Sophie Fosse
Managing director
Still values houses on Wednesdays. Lansdown, Lacock and anything granite in Mousehole tend to land on her desk.
The firm
Still the office that answers its own phone.
One office, on Billington Road in Leighton Buzzard. The phone is answered there.
ZDZ Limited works from Unit 11, Collec Depot, Billington Road, Leighton Buzzard LU7 9HH. Call 07816 965 652 or email info@zdzproperties.co.uk. If you get a queue, something has gone wrong and we would like to hear about it.
We take fewer instructions than we are offered. It keeps the board on a house meaningful. A ZDZ board means the price was argued over in the office, the photographs were booked, and someone who can make a decision will pick up when the buyer’s solicitor calls.
The people who answer
Helen Cartwright
Sales director
Clifton, Redland, Cotham and the downs. Joined in 2009 from a national firm and stayed because the patch is small enough to know.
Jonathan Adeyemi
Sales
Looks after the London instructions from the Leighton Buzzard office. He will say if a street is outside what he will drive.
Morag Lennox
Sales
New Town, Stockbridge, Trinity. Home reports, closing dates, and a low tolerance for English agents who guess at LBTT.
Tom Riddell
Sales
Didsbury, Chorlton, Heaton Moor and the warehouse flats. He will tell you if the lease is the problem before your solicitor does.
Aisha Rahman
Lettings director
Lettings, from the same desk. She trained beside a surveyor, which is why the inventories are long and the deposit disputes are short.
Chris Daley
Photographer
Tuesdays and Fridays. Not on a portal’s rota. If the weather is wrong he will say so and come back.
Ruth Okoye
Compliance and client money
The reason the accountants like us. Identity checks, the client account, and the complaints file if we ever deserve one.
Plus the Saturday staff, and the person who keeps the Billington Road diary. If you need a name before you visit, ask. We do not rotate you through a call centre.