Halls target residential lettings market with new appointment

Stephen Evans, 24, is excited to be taking up the new post at the company’s Welsh Bridge headquarters in Shrewsbury after spending the past six months working at the branch office in Whitchurch.

In his new role he will co-ordinate residential lettings in Shrewsbury, Whitchurch and Ellesmere, whilst also liaising with the company’s other offices in Bishops Castle, Welshpool, Oswestry, Kidderminster and Worcester.

“The residential lettings market in Shrewsbury and other parts of Shropshire and Mid Wales offers huge potential for Halls, which is a quality brand that is respected for providing a professional, friendly service through our network of offices,” said Mr Evans.

“We now aim to expand our services into this market, which is growing as more first time buyers experience difficulty in finding a mortgage in the current economic climate.”

A dairy farmer’s son from Duddleston, near Ellesmere, Stephen has experience of residential sales, lettings and management as well as land agency, tenancy agreements and estate management in North Shropshire and Cheshire.

He first worked for Halls on summer placements at the company’s Oswestry and Ellesmere offices whilst studying geography at Aberystwyth University.

A former pupil of Lakeland School and Ellesmere College, he is currently working towards a post graduate diploma in rural environment and land management at Harper Adams University College, Newport. He is also undertaking the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors’ Assessment of Professional Competency qualification.

Halls’ chairman Peter Willcock said: “Stephen is a talented young man who has developed his all-round knowledge of the business by working in our offices at Oswestry, Ellesmere and Whitchurch. We are delighted that he has taken on this important new role to develop the company’s residential lettings department.”