30 YEAR ANNIVERSARY

Neil Sargent Celebrates 30 years with Stratton & Holborow

Neil Sargent, Commercial Director and Chairman of Stratton & Holborow, celebrated 30 years with the Company having started originally with Taylor Son & Creber in March 1979.

Taylor Son & Creber soon became Taylor Lane & Creber with the merger with W H Lane & Sons of Penzance in the early 1980's before merging with Stratton & Holborow in 1989 to form Stratton Creber, which was then bought by Lloyds TSB Bank.

Neil was one of the original Partners involved in the management buy-out of much of Stratton Creber in 1997, and as Chairman of the Partnership, led the conversion into a Limited Company in October 2005.

Throughout the 30 years Neil has been based in Truro covering the whole of the County and parts of Devon in advising a variety of clients on commercial property related matters.

Neil remembers the early days as being much more relaxed with prices bearing little resemblance to property values in the recent boom times.

Neil was originally employed by the firm as a Commercial Negotiator. Early sales in his first year included freehold shops in River Street, Truro, a couple of Pubs and two Hotels, with his first major development transaction being the sale of a former Restaurant in Pydar Street, Truro which was subsequently developed to become the current WH Smiths.

The property recession of the late 80's/early 90's certainly changed the face of the commercial property and development market, although some 20 years on it is clear that not all the lessons from that time have been learnt.

Neil Sargent, as well as being Chairman of Stratton & Holborow, is also currently Chairman of the Cornwall Branch of the National Association of Estate Agents and a Trustee Director of Cornwall Blind Association, a long-established local Charity serving the needs of visually impaired people throughout the County.