market, I decided to open a lettings agency of my own. “We’re currently doing a ‘soft’ launch – we’ve opened the doors, are letting people come in, plus are getting all the systems streamlined and in place. The official launch will be in June.”
Belvoir Derby West Belvoir Chelsea and Fulham
Coates opened a Belvoir office in Perth.
“Although I’ve worked in the meat industry for about 30 years and Audrey’s background is in events organisation, the property industry isn’t completely new to us as both Audrey and I have been landlords ourselves,” says Harry. “We officially launched Belvoir
Perth during the first week of February and I am really enjoying running the business so far. In particular, I’m enjoying the variety of my role – I’m partly office based and partly out and about, plus I get to meet lots of different people. The job is just so varied.”
Belvoir Nuneaton and Hinckley
MERGERS
Clayton Foston and Dean Pratt, along with Dean’s partner, Andrea Wright, have recently celebrated the launch of Belvoir Nuneaton and Hinckley .“We launched our office on the 8th March and it’s been very exciting so far,” says Clayton. “Our launch was covered in the
local newspapers and, during the celebrations, we presented a cheque to Macmillan fund for £300, raised by Dean and Andrea who recently completed a 1000- mile hike through the Pyrenees.”
Belvoir Leeds South
Melanie Carter hopes to launch Belvoir Evesham this June. She says, “Before joining Belvoir I was a general manager of an airfield – one of the main elements of the business being motorsports, in particular drag racing,” says Melanie. “As a qualified charted surveyor I’d also worked in commercial property. I made the decision to join Belvoir as I felt that the time was right for me to go back into property – but this time it would be residential property.”
Belvoir Crewe and Nantwich Richard Irving is preparing for his official launch in mid-June; he said; “I’ve been working as a flying
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Leanne Mitchell launched Belvoir Derby West earlier this year; “My dad, Jim Mitchell, owns Belvoir Loughborough and my step-dad, Paul Collins, is the proprietor of Belvoir Lincoln so it seemed a natural progression for me to set up a Belvoir office of my own,” says Leanne.
Belvoir Perth
Early next month Duncan Crossey will be opening Belvoir’s first ever office in West London. “I started my career as a
commercial property solicitor in the City of London,” says Duncan. “While I enjoyed the combination of law and property, I progressively disliked working for a huge international firm so, in 2005, I decided to do something much more entrepreneurial – setting up and running my own small business.
“It helped people in different aspects of moving house and was a great concept until the property market started to crash in 2007 and no one moved house! “In late 2010 and started
Earlier this year Harry and Audrey
looking for the right opportunity for me, particularly involving property. The answer I came to was Belvoir Lettings”.
Mohammed Shakeel will launch his office in early June, he said; “Before investing in a Belvoir franchise I was working for a large clinical waste disposal company as a transport co-ordinator,” says Mohammed. “I decided to launch a lettings agency because I’ve been wanting to get into running a business of my own for a long time. “My official launch will be in early June and I’m very much looking forward to the independence of having a business of my own.”
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