{"id":124373,"date":"2022-01-27T13:00:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T06:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/super-prime-mover-meet-britains-most-successful-estate-agent\/"},"modified":"2022-01-27T14:10:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T07:10:53","slug":"super-prime-mover-meet-britains-most-successful-estate-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/super-prime-mover-meet-britains-most-successful-estate-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"Super-prime mover: meet Britain\u2019s most successful estate agent"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nGary Hersham has been selling houses to the very rich for decades. At first, \u00a31m was a big deal. Now he sells for \u00a350m, \u00a3100m, even \u00a3200m. What does it take to stay on top in this cut-throat business?Ring ring. Gary Hersham\u2019s phone was going, as usual. The super-prime London estate agent blew through the Mayfair office of his company, Beauchamp Estates, scattering employees behind him. As he climbed into the passenger seat of the company car, a Volkswagen Golf rather than his personal BMW, I asked where we were going. \u201cI don\u2019t know!\u201d he said. He found a postcode, and announced it to the driver. Ring ring. Hersham\u2019s mobile has the high-pitched jangle of an old-fashioned telephone at fire-alarm volume. \u201cI didn\u2019t ask you for that,\u201d he roared down the phone as we sat stationary outside his office. \u201cWhat makes you assume that\u2019s what I was doing? Could I speak to Emily please?\u201d Emily, his fantastic secretary. Ring ring. Someone else was calling. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to wait for Marcus!\u201dEnter, at a trot, Marcus O\u2019Brien, Hersham\u2019s protege: tall, slicked hair, suited and groomed, just 30. (Hersham is 68.) O\u2019Brien had been out for a big dinner the night before, knowable only from his stating the fact: there was no sickly pallor, despite being crammed into the back seat of the Golf, which was now winding its way through Mayfair, past the members\u2019 clubs and hedge funds and townhouses, a neighbourhood in which Hersham has been selling property for 43 years. His agency has sold houses for quantities of money that seem increasingly conceptual as they rise: Belgrave Square (\u00a350m), Caroline Terrace (\u00a360m), Grosvenor Crescent (\u00a3100m). Then the ultimate, a career peak in an already elevated range, the most expensive house ever sold in Britain: 2-8a Rutland Gate in Knightsbridge, sold in early 2020 for \u00a3215m. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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