Well known industry figure Nick Salmon has resigned from his position as head of estate agency at Nottingham Building Society.
Salmon is well known for founding and leading the high profile – and ultimately successful – SPLINTA campaign against Home Information Packs, during which time he established a reputation as an effective and strong communicator.
He was with Lurot Brand, the London Mews Company, for 15 years, latterly becoming its managing director.
In 2007 moved to Harrison Murray estate agents in Northampton as commercial director. He was appointed managing director in 2010.
In February this year, the independent firm was acquired by the Nottingham Building Society and Salmon became head of an expanded 33-branch network stretching from Hertfordshire to the East Midlands.
Salmon said: “After six very happy and profitable years at Harrison Murray it is time to move on.
“I wish my colleagues well for the future and I look forward to fresh opportunities for utilising my extensive experience in successful estate agency management.”
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Very best wishes to Nick, an excellent speaker who worked tirelessly for our profession, often behind the scenes. I'm sure he will be back with another venture soon. He was wrong on HIPS but so were many, many people.
Hi Nick
And best wishes, thanks for your work with Splinta. In over 35 years I've never seen anyone do better at pulling estate agents together.
I can't wait to hear what you do next. No doubt there will be a huge pile of offers for consultancy and full time work for a man of your caliber.
We've discussed portals before, maybe this is where you could serve the agents again by getting them to work together with a shared objective.
You're always welcome to drop in for coffee if you're passing through Harpenden, but sorting through those offers may keep you too busy!
Best wishes
Lance
Mr Farley-Pettman - "SPLINTA have, of course, been proved completely wrong in that the removal of the HIP has NOT speeded the processing of transactions and if anything has made it slower and more expensive."
REALLY?? I - and countless others think not.
What makes you state such a ting, I wonder?
Hmmm... from his Tw@tter page:
"Once school teacher of design & technology later ICT. Retrained; became a HIP provider now self employed Domestic Energy Assessor and part time teacher - again."
Ahhh... no hidden agenda whatsoever, then...
Nice try - maybe next time pick a username that doesn't give away your game! ;o)
I suspect that those who 'love' HIPs and want them back are probably working for the corporates, who of course saw being able to provide a 'free' HIP as a way of getting rid of all those irritating little independents!
Either that or they have a very short memory, and have forgotten the impact on the market of vendors having to stump up some cash and wait before a property went on the market!
Good luck to Nick Salmon wherever he ends up.
I am with EW on this - best of British to Nick Salmon. He made a difference and even those who think he didn't should admire him for at least trying
SPLITA kept the issue in the limelight - they weren't ignored.
Anyway - I look forward to seeing where Nick goes. I suspect some of the dissenting voices are negs who should be out cnavassing :)
Good Luck Nick - I hope all goes well.
As an aside on the unrelated issue of HIPs - I also think SPLINTA did a good job in campaigning for the abolishion of HIPs 'light' - a policy flawed from comprimise from the start and which penalised compliant agents.
Consumers may not have complained, but that didn't imply support, rather a simple and total disinterest in the myriad of documents many weren't qualified to read. Not only that, you could have a blank page in a HIP as long as that page had a title and without HCR's, the one bit that would have helped consumers, they were useless red tape. Government were to blame, not SPLINTA
Transactions may not have sped up, but they haven't slowed either underlining HIPs lack of value. Nick stood up and was counted whilst other sat and moaned. Rightly or wrongly, I admire that.
I loved em.
Nick should be running Agents Mutual.
What a narrow view "Industry Observer", as Nick's junior assistant in the SPLINTA campaign, his work did buyers, sellers, agents -, indeed the whole industry (save, of course those engaged in producing HIPS) an enormous service. We both spent a huge amount of time (totally unremunerated) working on the project and, if proof were needed of the correctness of our cause, how come the Conservative government made abolition their first act when they assumed power?. Indeed some commentators and politicians have indicated to me that their previously much trailed intentions assisted their success at the election.
A.N. Other, you are wrong. I am certain it was our work that convinced Tories that abolition was necessary and a vote winner for them!
Good luck in the next phase of your successful estate agency career Nick, although I suspect an influential Board position on one of the Portals would be much appreciated by your fellow agents! Cheers, Big T.
SPLINTA have, of course, been proved completely wrong in that the removal of the HIP has NOT speeded the processing of transactions and if anything has made it slower and more expensive. Having said that the HIP was far from perfect and SPLINTA had some very sensible ideas such as an instant access to land registry, local authority and utility company data which combined with the cornerstone of the HIP, the Home Condition Survey would have made a much more useful product.
I am pretty sure it was absolutely nothing to do with SPLINTA that HIP's were scrapped, if the Tory's had wanted to keep them they would have regardless of what SPLINTA where saying.
Nothing to be proud of in getting rid of HIPs.
As I have said for years - anyone out there ever heard of a consumer (buyer) that was opposed to them? Or anyone other than an estate agent?