Countrywide has appointed Paul Wareham managing director of its surveying services division.
Wareham was previously director of field operations for Countrywide Surveying Services and has over 30 years experience of the property and financial services industries. His work history includes senior management posts within Lloyds Banking Group, specifically at Colleys Surveyors and within the Halifax retail branch network.
Wareham said: “My new role is to lead the group’s surveying team, including Harvey Donaldson Gibson, Hamptons Professional and United Surveyors into the next phase of our Building our Future strategy.
“We will continue to put our corporate partners and third party customers at the heart of what we do and will support that by creating an environment that allows our people to provide the best possible service, not only for our clients but for each of our people as well.”
Countrywide is yet to appoint Wareham’s replacement.
Countrywide surveying services handles circa 30% of all residential mortgage valuations in the UK and in 2015 completed over 335,000 valuations and survey transactions, employing 440 qualified surveyors.
Victoria Hartley is contributing editor at Mortgage Solutions, Specialist Lending Solutions, Your Money and Your Mortgage at London-based publishing company AE3 Media.
She has an MA in Radio from Goldsmiths after gaining a 2:1 in a Comparative American Studies BA at Warwick University. She also holds a TEFL qualification and taught overseas in Mexico and Japan from 1994 to 1997.
Her role includes editorial oversight of the news, analysis and features, event content management and strategic and editorial consultancy for the AE3 Media group. She is an experienced video, broadcast and live-event host and regularly chairs web and podcast debates and interviews.
Multiple award nominations have resulted in two wins: Santander Media Awards, trade journalist of the year and Headlinemoney Awards, mortgage journalist of the year (B2B). Here is one of the award-winning pieces: https://www.mortgagesolutions.co.uk/news/2011/07/21/exclusive-tale-bailey-fraud-witness/
Previous roles include editorships of Mortgage Solutions, consumer title What Mortgage and trade title Credit Today as well as a stint freelancing for a variety of outlets including The Guardian and Which? Money.
