Rettie has hired a director from a rival estate agency as it seeks further growth in the booming property market in Glasgow’s Southside.
Kay Blair joins Rettie from Clyde Property where she worked for more than 16 years, most recently as area director. As director of sales in the Southside, she will operate out of Rettie’s Shawlands and Newton Mearns offices, two of the agency’s five offices in Glasgow.
Working closely with commercial director Neil Cunningham, associate directors Alison Anderson, Alan Laird and Vincent Reilly, and senior negotiator Grace Sloan, Ms Blair will oversee strategic and financial performance across the Southside network where sales are consistently averaging above home report values.
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“Rettie has an ambitious growth strategy in the Southside over the next three years, where we are aiming to significantly increase our market presence and become the number one brand and selling agent,” Mr Cunningham said.
“Kay has a longstanding track record of providing excellent customer service and guidance to clients and buyers through every part of their journey, it’s an excellent fit for Rettie and our offering in the Southside of Glasgow, and we couldn’t be happier to have Kay on board.”
Ms Blair said: “Rettie continues to build a reputation for first-class professionalism, underpinned by a customer-centric approach which has made a real and positive impact in the local real estate market, an area I’ve lived in all my life. It’s a great time for me to be joining the firm and the impressive team based here, and across Glasgow and Scotland.”
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While Rettie is seeing sales in the Southside at an average of 6.5% above the home report value, high-quality properties in the family home and apartment categories in areas such as Giffnock, Pollokshields, Newton Mearns, Shawlands, Cathcart, Strathbungo, and Queens Park are regularly selling for around 25% above home report value.
“We are seeing stability in the local market, with confident buyers ready to move on,” Ms Blair added, “and quality properties are achieving well beyond expectations as people look to be part of a vibrant local community, and access high quality schooling and local amenities.”
OnTheMarket has signed a listing agreement with one of the UK’s largest independent property services firms operating in Scotland and the North of England, to advertise its UK residential sales and lettings properties.
Rettie is headquartered in Edinburgh and its 15-branch estate agency network primarily operates in London, Newcastle and Glasgow.
It also has specialist rural offices in St Andrews, Melrose and Berwick upon Tweed and includes fully integrated financial services, planning and surveying businesses, as well as property management and development divisions.
Shona Crawford, Rettie
Shona Crawford, Rettie Director of Marketing, says: “We are delighted to be listing our properties with OnTheMarket, following their acquisition by the CoStar Group.
“This is an exciting development within the residential property portal space, and it is great to be able to offer our customers access to a wide range of potential buyers through their platform, and to be working with the team at OnTheMarket in developing their customer offer.”
The deal with Rettie comes after Leaders Romans Group and Edward Mellor chose OnTheMarket as one of just two platforms it will be listing properties with going forward.
Jason Tebb (main picture), President of OnTheMarket, says: “We are delighted that Rettie has become the latest agency network to commit to OnTheMarket.
“The addition of such a strong regional brand continues our momentum and further strengthens our presence in the region as we continue our push for growth across the country.”
And he adds: “The business is making tremendous progress towards its goal of becoming the leading agent-friendly platform in the UK residential marketplace. We believe that we are now the fastest growing residential portal in the UK following the acquisition by CoStar Group.”
OnTheMarket (OTM) has signed a listing agreement with Rettie, one of the UK’s largest independent property services firms operating in Scotland and the North of England.
It follows similar announcements with Leaders Romans Group and Edward Mellor.
Headquartered in Edinburgh, Rettie’s 15-branch estate agency network primarily operates in London, Newcastle and Glasgow.
Jason Tebb, president of OTM, said: “We are delighted that Rettie has become the latest agency network to commit to OnTheMarket. The addition of such a strong regional brand continues our momentum and further strengthens our presence in the region as we continue our push for growth across the country.
“The business is making tremendous progress towards its goal of becoming the leading agent-friendly platform in the UK residential marketplace. We believe that we are now the fastest growing residential portal in the UK following the acquisition by CoStar Group.”
Shona Crawford, director of marketing of Rettie, added: “We are delighted to be listing our properties with OnTheMarket, following their acquisition by the CoStar Group.
“This is an exciting development within the residential property portal space, and it is great to be able to offer our customers access to a wide range of potential buyers through their platform, and to be working with the team at OnTheMarket in developing their customer offer.”
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