Countrywide PLC provides various services to participants in the residential property market. It operates four main divisions that include Estate Agency, Financial Services, Residential Conveyancing, and Residential Surveying and Valuation Services.
Estate Agency
The Company’s estate agency subsidiaries are regionally based throughout the UK. The Company’s subsidiaries: Countrywide Residential Lettings, Countrywide Property Management, PKL and Countrywide Property Auctions supply a spectrum of...
Countrywide PLC provides various services to participants in the residential property market. It operates four main divisions that include Estate Agency, Financial Services, Residential Conveyancing, and Residential Surveying and Valuation Services.
Estate Agency
The Company’s estate agency subsidiaries are regionally based throughout the UK. The Company’s subsidiaries: Countrywide Residential Lettings, Countrywide Property Management, PKL and Countrywide Property Auctions supply a spectrum of property and management services to residential and commercial clients. It operates under local brands, such as Bairstow Eves, Mann & Co, John D Wood, Dixons, Bridgfords, Palmer Snell, Fulfords, Abbotts, Taylors and Faron Sutaria its chain of 880 estate agency branches, including 76 independently owned and operated franchised branches, sells homes on behalf of vendors all over the country. In 2003, the company opened 2 offices in Spain to sell property mainly to UK resident clients, many of whom are introduced by its estate agency offices. It also includes Residential Lettings.
Financial Services
The company’s Financial services segment is integrated into all of its estate agency offices. The Company’s mortgage consultants have access to over 150 lenders offering many different schemes.
The Financial Services Division comprises 792 mortgage consultants based in the owned and franchised estate agency offices to assist both buyers and sellers in their requirements for mortgage finance and insurance, including all types of personal protection and home and contents cover.
Countrywide Lending Solutions are market specialists in financial services, offering a range of Buy to Let, Self Certification/'Special Status' and Credit Impaired mortgages that have been designed to answer individual rather than mass market needs.
Residential Conveyancing
Countrywide Property Lawyers (CPL) is a subsidiary of Countrywide PLC formed in 1997, to provide the foremost service in residential conveyancing within England and Wales. CPL currently has five centers across the U.K.
Residential Surveying and Valuation
Countrywide Surveyors is one of Europe's surveying and valuation practices. It is a residential survey business in the U.K. and operates from 140 locations nationally.
History
Countrywide PLC was founded in May 2004 as a result of demerger of Countrywide Assured plc from its group company, Countrywide Group Assured Group plc.