Client-side: What’s a buying agent, they guffaw

Alan Page was for many years an award winning advertising creative director and founder of his own successful agency. More recently he has served on the boards of various marketing businesses and acted as a property buying agent in the South of France. He has owned numerous homes in London, Paris and Saint Tropez and has now turned his hand to small prime central London property development.
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Prime Movers are property's power brokers; the sharpest, shrewdest, most successful, connected, respected individuals in the industry; they are at the top of the game at the top of the market.
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After three decades in the corporate world, former Savills director Richard Winter took the plunge and started his own buying agency last year, covering the prime Surrey market.
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Independent property search agency Sourcing Property has recruited a new member to its ranks of buying agents.
Rob Chard joins the firm after spending four years at Deutsche Bank in London and Singapore.
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