| Company History |
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 John
D Wood was founded in 1872 by John Daniel
Wood, a remarkable man who started the company at the age of 23 and
finally retired in 1928. The first premises of the company were in
Mount Street, London W1, on the site now occupied by an island with
a fountain opposite the entrance to the Connaught Hotel. Mount Street
in the late 19th Century was apparently a street of rather dilapidated
Georgian houses which included the Parish Workhouse. It must have
become smarter at the Berkeley Square end as it contained the Coburg
Hotel, quickly renamed Connaught at the outset of the Great War.
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 The
company first advertised in Country Life in the early 1900's, an
arrangement that continues to this day. John
D Wood developed his practice with considerable
success in the post war decade in which his company regularly took
instructions on the finest houses and country estates in the land
and advertised them over the entire back page of The Times. This
era included the sale of Dorchester House, Park Lane, for £400,000
to the McAlpine family who rebuilt it as the Dorchester Hotel.
In 1930 John D Wood and
his then partners moved to headquarters in Berkeley Square where
the firm remained until the late 1980's. Commercial and development
work became an important part of the company's business in the 1950's
and 1960's followed by an important step in the central London residential
field when the Chelsea Green branch opened in 1966.
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 In
1987 the Residential and Agricultural arm of the company was floated
on the London Stock Exchange and in 1997 was acquired by Countrywide
Assured Group plc, the largest estate agency group in Europe.
'The commercial arm of the company now has its' headquarters at
19 Berkeley Street, Mayfair. Our City of London clients are serviced
from our office at Throgmorton Street, EC2.
Our range of services include property investment, asset management,
professional work, retail/office/industrial agency and valuations,
throughout the U.K.' |
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