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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Joanna Bishop is a London rental property market specialist with 18 years’ experience. She has extensive knowledge advising tenants and finding properties for a broad range of clients from senior board level executives relocating to London, clients looking for a rental home whilst searching to buy a property, to repeat rental clients who need help with their next move.

Prior to working in rental advisory and search, Joanna spent 9 years in Investment Banking with her career predominantly spent at CS First Boston and JP Morgan.

Khaled has been working with and alongside Property Vision since 2010 through a variety of different roles. With his prior banking experience at HSBC Private Bank in London, his knowledge and expertise lie in unlocking commercially driven opportunities across the UK, with a focus on development and value-add properties; or as he says, anything with an “angle”.

Khaled lives in London and spends a lot of time around the UK sourcing interesting properties for his clients. He has two young children and spends much of his spare time trying out London’s new hotspots.

Ed has worked in the property industry for over 20 years, originally in the Cotswolds before returning to his roots in the South West in 2014.

From the beaches of Cornwall to the wilds of Exmoor, Ed covers the western edges of Property Vision’s reach, operating across Cornwall, Devon and West Somerset. Having grown up in Somerset, schooled in Dorset, a student at Exeter University, holidayed in Cornwall throughout his life and married to a Devon girl, Ed lives and breathes everything West Country – the only anomaly being the support of his beloved Gloucester Rugby rather than the (more successful) Exeter Chiefs.

With three children, an assortment of dogs, a motley selection of uncommercial sheep and too many horses, Ed lives on the southern slopes of Exmoor and when not in his car is usually found on the back of a horse.

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, having spent a number of years in Country House Agency, she is passionate about the area 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.

Marcus joined the country team of Property Vision in February 2021 and covers the South-East regions of Kent and Sussex.

After a decade as a freelance producer in the television advertising industry, he moved to Greece to set up and run a luxury villa agency from Corfu, as a Savills preferred agent. 

He returned home to work as the Head of International for UK Sotheby’s International Realty and moved to Sussex with his young family.

Following a stint at Strutt and Parker in the National Country House Department, he launched a business for international luxury property, before joining Property Vision in 2021.  

In his spare time, he is as an underpaid groom, driver and Pony Club Dad for his daughters, and a keen open water swimmer.

Emma joined the Property Vision team in 2020 and covers the West Country alongside George Wade with particular focus on Dorset, Wiltshire and Somerset.

After graduating from Bristol University with a degree in Geoscience, Emma moved to London and spent three years selling houses in south west London. Looking for greener, leafier pastures she moved west and spent the next 10 years selling country houses for a national agent.

Emma lives in rural Dorset with her husband and two young children. When not corralling the family she can be found outdoors enjoying a range of country pursuits or pouring over information related to her house build.

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.

Matthew started working life as a Troop Leader in the Royal Dragoon Guards after which he graduated in commercial estate management from Oxford Brookes. He joined Knight Frank in Sydney, Australia selling shopping malls and on returning to London he qualified as a Chartered Surveyor and became an associate partner in the commercial division.

As an independent operator Matthew specialised in acting for family offices and wealthy individuals who wished to dispose of high value real estate assets, privately. Matthew worked across all property sectors providing his clients with a bespoke and discrete service.

When not at work Matthew manages multi platinum selling rock band Feeder and is a keen lawn and real tennis player. Failing that he can be found on his ancient single gear bicycle (not wearing lycra) or walking in various parts of Europe.

Matthew is kept in check by his two daughters and lives in London.

Louise joined the team in 2019 and covers rental searches countrywide.

Her wealth of experience working for high profile lifestyle brands allows her to bring luxury to the PV rental search, and not a stone is left unturned in trying to fit the client brief into the property available.

She lives in the landlocked county of Wiltshire, which borders Dorset, Somerset, Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire all of which are desirable rental areas. She can often be found walking her cocker spaniel and thinking of her next walking challenge, which usually involves climbing a mountain or exploring a foreign shoreline.

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.

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.

Ed joined Property Vision in 2021 to advise buyers across the North and North West of England.

He has worked in real estate for the past 16 years, on the other side of the fence, selling prime county property for Strutt & Parker and Knight Frank.

Ed lives in Cheshire and studied at University of Liverpool. He has extensive knowledge of the market around Cheshire, Shropshire, Lancashire and Staffordshire and is passionate at providing an excellent service to his clients.

Away from work, Ed can either be found on a racecourse or entertaining his young children at home.

Samantha has nearly 30 years’ experience working within the Property Facilities Sector, working with directors, site operatives and the client from Local Authorities to Airport Authorities.  Outside work she enjoys all things country from walking her dogs to tending to her bees.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.