CAAV Exam Success
Woolley & Wallis are pleased to announce that Owen Davies has passed the recent Central Association of Agricultural Valuers (CAAV) examinations and is now well on his way to becoming a Fellow of the Association. Owen, who is a member of the Hants, Wilts & Dorset Branch, said: “I am absolutely delighted with my results - passing such a difficult exam is one of my greatest achievements. I was awarded an Honours degree after three years at Cirencester, and became a Member of the RICS after my first two years with Woolley & Wallis. Passing the CAAV exams is the culmination of many years’ hard work.”
To become a Fellow of the CAAV (with the qualification FAAV) a professional adviser must pass the Association's own written, practical and oral examinations. Such professional advisers specialise in agricultural and rural matters and, in addition to having passed the stringent CAAV professional entrance examinations, the member must have practised as an agricultural valuer for a minimum of two years.
Jonathan Young, a Partner of Woolley & Wallis and Fellow of the CAAV, said: “we are delighted that Owen’s considerable efforts have been rewarded. His success confirms his position as a key member of our rural professional team.”
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Commercial Department on the move
As from Tuesday 1st December The Commercial Department will be in residence in the main Woolley & Wallis offices at 51-61 Castle Street, Salisbury.
The Commercial Property Department has been in St Thomas’s Square, Salisbury since the firm’s merger with Smith Walker 1999 when the former team of Simon Scutt, Chris Jaggar and Pip Austreng moved from their office in Castle Street to the Smith Walker Offices in St Thomas’s Square, joining with Andrew Cochran and Emma Middleton.
The existing team of Andrew Cochran, Robert Horton, Samantha Mellow, Pip Austreng and Emma Middleton will remain the same and will continue to offer advice on all aspects of commercial property from acquisition and valuation to property management and disposal. Although they will miss their excellent accommodation in St Thomas’s Square they are looking forward to being a more integrated part of the Woolley & Wallis organisation and will benefit from the enhanced liaison their close proximity to the other departments in the firm will offer. |
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2009 Dairy Show
Woolley & Wallis were at the 2009 Dairy Show on Wednesday 7th October at the Royal Bath & West Showground and able to report a highly successful day. The Show attracted a record attendance of 6249 visitors and Woolley & Wallis certainly had a tremendous number of new and existing clients on the stand. For the last 15 years we have occupied a prime position overlooking the main cattle judging ring in the Showering Pavilion and affording a perfect position for clients to view the day's livestock exhibitors and the all important Supreme Championship. This year it was won, by Blue Grass Jazzman Panama, a Jersey cow born in 2003 and the first Jersey to win the award at the Dairy Show in over twenty nine years.
The rural team was well represented and were on hand to give advice and help with a range of complex enquiries ranging from Property, Farm and Land Values through to Tenancy and Single Payment and Mapping questions. The new generation of rural professionals represented by Christopher Rhodes and Owen Davies gave a good account of themselves and it was encouraging to see that they are attracting a strong client following.
The amount of business generated on the day reflected that the Dairy Show is one of the year’s highlights, which is eagerly anticipated by all of us. Woolley & Wallis have built an enviable reputation for serving the dairy industry with integrity and sound advice and are one of the leading firms involved in buying and selling dairy farms across central southern England.
Richard Nocton said "We were busy for the whole day and delighted to be able to combine business with the pleasure of seeing the level of such high quality dairy cattle. Interestingly many dairy farmers still enquire about acquiring additional land to enable them to expand. This bodes well for the industry as a whole and demonstrates that there is faith in the future. The demand for land remains insatiable!"
Richard Nocton went on to say "we look forward to welcoming as many farmers, advisors and other professionals as possible to our stand at the 30th Dairy Show on Wednesday 6th October 2010 but we are always available for advice and help throughout the year". |
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Residential Property selling well. Now is a good time to be marketing your house....
Could now be a good moment to consider a property move? Yes may prices have fallen by as much as 25% since August 2007. However the reality of this in the majority of cases is that prices are back to the level they were at in early 2006. There is now a strong demand for property and the market has stabilised.
The gap has closed, the opportunity for buyers to move up market to the house they always dreamed of but was out of reach is now reality. A strong stable market is what is need for a period to allow people to plan and move house freely.
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Prices soften, but good sales abound
Hard work, patience and a profound knowledge of the market have all proved their worth for the specialist Farm & Rural Agency of Woolley & Wallis, based in Salisbury but covering the whole of the South West, the Farm Agency has scored some notable successes recently despite the doom and gloom being portrayed all around. |
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Chairman of CAAV
Richard Sharland, a Partner of Woolley & Wallis based in the Salisbury office, has been elected by his fellow peers as the Chairman of the Hants Wilts & Dorset branch of the Central Association of Agricultural Valuers. The CAAV is a national specialist professional body representing over 2,000 members. The CAAV members are agricultural rural valuers who provide professional advice and valuation expertise on issues affecting the countryside from tenancy matters to sales and purchases of farms and land, from taxation and compulsory purchase to auctioneering, from conservation issues to farming structures. Richard Sharland also acts as an agricultural arbitrator and has for a number of years been on the Lord Chancellor’s Panel of Agricultural Arbitrators. Richard is also heavily involved on behalf of land owners on the promotion of strategic land development throughout the South of England. |
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