Richard Hardy, co-founder of Coventry-based agency Bromwich Hardy, is retiring after 50 years in the business.
Hardy, who started work in October 1971 as a trainee surveyor at GH Bayley & Sons in Cheltenham, set up Bromwich Hardy 13 years ago with Tom Bromwich. He will remain as a consultant to the business.
After training at GH Bayley, Hardy move to London to work for Watney Mann and Truman’s brewers as an estates surveyor. He qualified as a chartered surveyor in 1976 and subsequently returned to the Midlands, joining John Staite & Sons as assistant to the senior partner, Stephen Evans, rising through the ranks to becoming an equity partner in 1984.
“I have been lucky to meet some wonderful people and work with fantastic colleagues during every stage of my career,” said Hardy. “But the period since Tom and I founded Bromwich Hardy in 2008 has been a real highlight – and provided some of the happiest and most successful of times, even though we have had the financial crisis and Covid to negotiate. We started as a small agency with just five people and now have a team of 15 which consistently tops the deals tables and ranks alongside, and often above, the big national agencies.”
Bromwich added: “Richard is not just one of the most knowledgeable and trusted professionals I have ever worked with, he is a gentleman through and through.
“I have been fortunate not only to count Richard as a trusted business partner, from whom I have learned a huge amount, but also as a friend. His wisdom and integrity are second to none and have been fundamental in shaping the way Bromwich Hardy does business. It is good to know that we can still call on that knowledge on a consultancy basis.”
To send feedback, e-mail samantha.mcclary@eg.co.uk or tweet @samanthamcclary or @EGPropertyNews
