PDQ offers a discreet and highly effective consultancy service that offers bespoke solutions to property professionals. Whether you are looking to set up a new business venture and simply require one or two days of advice and experience or have a major project that requires industry leading insight; PDQ can help!

Chris has worked with all sizes and types of businesses from principals of one office independents to the management team and board of two of the biggest names in banking and retailing in the UK today. A former President Elect of the NAEA and board member of NFoPP until he resigned in 2009, Chris has been at the cutting edge of property standards in the UK and was one of the founder members of the Property Standards Board chaired by Lady Diane Heyter

Our first contract was a cold start one lady estate agency office in a seaside fishing town. She is now a market leader and employs four members of staff. Chris still maintains that his most enjoyable projects are the smaller ones!

In 2006,  we were awarded our largest contract involved developing a business idea we had created for a client into a workable model with projected profits in excess of £100 Million Per Annum. It was, to the best of our knowledge, the largest estate agency based project ever undertaken in the UK at that time. We were subsequently engaged by the same company for a further 3 months.

Chris is also regularly called upon by Standard and Poor's clients to give market and property sector advice and opinion on the UK housing market, agents and related fields. Many other agents and related businesses have also called on, and profited from, our advice, knowledge and ideas.

A brief résumé:

MD of PDQ Estates Ltd. Consultancy, training & property sales:

• Board level advisor to Tesco and RBS (eight months)
• National finalists estate agent of the year 2003, 2004 & 2006
• Campaign for Plain English Award for 'honesty & clarity'.
• Past lecturer in estate agency at Truro business college
• Certificate in Residential Estate Agency, Whiteknights college.
• Certificate of Practice in Estate Agency (i & ii), NAEA
• Various estate agency and B2B consultancy contracts

NAEA (National Association of Estate Agents) - resigned from the association and board in 2009:

• President elect of the NAEA (elected May 2008)
• Fellow and board member of the NAEA and NFoPP
• Chairman of Homelink (over 650 offices internationally)
• Deputy chairman of residential sales working party
• Past assistant business practice officer (code compliance and discipline)
• Membership & professional development committee
• A founding member of the Property Standards Board (chaired by Lady Dianne Hayter)

Media experience:

• BBC News 24
• BBC Breakfast news
• Independent radio (various)
• BBC 5 Live
• ITV regional news
• BBC and independent local radio
• Various trade journals
• Columnist/ contributor to various journals/ newspapers

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