Property agency makes senior promotions

Mairéad Gethings and Ian Mitchell

FHP Property Consultants has announced the promotion of two members of its professional services team in Nottingham.

The leading property consultancy has promoted Mairéad Gethings and Ian Mitchell to associate director.

Gethings joined FHP in 2016 as a graduate surveyor, having previously worked for the company’s sister firm, FHP Living.

She said: “To be promoted to associate director is a proud achievement. I was grateful to be given the opportunity to undertake work experience at FHP whilst studying at university and the business has continued to support my professional development. FHP has a great ethos and working environment that I am privileged to be a part of.”

Mitchell is a former business rates manager at Nottingham City Council, where he was responsible for the collection of around £130m a year in business rates.

He previously worked at the Valuation Office Agency in the London Borough of Greenwich and provided technical rates assistance at Southend-on-Sea Borough Council, before joining FHP in 2017, where he specialises in reducing clients’ business rates liabilities.

He said: “Moving from local authority to the private sector has been hugely positive for me. FHP is a great company to work for and it’s particularly rewarding to be in a position to help businesses at a time when a lot of them are finding the financial environment a challenge.”

FHP director, Alastair Fearn, said: “Mairéad and Ian are both great to work with and in different ways have made great contributions and responded fantastically to the challenges of the past 18 months. This promotion reflects not only the contribution that Mairéad and Ian make to the FHP Team but is also a reflection of the quality of their work.”

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