Property Vision is the advisor of choice

As a graduate of the Royal Agricultural College Philip’s career started in farming, transitioning to commercial property in the early 90’s. Eight years spent selling houses in prime central London culminated in a move to Property Vision in 2001 focusing on the South East and East Anglia. Today this varied experience assists in running the business; however the exciting part is working across teams to help clients find and acquire the very best lifestyle and investment property.

Philip lives in the South Downs idyll surrounded by clients who have become friends, trying to find time for yoga, golf and sailing.

While studying in Moscow for her MSc in Economics, Gulnara started a property business to assist the growing number of corporate expats to understand the market. In 1998, she moved to London to complete an MBA at London Business School and went on to work as a business strategist at California-based Scient.

Straightaway she fell for the charms of London and, since joining the Property Vision team in 2005, has come to know its distinctive neighbourhoods and been lucky enough to see some of its most important houses.

She enjoys helping her international clients to establish homes here and acquire investment properties as well as running the business as a member of the management board.

Gulnara lives in London with her American husband and two daughters and is a yoga devotee.

After graduating from Newcastle University with a degree in history, Simon moved to London and spent four years learning his trade in estate agency. Having seen how things were done on the sales side of the fence, a move to the buying side was next. Simon has been with Property Vision since 2005 and advises clients on the acquisition of property in Central, North and East London.

Simon lives in South West London with his wife and three children. Outside of work he plays golf, loves watching and attending almost any sport you can think of and thoroughly enjoys travel.

After studying architecture at Cambridge University, James spent the first 17 years of his career at CBRE, managing UK commercial property funds invested across a broad range of sectors. He subsequently joined Property Vision to head up the commercial offering. James’ primary role is to advise clients on commercial property acquisitions throughout the UK, encompassing both owner occupier purchases and investments.

When not running numbers, James can usually be found on the tennis courts in Kent or on the beaches of northern France.

Prior to joining Property Vision, Caterina spent three and a half years involved in the restaurant industry and in the later years ran the Sales and Events department of two restaurants in the Shard. From here, she moved on and joined a London estate agent where she found Property Vision. Caterina supports both the residential and commercial teams at Property Vision. Outside work she enjoys being active whilst also trying out the new delights on the ever changing London restaurant scene.

Roarie graduated in History of Art from St Andrews and headed for the bright lights of London, where he was assured the streets were paved with gold. When he joined Property Vision in 2004, he was issued with a scooter, an A to Z, and in his first year he looked at nearly a thousand properties. Roarie has seen some exceptional properties and worked with incredible clients.

In his spare time Roarie heads back to the hills of Scotland, where he grew up, and travels the world in search of hard fighting fish.

Eric has been part of Property Vision since 1995 and had oversight for both the sale of the business to HSBC Private Bank in 2001 and the subsequent management buyout in 2012. He is now the firm’s Finance Director.

Aside from Property Vision, Eric keeps himself very fit and is a year-round badminton and tennis player.

Nicola has over 28 years’ experience providing support to senior board directors individually, groups of executives, company owners and private families. She started her career with Savills and joined Property Vision in 2005. Nicola runs the country office in Hungerford and supports the Country Residential team.

Nicola is a swim coach, certified diver and when not at work can be found swimming between the islands of the Aegean and beyond.

Robert joined Property Vision in 2011 and, from our Hungerford office, advises on buying property within the M4 corridor and throughout North Hampshire, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire.

Robert lives just outside Marlborough and has a thorough knowledge of the surrounding counties and their finest country houses and estates. He has three grown-up children and spends much of his spare time training young racehorses. Robert’s other passions include cycling and offshore sailing, but increasingly he can be found gardening and rewilding small areas of Wiltshire.

After a number of years working for a large farm management business Richard opted to pursue a career in the capital, and joined a leading agent selling houses in South West London, before joining Property Vision in 2001.

Having lived there with his family for the past 20 years, Richard has built up an encyclopaedic knowledge of the area, but he also looks after our Middle East client base and has been a regular traveller to the region for the last 15 years.

George spent an enjoyable 3 years at The Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester and graduated with a degree in Rural Land Management. His first Job in 1997 with a salary of £7500 saw him selling pedigree dairy cows from Cornwall to Scotland. Foot and Mouth caused a change of direction into selling property for a respected Cotswold Agency.

In 2006 George moved to his ‘home patch’ in Dorset to cover the West Country for Property Vision. He lives with his wife Emma and two children, too many horses, dogs and now his son’s ferrets.

