Wow what an amazing 3rd guest in Ben Ridgway!!
Ben is the director of the IAM Property Group who own the Uk's no 1 residential auctioneer in IamSold, a company who work alongside 2,500 estate agents. His company were responsible for 60% of online auction activity in 2019 and they sold almost 4000 properties!
Ben's company have won multiple awards from best estate agency supplier through to being the 23rd fastest growing company in the Uk and to date have sold over £1billion worth of property!
I met Ben when we were both studying Estate Management at Northumbria University over 10 years ago and we were former work colleagues at an estate agency here in Newcastle.
In this episode we cover a range of topics such as:
- The importance of education for business owners and investors.
- The upcoming Regulation Of Property Agents legislation (ROPA) and what it means for the industry.
- Leaving the comfort of a day job to set up in business.
- Growing the business from start up through to raising private equity and the challenges he faced.
- His future ambition and diversifying his business interests to include developing new builds, a conveyancing company and more!
- His unique opinion on the property market and his predictions for 2021.
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