Meet director Mark Treadwell, who heads up Sheldon Bosley Knight’s very busy commercial department.
When he’s not doing the day job Mark, loves spending time with his family, can often be found at the gym or hitting the road on his motorbike.
What is your role and what does your job entail?
I head up the commercial department. We carry out all facets of commercial property practice including agency, property management, professional services, RICS valuations and business sales. So, we are a real “firm, within a firm”. My role is enabling those within the team to do their respective jobs to the best of their ability. There is no typical day and that’s the beauty of it and why I enjoy it so much. On any given day, I could be carrying out a RICS Red Book Valuation, working on a rent review, helping our apprentice with her APC (the RICS assessment of professional competence) or dealing with any myriad of business management matters.
What did you do before joining Sheldon Bosley Knight?
I was a valuer for Loveitts in Coventry for five years so I am happy to be working with former colleagues again!
How did you get into the property industry and how long have you worked within it?
I started in the building trade selling civil engineering materials, before moving to residential property management. I then took formal qualifications to become a chartered surveyor. This started in about 1998.
What attracted you to working for Sheldon Bosley Knight?
The chance to step up to management level and recruit a commercial department around my own ideas.
What’s the best bit about your job?
Seeing the well-earned success by those in my team (we are Sheldon Bosley Knight’s number one team) and in particular I am looking forward to when our apprentice passes her course this summer. Somewhat worryingly I now have T shirts older than some of my team, which I find preposterous because in my head I am the same age as them and still only 27!
What qualifications or training do you need to do this job?
MRICS and Registered Valuer (plus, at times, weapons grade patience).
What motivates you to work hard?
The desire to get the details right, from the small stuff to the big picture and giving clients the right advice at the right time.
Who or what inspires you?
To provide a safe, fulfilling environment for my family, to be a behavioural role model for my daughter to “do the right thing” and at work, provide my colleagues with a platform to excel.
What are your career goals?
In recent years it is through the achievement of my team and the wider firm. I take great satisfaction from helping ambitious younger colleagues who are training to be the qualified professionals of the future.
What do you do when you are not at work?
Weekends are spent taking my daughter swimming (at nine years old she is significantly faster than me now!) at the gym or out on my motorbike – Ducati Panigale to be precise!
What is the best piece of career advice you have ever been given?
The finance director of the first firm I worked at said: “Mark, a sale is not a sale until it is paid for”, that and the old cliché about find something you enjoy and you will never work a day in your life. After the last six years I can attest the latter is definitely true.
