AWARDS PROPERTY VALLEY


THAMES


MANAGING AGENT OF THE YEAR WINNER – SENNEN PROPERTY MANAGEMENT


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Based in Camberley and now opening a London office, Sennen Property Management was highlighted by the judges as “a firm offering a fresh approach to the residential block and estate management sector.”


So what’s the fresh approach?


“We provide property management for the modern world, using 21st century technology to serve 21st century customers,” explained Sennen director Andy Everett.


Fellow director Tony Collins explained: “By putting all our management systems in the cloud, we can take our service directly to the development, spend more time there being proactive or reactive as required, and be far more customer-facing than other managing agents. We think that if you are managing a property you should be at the property managing it, not sitting in an office.


Property management is key, and having the right managing agent can make the difference between a building proving successful for a lessor, or not. The managing agent, appointed by the freeholder of a property or a management company, is often the ‘glue’ between the owner and tenant.


Recommended for TVPA recognition


This award was based on testimonials and case studies. The winner was announced on the night by Jeremy Wilson, regional managing director at Jelf, the insurance, employee benefits and financial planning experts.


“We are actually using modern technology to provide a traditional service, in that we are meeting customers personally face-to-face,” he pointed out.


“We are a young company, but we have a lot of background experience, having been in the business over 15 years. We simply decided to set up Sennen without the traditional baggage, to start afresh in the way that people today want to be managed.”


What does this award mean to you?


“We believe we are doing something a little bit different, and this award endorses that – but also that it’s massively right,” said Everett.


YOUNG PROPERTY PROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR WINNER – HEATHER HARVEY-WOOD


This new TVPA category recognised up-and-coming talent and expertise in the sector.


The three finalists were:


• Gemma Care of Barton Willmore – a key Thames Valley office member, now working on some major projects such as Royal Elm Park.


• Lewis Djemal of Clifton Ingram – a talented lawyer who has progressed from being on work experience to senior associate.


• Heather Harvey-Wood of Cushman & Wakefield – highly active in the Thames Valley property community, and a go-to person in the industrial and logistics leasing and development sector.


A strong category entry for the judges to assess, the winner was announced by Belinda Blasdale of sponsor Peter Brett Associates.


Harvey-Woods’s achievements


Early last year, the lead partner in Cushman & Wakefield’s regional office was affected by illness and unable to work long-term. Harvey- Wood, an associate, assumed responsibility for the remaining team of four, motivating them and working long hours to ensure that no clients were adversely affected. She was also personally responsible for letting over 300,000 sq ft of property.


The winner’s reaction “I didn’t know I had been put forward for this award until a few weeks


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ago. I was pretty chuffed to have been nominated, and now very happy to have won.”


Harvey-Wood joined C&W in the 2008 recession during the property market crash. “It gave me a really good grounding. It‘s the down cycles in which you really learn a lot very quickly, how to adapt to survive, to back yourself, your colleagues and most importantly make clients happy and earn money.”


She used that knowledge when her boss was suddenly taken ill. “It was a challenging year. I couldn’t have done it without the training and things I had learned from my boss, and I was also very lucky to have the support of a great team around me.”


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