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Stirling Ackroyd Group delivers 20% revenue growth in 2022
The opening of Department grows five sales and lettings offices and the acquisition of three property companies in London and the South East in 2022 has contributed to a 20% revenue growth...
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PICS: Going, going, gone! Beresford agency branding disappears after takeover
First of three branches operated by agency begin their re-brand to the Stirling Ackroyd corporate identity.
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Stirling Ackroyd snaps up three-branch London agency Beresford
Stirling Ackroyd, the new name of Nick Dunning's formerly eponymous agency grouping, says it has four more acquisitions planned for 2022.
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More changes at recently-rebranded Stirling Ackroyd Group
After re-branding all its branches and group identity as Stirling Ackroyd, the former Nick Dunning Associates has now made additional internal changes.
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Townends and Stirling Ackroyd in surprise move to outsource financial services
The two Nick Dunning Associates owned estate agencies have until now been served by the group's financial services arm Dot Financial.
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Stirling Ackroyd snaps up third London competitor this year
Shoreditch-based Bridge Estates is latest estate agency to be bought by the growing Nick Dunning-owned firm Stirling Ackroyd.
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LATEST: Another Countrywide exec hired by Nick Dunning Associates
Nick Dunning Associates has poached another former senior Countrywide executive, Vince Corley (pictured, below), to be its Managing Director for Sales and Financial Services. At Countrywide Vince headed up the company’s mortgage sales force and estate agency division and was also a key player in several agency acquisitions. He also drove Countrywide’s integration of group services within its agency business and increased its number of lettings branches. Nick Dunning Associates, which recently acquired Townends and Regents through the purchase of its parent company Badger Holdings as well as independent Adams Property, has also hired Stephen Wilson (pictured, below) to be its Managing Director of Professional Services. He is a Chartered Surveyor with more than 40 years’ experience both in the UK but also overseas. Stephen’s most recent role was to manage the sale of Stirling Ackroyd for the estate of its late owner, which was eventually sold to Nick Dunning Associates in July this year. Stephen has been running the business for Nick Dunning since the sale. Professional services He will focus on expanding professional services for Nick Dunning Associate’s growing client base including surveying, land and new homes and commercial property, which is a key growth area for the…
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Nick Dunning snaps up London agent Stirling Ackroyd
Six-branch estate and letting agency Stirling Ackroyd has been bought by Nick Dunning Associates, it has been revealed. Stirling Ackroyd was started up in 1987 in Shoreditch and has grown into a major name in London both for residential and commercial property sales and lettings. It currently manages some 1,400 residential properties in the capital. In January of this year the company’s directors met to agree a Corporate voluntary arrangement, which enables companies that are technically insolvent to continue trading by paying back creditors over a fixed period. Stirling Ackroyds most recent accounts are also overdue, according to Companies House. Stirling Ackroyd has branches in Bankside, Clerkenwell, Hackney, West End and Chatsworth Road, alongside its original Shoreditch branch (pictured, above). Stirling Ackroyd Nick Dunning Associates has ambitious plans for the company including a programme of investment in Stirling Ackroyd’s branch network and infrastructure, and an expansion programme to grow the business three-fold in three years both new branch openings and acquisition. This is the third agent brand Nick Dunning Associates has bought this year, following the purchase of Adams Property in Ealing this June and Badger Holding Group, owner of Townends and Regents, in January. “We are very excited about…
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Nick Dunning buys second lettings business
Nick Dunning Associates has revealed the purchase of another property business, Adams Property, a single-branch, lettings-only agency in Ealing, West London (pictured, right). Adams Property has been bought largely for its management book, which includes 700 properties in and around Ealing, and its reputation. The company was started up in 1993 and will now be added to the Badger Holdings portfolio, which Nick Dunning Associates acquired in late January this year. Badger Holdings operates the Townends and Regents high street brands which total 26 branches in London, Surrey, Middlesex and Hampshire. Adams Property is a trading name of and shares a registered address and most of the directors, of Middlesex Properties Management, which specialises in buy-to-let portfolio management and was set up in 1989. Badger Holdings The Badger Holding acquisition took place soon after Reading-based Nick Dunning Associates was launched, backed by an unnamed private equity investor and staffed by former Countrywide colleagues of Dunning’s. These include Julian Irby, who is the company’s CFO, Matt Hewitt, who is its Commercial Director and Sales Director Graham Harrison. Dunning says his company will acquire 20 lettings-only or focused business a year for the next five years in a bid to become a…
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Countrywide FD joins Nick Dunning Associates
Nick Dunning Associates has appointed Julian Irby as Chief Financial Officer and a main board director.
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