Sales and lettings manager vacancy at leading East Lothian chartered surveyors, Chalmers & Co
Chalmers & Co, East Lothian’s leading chartered surveyors, letting agents and estate agents, is looking for an experienced Sales and Lettings Manager. Chalmers & Co has a multi-discipline team, which includes architectural services, estate management and valuations, based in its newly refurbished, High Street offices in Haddington.
Suitable candidates may be surveyors, or may simply have experience of dealing with property, people, leasing and sales generally.
Chalmers & Co is looking for a wise owl able to pass a five-point eye test:
1. Read the property market – lettings and sales; residential and commercial.
2. Spot potential of a property and make the sale - finding a tenant or purchaser.
3. Distinguish and act on what is important to clients.
4. Identify and resolve problems with properties and tenants, often with the help of surveying and architectural colleagues.
5. Observe how to draw out the best in a team and work on this continually.
Candidates must have some relevant experience in lettings, management and selling property, as well as in managing a team.
Francis Ogilvy, owner of the firm, says:
“This post arises through the retirement of our current Lettings Manager after 25 years service – but we won’t let her go until a replacement to lead on lettings and estate agency work has been found!
“This is an opportunity to develop our estate agency side of the business, and the focus for this position will be on residential property; however, with the combined surveying and architectural disciplines across the firm, we are capable of dealing with most property types for lettings and management as well as sales.
“The range includes all types of rural property from flats to farms, bothies to barns, sheltered housing to shelter belts, high street stores to high-ground moors and from cottages to castles. And, we remain open to new challenges!”
Chalmers & Co has for nearly 40 years provided land and estate agency, property management and architectural services throughout East Lothian, Midlothian and the Borders as well as further afield. Linked initially with the surveyors John Sale, a buy-out in 1995 meant a name change yet retention of the personnel and property management ethos.
Francis Ogilvy adds:
“Our clients range from families with a long tradition of property ownership or management, to those who have become involved with property more recently for investment reasons. Our aim is to balance clients’ need for income from properties with capital growth and to do this through an integrated approach to property investment and management.”
Application procedure
Please apply in writing or via e-mail by 23rd February 2010 enclosing a covering letter or email, your CV and a completed job application form to Mrs Audrey Stevenson, a.stevenson@chalmers-surveyors.com or 48 High Street, Haddington, East Lothian EH41 3EF. More information is available on the Chalmers & Co’s website at http://www.chalmers-surveyors.com/newspage.php?id=33