Spicerhaart

Spicerhaart Group Ltd is an English estate agency and financial services company based in Colchester, Essex, and operating throughout the United Kingdom. It is the largest independent estate agency network in the UK.

History

The company has its origins in 1989,^[1] where father and son Alick and Paul Smith opened three branches of Spicer McColl in East Anglia. They took over 45 Darlows branches in 2000^[2] when that company went into receivership, and acquired the South Yorkshire company Haybrook in 2007.^[3]

Spicerhaart purchased iSold estate agents (formerly Tesco Property Market) from Tesco plc in 2008, after it was ruled that Tesco could not act as an estate agent without being registered as such. Spicerhaart and Tesco are now involved in a legal dispute.^[4]

Management

Paul Smith is CEO and John Spence OBE is the Non-Executive Chairman. The company's headquarters and contact centre are in Colchester, Essex.

Estate agency brands

Spicerhaart currently trade under the following brands:

Spicer McColl (across England)
Chewton Rose (South England and Midlands)
Darlows (Cardiff and Wales)
Felicity J Lord (London area)
Haart (across England)
Haybrook (South Yorkshire)
Valunation
Spicerhaart Financial Services
Harper James
Just Mortgages
Spicerhaart Land and New Homes

Awards

Spicerhaart has won a number of awards including the Daily Mail awards for Estate Agency.

Notes

External links

Spicerhaart website

Real estate in the United Kingdom

Companies

Developers and owners	Allied London Argent Group Assura Group Balkan Dream Properties Banks Group Brent Walker British Railways Property Board Bruntwood Capital & Centric CLS Holdings Coin Street Community Builders Daejan Holdings Downing Developments Goodman UK Grainger Grosvenor Group Lexi Holdings The Maghull Group MEPC Minerva London & Associated Properties Opal Property Group St. Modwen Properties Sellar Property Group Span Developments St Martins Property Group Targetfollow The Bedford Estate The Peel Group Trafalgar House West Properties

Housebuilders	Barratt Bellway Berkeley Bloor Boot Bovis Countryside Properties Crest Nicholson Keepmoat Lend Lease McCarthy & Stone Miller Muir Persimmon Redrow Taylor Wimpey United House

Property services	Adzuna Alpha1Estates Atlantis Bidwells BNP Paribas Real Estate Carter Jonas CBRE Group Chestertons CKD Galbraith RH & RW Clutton Cluttons Colliers International Connells Group Countrywide Cushman & Wakefield Cyril Leonard Drivers Jonas DTZ EC Harris Edinburgh Solicitors Property Centre Foxtons Gerald Eve GVA Hamptons International Harrods Estates ISold estate agents Jones Lang LaSalle King Sturge Knight Frank LSL Property Services Nathaniel Lichfield and Partners Nestoria Northwood Osborne King Primelocation Regus Rightmove Savills Smiths Gore Spicerhaart Strutt & Parker UK Property Shop Whelan Commercial Winkworth Zoopla

Real estate investment trusts	Big Yellow Group British Land Brixton Derwent London Great Portland Estates Hammerson Hansteen Holdings Intu Properties Land Securities London & Stamford Property Primary Health Properties Segro Shaftesbury plc Workspace Group

Industry bodies

Law and regulation

Other

Category

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