PDQ Estates Ltd (PDQ) is a locally owned and independent company based in West Cornwall. We pride ourselves on our knowledge of the property market, our friendly, helpful attitude and have helped thousands of people to buy and sell property since opening in 2001. Despite being a relatively small, locally owned company, you may be surprised to learn that we have also provided estate agency insight, expertise and training to some of the biggest names on the UK high street including Tesco, RBS and clients of Standard and Poor (USA). We work hard on behalf of our customers and have received many commendations and awards for our service and innovation in estate agency. We have been finalists in the national Estate Agency of the Year awards on many occasions and were the first estate agent in the UK to secure the Honesty and Clarity mark for our estate agency contracts from the Plain English Campaign.

Opened in 2001, the business is managed by our sales Director, Helen Oliver MNAEA and owned by Chris Wood CertREA CPEA Chris has been involved in agency since 1989. An active champion of consumer rights and minimum standards for estate agents, Chris was an active member of the NAEA for 20 years. As well as holding the role of Cornwall chairman on a number of occasions, he held the role of Vice President of the National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) in 2006 and became President Elect in 2008 before resigning from the Association in 2009. Chris also held a number of other roles within the NAEA and the UK Property Standards Board.  A holder of the University of Reading’s Certificate of Residential Estate Agency and the NAEA's Certificate of Practice in Estate Agency, he appears regularly on radio, television and in the press and is regarded as one of the UK's leading proponents of social media within estate agency in the UK. Chris is also a serving member of The Rifles as part of HM Reserve Forces. Chris is on , Blogs and is on

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