JOHNS&CO estate agency has opened a new office in Brentford, West London.
This represents the firm’s 8th office in the capital following the opening of new headquarters in Royal Wharf last year.
As part of the office launch, eight new members of staff have been hired, including three in lettings, three in sales, a property manager and an assistant.
The Brentford office will be led by Jon Johnson, senior sales manager and new joiner, assistant lettings manager, Faid Al Jashamie.
The branch will be overseen by head of lettings, Boutaina Cansick, and sales director Chris Osmond.
Clynton Nel, residential director at JOHNS&CO, said: “This is an exciting moment for JOHNS&CO as we continue on our mission to expand across London. We’ve grown significantly in the last few years and have expanded far beyond our roots as specialist agents in residential development in East London and Canary Wharf.
“Following a challenging year for all, we are pleased to be in a position to expand and offer exciting employment opportunities as a result and we look forward to continuing this momentum in the months and years to come.”
The new JOHNS&CO office, which officially launches today, is offering a 0% commission initiative, allowing the first 150 people to instruct the agency to sell or let their home without paying any commission.
Cansick commented: “Having worked in the local area for several years previously and now living nearby myself, I am particularly excited to be launching a new office in Brentford.
“JOHNS&CO has such a strong presence in East London where it continues to dominate and our ambition is to build on that success and grow our footprint Westwards. I look forward to supporting homeowners, landlords, buyers and renters in Brentford and the wider West London area.”
Comments (6)
It’s shameful that the EYE is not reporting that the owners of this agency are Ballymore the large conglomerate building firm
They have a large housing scheme in Brentford. Prancing around offering 0% making it out like its a successful story of growth when just bankrolled by Ballymore.
It’s in their interest to promote brentford right now. They have many flats with the government subsidy of Help To Buy to flog, hopefully no cladding issues on these ones.
EYE needs to get a grip over its reporting – This is not a sustainable model for independent agents yet reading the article you would think that this is a success story for an agent when it’s just another deep pocket owner.
Nowhere does it say it is a sustainable long term model for agents.
They are reporting a new agent that is currently charging 0%.
I doubt that the 1st 150 to sign up for that deal give 2 hoots who owns the company or of it is sustainable.
I think you are missing the point of my post.
Hi,
I agree with your perspective totally and I am sure you are correct.
I do think though that the vendors who get a 0% fee will not care.
Thank you and agree with your point on vendors.
My feelings are though that a lot of aspiring agents read the EYE and it’s incorrect to paint a picture that this is some sort of success story built from the ground up. It may leave an independent agent thinking they need to do 0% as a means to take forward a new office opening.
There are lots of good independent agents employing agents over a number of years. It seems unfair that there work is put to the side by a major conglomerate (fuelled by taxpayer money in HTB) doing 0%.
Unknown to most especially their poor customers is that Johns & Co is owned by the owners of Ballymore, take a look on companies house who the PSC are for yourself. Quite unbelievable they are able to conceal this and not feel the need to mention it at all in what some may consider a significant conflict of interest to their customers. Most of their customers are property owners in a Ballymore development, yet they have no idea the agents Ballymore heavily promote them to use is indirectly owned by Ballymore itself. Recently Ballymore was in the Financial Times for not very good reasons…