Dacre Son & Hartley’s Senior Surveyor James Wattrus has been promoted to Director, after joining the board.

The firm’s Survey Department employs five surveyors and two consultants, operating across Dacre, Son & Hartley’s 21-strong office network and adjoining areas covering North and West Yorkshire, from Bradford to Skipton, to North Leeds and Harrogate, Darlington and Teesside through to York and the Yorkshire Coast.

James says, “I am delighted and very proud to be promoted to a Director of this fantastic business, and I see it as an acknowledgement of the effort and dedication of the whole team. This has resulted in a sustained period of growth since I was appointed to manage the department, culminating in our expansion over the past 12 months with the engagement of two additional surveyors. We remain keen to expand our operational footprint which already covers a major portion of Yorkshire.

“However, the most exciting thing is that there is still so much more to do; we see survey reports becoming more important with changes in the mortgage market, as a result of which we will be looking to further improve our choice of reports as we continue building on our service standards.”

Patrick McCutcheon, Head of Residential Sales, says, “James has played an instrumental role in transforming our entire surveying division into an innovative and forward thinking, self-supporting, part of the Dacres business. It’s now one of the leading teams of property surveyors in the North of England and there’s no doubt it will continue to prosper under James’s leadership.”