Lucinda joined the Hungerford team in 2019 to advise buyers of country houses throughout Warwickshire, the Cotswolds, Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire. She grew up in the North Cotswolds and having spent a number of years in Country house agency. She is passionate about the area and its surrounding countryside and is a mine of local information.

Lucinda has a Business and Marketing degree from Oxford Brookes University and is a keen equestrian, who has represented Great Britain at the European Eventing Championships.

After several years assisting the team at a prominent London estate agent, Olivia took a sabbatical to travel around India, Australia and the Americas. With her interest in property as keen as ever on her return, she joined Property Vision in 2016 and supports the London Residential team.

Olivia’s home is in Shepherd’s Bush and she is passionate about the capital, particularly enjoying its theatre productions and latest art exhibitions.

Prior to joining Property Vision James spent seven years working on the other side – the selling side. Never completely comfortable with accentuating the positives and washing over all the pitfalls, James had his light bulb moment in 2010 and realised he really had a servant’s heart. The fulfilment of working in partnership with clients, to achieve the best result for them was to James, unrivalled.

Away from work James is a keen sports enthusiast and especially passionate about golf and cricket.

Hana came to England from The Czech Republic and joined the Property Vision country team in 2000. She provides administrative support to the country team based in Hungerford.

Hana lives between Hungerford and Newbury with her husband and two young children and enjoys long walks with the family, reading almost any genre of books, practising yoga and gardening.

After graduating Sarah worked for Savills in their head office in Mayfair for eight years. There she specialised in the sale and acquisition of some of the largest and most expensive farms and estates and frequently crossed paths with Property Vision. When she wasn’t driving the length and breadth of the country, living off Service Station sandwiches(!) she completed a Masters in Property at Reading University.

In 2012 Sarah moved to Singapore and now helps to look after Property Vision’s overseas clients as well as generating new business and forging new relationships across South East Asia.

After leaving Newcastle having studied Business Management Alex went on to Exeter to study Teaching, culminating in Teaching Engineering and Electronics at Radley College. After many years of teaching Alex realised his true passion was property rather than the classroom. Joining Property Vision in 2018, having spent most of his life in Berkshire, he has a thorough knowledge of the countryside from Hungerford to Henley and on to Ascot.

Alexander has built his own car from scratch and spends his spare time racing his bicycles across Berkshire, Wiltshire and Oxfordshire.

Patricia joined Property Vision in 2006. Having grown up in Chichester, West Sussex and now living on the Berkshire/Surrey borders, her role at Property Vision has grown into much more than just database work in terms of local knowledge and research. Her greatest interests are architecture, languages, travelling and teaching the piano.

Sasha has worked in residential property for nearly twenty years and, after some time away, has naturally gravitated back to the industry and now manages our comprehensive internal database that holds thousands of records going back over 25 years. Used daily by our offices it is necessary for her to work closely with the team to ensure we hold the next 25 years.

When not compiling data Sasha likes to travel, she is a keen embroiderer and has a fascination with Tudor history.

Covering the Home Counties, Tim specialises in country houses as well as the more suburban areas and properties on private estates. He joined Property Vision in 2006, with the launch of their Ascot office and has worked throughout all of the Home Counties.

Tim lives in Surrey, where he has spent most of his life, with his wife and two children. After completing a Business Studies Degree in Edinburgh he has worked on a trading floor in the City, and in the car industry, with his focus turning to property in 2006. Aside from property he enjoys Golf, Tennis and running. He also has a real weakness for activities in the mountains and more recently has started ocean swimming.

Nick joined Property Vision in 1988 after 4 years in the fine art world, running his own business and 3 years with a national agent. Based in Hampshire for 30 years working for a lot of great clients he knows the country house, farm and estate market in the south of England as well as anyone.

His two grown up children live in London and Nick and his wife now live in south Oxfordshire. His passions are long dog walks on the Ridgeway, fishing and running.

Charlie was a joint founder of Property Vision in 1983. He started his career with Jardine Matheson in Hong Kong after leaving Oxford with a History degree. He is currently a director and trustee of the Cadogan Estate and author of two novels both published by Quartet. He writes for various publications and lives between Somerset and London.

He sails, and flies aeroplanes and paragliders, and would like to have Carpe Diem on his tombstone.

Peter’s first job was in Research and Development. Two patents later, he left for a career in property, arriving at Property Vision over twenty years ago. All the lateral skills that Peter had learnt in research and development were utilised and tested every day and, with demanding partners, it is never dull.

Peter also runs his family estate in Northern Ireland which includes forestry and a wedding business, and chairs an Irish Grouse conservation project, which was awarded a Purdey Game and Conservation award in 2011.