Team recruits McClintock to new business venture
News Category: Industry News
Published: 19-May-2010
Industry veteran Bill McClintock – who is also chairman of the board for the Property Ombudsman – has been appointed chairman of a new venture, Team Property Services.
In partnership with conveyancing and HIP supplier MyHomeMove, this is set to turn members’ offices into one-stop shops.
Speaking at the Team spring conference in Exeter, Phil Irving, managing director of Team Property Services, said: “It is a huge tribute both to the strength of the proposition and to Team as a whole that we have succeeded in recruiting an industry heavyweight of his calibre to head up this move into related fee-earning service provision.”
Over two-thirds of Team members have so far signed up for the new scheme.
Contracts are already in place with major suppliers for financial services, surveys, removals, buildings and contents insurance and home media – with further agreements expected on utilities switching, lettings services and locksmiths.
Irving told the conference that Team members could expect to earn up to £655 per property, the rough equivalent of an extra 0.25% commission.
The extra services will all be sold directly from a dedicated sales centre in Camberley, Surrey, leaving agents free to concentrate on the house sale.
Stephen Hayter, sales and marketing director for MyHomeMove, revealed that in their first full year as the Association’s HIPs and conveyancing partners, Team and its individual members together earned more than £6.8m in additional income.
Around 150 agents attended the highly successful conference, which was sponsored by the Digital Property Group.
Compered for the first time by top industry trainer Clare Fletcher, other speakers included James Baker of Google and former Daily Mail property editor Nigel Lewis, now of Digital.
A golf tournament the following day was won by Team members Simon Williams and Mark Templer in first and second place, with Phil Irving coming third.
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