Partner & Auctioneer at Cottons Chartered Surveyors based in Edgbaston, Birmingham. I qualified as an ISVA associate member in 1994, Chartered Surveyor in 2000, Fellow of NAVA in 2009 and I am a member of both the NAEA and ARLA. I became a partner of Cottons in 1997 following a management buyout from the Halifax and restoring the company name of the historic Birmingham property agents started by the legendary property developer Jack Cotton in 1924.