Sherry FitzGerald

Despite the economic difficulties of the 1980’s, the company recruited for the future by forming a team of young property professionals who shared a common vision of a new type of auctioneering company. From the start, we practiced a strong gender balance philosophy, a philosophy we have continued to practice to this day. Our Chairman, Mark FitzGerald has recently joined a Government group, Better Balance for Business, to examine why so few women have senior positions in business. (August 2018)

We understood the absolute prerequisite to have a strong ethical foundation, combined with a sense of unparalleled customer service. With this in mind, we introduced a strict rule of not allowing anyone in the company to buy a second-hand house off our own books. We also introduced opening 7 days a week into what had traditionally been a ‘9.30 – 5.30 & closed for lunch’ industry. Our strapline in those early days was ‘the new generation of estate agents’ which has subsequently evolved into ‘the agent you’d recommend to a friend’.