Proptech company Goodlord is on the recruitment trail again after slashing its headcount last year.
The firm – which helps digitise the lettings process – made 38 staff redundant in January 2018, mainly in sales and marketing as part of a restructure.
A year later and after a £7m funding round during 2018, it has now appointed a former Rightmove executive who also helped launch the Zero Deposit scheme as director of sales.
Costas Frangeskou was national sales director and head of commercial operations for Rightmove over an 11-year period before he left to help launch Zoopla-backed Zero Deposit in January 2017.
He left his role as sales director at Zero Deposit in October 2017, before it even went live, and after a period of consulting has been appointed to a similar position at Goodlord.
The business currently has several vacancies for sales and customer support positions.
The new appointment comes as Goodlord plans to roll out new products after introducing an energy switching service in November and a renewals feature earlier this month.
Frangeskou said: “I’m excited to now be part of the team and play my part as they continue to lead the way in making the renting process simpler whilst delivering increased value and protection for all stakeholders involved.”
William Reeve, chief executive of Goodlord, said: “We are extremely excited to have Costas join our team.
“His experience in the property industry will be invaluable, especially with the tenant fee ban coming, forcing the pace of change with letting agents throughout England.”
A spokesman for Goodlord said the sales director position is a new role “with the responsibility of leading our growing sales team and continue our new customer growth”.
The spokesman added: “Goodlord as a whole has been actively recruiting since the autumn following successful growth earlier in the year. Led by new chief executive William Reeve, we also went on to raise a Series B funding.
“We currently have roles available across the company – focusing our recruitment within engineering and product so we can expand the rate at which we develop our product and/or build new products for letting agents. There are currently seven different roles live on our website.”
Here we go again…
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Getting ready to disrupt?
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Bringing Costas in is a great move for Goodlord – he knows the agency world really well and is a no-nonsense guy.
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Most agents will read ’11 years of putting fees up at Rightmove, want’s to sell you something else’ – we can’t wait!
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I had a brief visit to their offices, and they seem a nice bunch, with a pretty good understanding of lettings.
I think all these prop tech companies, will eventually merge into one superpower. GoodLord, FixFlo, PayProp, *insert property management system of your choice*, OTM/Rightmove/Zoopla etc Why have all these different systems, when you should have one.
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Let’s hope not. The so called ‘super powers’ do not have customers, just hostages. I recently reviewed performance with one of our customers, they paying fees of £46,000.00 per month to one of the portals. The option to downgrade the level of service would result in even higher fees! How does that work……… Hotel California #2
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