Investment launches an estate agency with big ambitions

Venturian Investment & Funding group, a Yorkshire-based private office, has launched a new property business in Huddersfield.

The group, which was established in 2015, says it has been wanting to grow further in the domestic, commercial, property management and maintenance and rental arenas.

Its new property venture is called Home & Manor Ltd and will focus on sales, lettings and property management across residential and commercial property.

Initially intended to be Yorkshire-centric, Home & Manor has much wider aspirations, says co-founder Kelly Day.

She added: “Our intention is to grow rapidly within our initial Kirklees focus areas and progressively expand to other areas.

“Our agency will be enabled by technology and data in a far more sophisticated way to the current estate agency market standard approach.

“We see this as giving us the tools to best serve our customers and to also map the areas where we can expand our business at speed.”

Day has more than 20 years’ experience in estate agency and property management.

She added: “This has taken shape rapidly with Venturian quickly seeing the potential. I’m delighted to be working with them not only to consolidate our position in Kirklees, but to expedite our plans for regional and national expansion in our fields of expertise.”

Greg Allsopp, investment director at Venturian, said: “Home & Manor’s ambitions to become technology led regional force in the property and property management marketplace is extremely exciting in an interesting marketplace.

“We have been looking for an agency business for a while. Kelly brought us a compelling product combining the principles Kelly has set with our desire to have the business focused on using technology and analytics at its core.

“We see this as providing some clear points of difference for the business for its customers, but also the platform for the quick growth of the business.”