Rejected Propertymark Vice President candidate says process is “undemocratic”

One of the agents nominated for the role of Propertymark Vice President says he is disappointed with the way the election is being conducted. Penzance agent and long-time outspoken critic of the industry’s status-quo Chris Wood (pictured, left), managing director of PDQ Properties, says in the past there were half a dozen people who eventually stood for the post after being nominated, and who were then voted on. He says that this time around he was told nominations for the post would have to be approved by a panel and then interviewed before standing for election. “I was happy to play along with at first because I assumed there had been a change in the rules – but I can’t see that there have been any,” says Chris. “I attended the interview and then received a letter that I had been unsuccessful from Christopher Hamer [the current executive chairman] on the day the candidates were announced.” Not democratic Chris says he disagrees with this way of filtering candidates and that it was “not democratic”. “I’ll happily stand and face my peers in a vote, and if I get voted off for being a gobby so-and-so and occasional loose cannon then that’s…

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