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Jon Byers is Managing Director of London estate agency Anderson Rose. Jon spent fourteen happy years at Hamptons prior to launching Anderson Rose. He began his career at Hamptons Tower Bridge, he then launched the City of London office which he ran until 2007 and then moved out to the country to become Hamptons’ South East Regional Director.
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