Following a phenomenally successful first year of operation, Newton Abbot based commercial property specialist Charles Darrow, has expanded its team with the recent hiring of James Sanders. James is a graduate trainee with nearly three years of post-university experience in property management and renovation, and latterly working ‘at the coalface’ in an Australian bar before returning to Devon.
The company plans to use his skills initially to help expand its social media marketing and development of the Charles Darrow brand, to assist the directors in all aspects of the business, and ultimately to initiate new business leisure transactions, specifically in the café / coffee shop / tea rooms / restaurant areas of the business – where they are experiencing particularly high demand.
Following the successful sales of Cockhaven Manor in Bishopsteignton and the Riverside Inn at Bovey Tracey towards the end of last year, and with several transactions right across the spectrum of the company’s activities coming close to completion, Charles Darrow’s confidence in the future is strong.
The directors feel their first year’s successful trading reflects a general improvement in the commercial property market which can only continue and, in order to deal with the rapidly increasing number of transactions they are already being asked to manage since the beginning of January – including the disposal of a £6 million investment portfolio in Torbay, another pair of hands was a virtual necessity.
They are also planning on developing other areas of their business, with further staffing additions likely in the near future.
