Tag Archive: Property People

Rupert Hunt – Notable Property Persons in their own words

Rupert Hunt

My property person this week is Rupert Hunt, the founder of SpareRoom.co.uk and various other websites relating to flat sharing.  Here is his story. 1. Please introduce yourself. Say a bit about yourself and your company Hi, I’m Rupert Hunt and I’m the founder of SpareRoom.co.uk, the UK’s leading flatshare site with over 1.5 million…

Jan Hytch – Notable Property Persons in their own words

Jan Hytch

Jan Hytch MBA MNAEA MARLA, my notable property person today, is very well respected in Norfolk as a partner of local chartered surveyors firm Arnolds. Here is her story. 1. Please introduce yourself. Say a bit about yourself and your company My name is Jan Hytch and I am a Partner with Arnolds Property Consultants…

Kevin Firth – Notable Property Persons in their own words

Kevin Firth

Kevin Firth, my Notable Property Person today, is Director of the Deposit Protection Service, one of the three Government authorised tenancy deposit companies. He has been really helpful in answering questions when I have raised points put by readers of this blog, and is a very human face of a large company. So thank you…

Irene Hancock – Notable Property Persons in their own words

irene Hancock

My Notable property person this week is Irene Hancock of Executive Living. She is an experienced landlord and winner of the East of England NLA Property Women award for 2010. Here is her story. 1. Please introduce yourself. Say a bit about yourself and your company I am married with three grown up children and…

Alan Ward – Notable Property Persons in their own words

Alan Ward Chairman of the Residential Landlords Association

The Residential Landlords Association is a campaigning body and national service for landlords. This week I am delighted to have its Chairman, Alan Ward, as my Notable Property Person. 1. Please introduce yourself. Say a bit about yourself and your company I became chairman in January 2009 of the Residential Landlords Association which I helped…

Sharon Crossland – Notable Property Persons in their own words

Sharon Crossland

I first came across Sharon’s web-site Leasehold Life last year and I was very impressed. Here is her story. 1. Please introduce yourself. Say a bit about yourself and your company Hello, my name is Sharon Crossland and I am the founder of the leasehold information site, Leasehold Life. It’s a free online information resource…

Jim Overbury – Notable Property Persons in their own words

Jim Overbury of Housing Action

My Notable Property Person this week is a bit of a magician – he achieves the impossible by providing ‘voidless’ lets to landlords and quality accommodation to needy tenants.  I wrote about his company Housing Action a while back, but here is his story. 1. Please introduce yourself. Say a bit about yourself and your…