Leading chartered surveyors group Berrys has amalgamated its two
offices at Towcester and Northampton to improve services to clients
and extend product offering.
Staff from both offices will now work from the Northampton
premises at York Road and will continue to offer commercial and
residential valuations and surveys, commercial agency and
specialist charities property work. Berrys' office at
Kettering continues unchanged as do the offices in Shropshire and
Cheshire.
The Northampton office will be headed by Duncan Scott, a member
of Berrys' management board, who joined the firm in December 2009
with the acquisition of the Towcester-based survey and
valuation practice C & S Surveyors LLP which he ran with
Jonathan Carpenter.
"We wanted to consolidate the two offices and it made sense to
base ourselves in the centre of the county in the county town at
least for the present time with the possibility of moving to
other premises if necessary in the future," said Duncan.
Duncan Scott is no stranger to Berrys having trained as a
chartered surveyor with the firm in the 1970s before starting his
own surveying business and spending a few years as an airline
pilot. He has now come full circle and will offer traditional
valuation and property services as well as overseeing a specialist
charities department advising many of the UK's leading
charities.
The York Road office has been under the Berrys banner since 2008
when the firm acquired the commercial property and valuation
business Richard Conn & Co to broaden its offering from a
predominately agriculture and rural client base.
Andrew Tompson, an associate of Berrys who joined in 2008 with
Richard Conn & Co, will continue to operate from Northampton,
specialising in commercial property and valuations.
He will be joined by fellow associate partner Jonathan
Carpenter, who is the residential property expert dealing with
valuations and surveys and housing association work.
Richard Conn and Tony Gray, both well known and experienced
chartered surveyors, are being retained as consultants to assist as
and when required
There will be two full time clerical staff, Penny Evans and
Jenny Coleman, with Maggie Scott continuing as the charities
administrator and Alex Riley as part time secretary.
"This is an exciting development for Berrys enabling us to share
our resources and knowledge so we can improve and develop services
to a growing client base," Duncan explained.
"We are also actively seeking an agency specialist to take
control of our commercial agency department at Northampton and look
forward to hearing from suitable applicants, with relevant
experience, who want to join our expanding team," he added.
For further details please contact Berrys at Northampton on
01604 630251 or email duncan.scott@berrybros.com or visit www.berrybros.com