Award Winning
commercial property solutions
Prop-search.com is a firm of commercial property specialists and chartered surveyors with offices in Northampton, Wellingborough and Milton Keynes covering Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire and the East Midlands.
We specialise in providing holistic advice on commercial property, including general agency (acquiring, letting & selling), development, investment, rating, rent review, valuation, building surveying, building insurance and property management through prop-manage.com.
Traditionally, property agents focus on their client base, giving applicants less attention. We differ in that we focus heavily on applicants and their specific requirements.
The internet has become a favoured medium for searching for commercial property and Prop-Search is focused on making life easier for applicants.
We have staff dedicated to qualifying visitors to our website on a daily basis. We endeavour to contact every person who registers on our website within 48 hours to see if they are interested in an appointment to view – if they are not, then we try and establish what they didn’t like and what they are looking for, so that we can offer alternatives. If we can’t help, we keep in touch.
Our dedicated professional team have over a hundred years of combined regional market experience acting for a wide range of public and private sector clients including investors, developers, major funds, Local Authorities and occupiers
The company was established in September 2008 and within just two and a half years, was recognised by Estates Gazette (EGi) as the Most Active Agent / Deal Maker in Northamptonshire winning the awards in 2011 and then again in 2012 / 2013 / 2014 / 2015 / 2017 / 2018 / 2020 / 2022 & 2023
All our staff are experienced, enthusiastic, innovative and loyal. We pride ourselves on offering clear, accurate, straight forward and honest advice – and we know our market inside out.
Simon started his commercial property career with commercial property consultants Wilson & Partners in 1986. He stayed with the company through its evolution into Connell Wilson, working in London Docklands between 1991 and 1993 and then later (as a Director) heading up the North Northamptonshire region for Lambert Smith Hampton. He joined Underwoods as a Partner in 1998 subsequently founding Prop-search in 2008.
Simon is a Director and Ambassador of Wellingborough & East Northamptonshire Chamber of Commerce (and a former 3 term President), has Chaired the Wellingborough Town Centre Partnership for a number of years (and was instrumental in establishing the Wellingborough Town Centre BID), is a serving member of the Board of Trustees for Nene Rivers Trust CIO and an Envoy for SEMLEP.
Simon specialises in advising on commercial property development, renewable energy solutions, investment and agency.
Ian joined the surveying practice of Lambert Smith Hampton (then Connell Wilson) in 1989 working his way up the corporate ladder to become a Director and Head of its Industrial and Logistics department in Northampton. In 2012 Ian joined Prop-Search as a Director where he jointly heads up the Northampton office.
Ian has over 20 years development consultancy and agency experience and with expert market knowledge, he is able to provide clear pragmatic market driven advice. He deals with a wide range of agency and professional work on behalf of a range of developers, local authorities, institutional fund and occupier clients.
Samantha has detailed knowledge of the UK's commercial property market - amassed over 20+ years - and has played a key role in business space agency (industrial, office, retail and licensed and leisure property). She joined the surveying team practice of Lambert Smith Hampton (then Wilson & Partners and latterly Connell Wilson) in 1988 and prior to joining Prop-Search in 2010 worked for Underwoods. Samantha is also a Director of the Wellingborough Town Centre Partnership.
In 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017 and 2018 she was crowned EGi dealmaker of the year for Northamptonshire, having sold or let more commercial properties than any other agent.
Rosie joined Prop-Search in 2009 and works closely with the Directors in all aspects of the business including assisting in general agency work. She has a strong understanding of the company portfolio, process and services and has a valuable rapport with its clients.
She also works closely with David Robbins on Prop-Manage instructions including rent collection and reconciliation, administration of service charge obligations and preparation of revenue and expense summaries.
Chris joined Underwoods in 2000 as an agency surveyor, having worked in business to business sales for 20 years and building up an enviable working knowledge of the Northamptonshire business community. In recognition of being a key member of the business space team, he was promoted to an Associate Partner in 2006. In 2008, Chris co-founded Prop-Search with Simon Toseland.
Richard started his career as a graduate surveyor in the City office of GVA Grimley (now GVA) in 1999.
In 2004 Richard moved home to Northamptonshire and joined the Industrial and Logistics team at the Northampton office of Lambert Smith Hampton, progressing to Director and played a key role in the development of the business across the region.
In 2012 Richard joined Prop-Search as a Director where he jointly heads up the Northampton office. Richard has significant experience working for local, national and International occupiers, developers and institutional pension funds specialising in investment, development and agency – both disposals and acquisitions.
David started his property career as an assistant surveyor with British Gas, then joined Whitbread as an Estates Manager responsible for the Thresher portfolio and Costa Coffee. In 2002 he became the Estates and Facilities Director for First Quench Retailing Ltd responsible for the portfolio of 2000 trading properties as well as both commercial and residential sub-let estates. In 2006 David was recruited as an interim Estates Manager by the Borough Council of Wellingborough, responsible for substantially increasing rental income through the active management of a number of industrial estates. He joined Prop-Manage in 2011 as Head of Management.
After nearly 20 years working in administration & management Sue moved to Prop-Search.com with the opening of the Northampton office to become office manager. Sue is responsible for the day to day running of the Northampton office including website enquiry management, administration and accounting.
