The Property Centre raise over £20,000 for charity in 2022

In celebration of The Property Centre’s 25th year in business, the team decided to mark the milestone by donating £25 to charity for every new property they instructed that went on to complete or let before the end of 2022.

The grand total has been announced and The Property Centre has raised £20,025, which is being split equally between four local charities. 

With five branches based in Gloucester, The Property Centre chose to donate to the Chamwell Centre, which enables pupils of The Milestone School and SAND Academy, along with children, young people and adults throughout Gloucestershire to overcome disability.

The Chamwell Centre enhances the well-being of those with a disability, how they feel, how they function on a personal and social level, and how they feel about their lives as a whole.

In Cheltenham, The Property Centre is donating to National Star. This provider enables young people with disabilities to realise their potential through education and personalised learning opportunities as well as providing other transition and accommodation services.


The college offers programmes tailored to meet individual aspirations and abilities, with a strong emphasis on creative and performing arts, sports, communication and life skills.

With two branches in Worcester, St Richard’s Hospice was chosen by The Property Centre for this area. This charity cares for people with severe progressive illnesses, whose complex needs cannot be met by other services. These include cancer and neurological, respiratory, cardiac and renal conditions.

The care given by St. Richard’s Hospice improves their quality of life, from diagnosis to treatment to their last days, while supporting their loved ones.

In Stroud, Longfield Community Hospice was selected, a charity for adults in Gloucestershire with a life-limiting illness. Longfield provides free care and support for patients and their loved ones, helping families make the most of their time together.

We also won 10 prestigious industry awards in 2022 in recognition of our commitment to exceptional customer service

In the spring we were awarded gold at The British Property Awards for both sales and lettings in Stroud.  The British Property Awards run mystery shops on every estate agent in the area, against a set of 25 criteria to obtain a balanced overview of their customer service levels. The judging criteria are both comprehensive and detailed exploring different mediums, scenarios and time periods to ensure that agents have been rigorously and fairly judged.

In October, we won Two Best Estate Agent Guide awards - gold for Sales and silver for lettings. The BEAG guide is produced annually by Property Academy which carries out the biggest performance assessment in the estate agency industry to identify the best agencies in the country and we were rated in the top 5% for Sales and the top 10% for lettings.

There are 15,0000 estate agency brands in the UK and The Property Academy judges all agents in an industry-wide mystery shopping exercise based on fixed criteria in order to establish the best agents in the UK, so to win gold and silver was a real achievement.

Later that month, we also won four ESTAS Estate Agency Awards. Based on agents' customer reviews, the ESTAS recognises property professionals who are delivering great service to their clients. Our St John’s branch won Best In County for Worcestershire and bronze in the West Midlands category, Cheltenham won silver for the Southern category, and the Property Centre as a whole won silver for Best Regional Group.

Winning an ESTA means so much as the results are based purely on customer reviews from clients that have experienced outstanding service from their agent.

Lastly, in November, The Property Centre was awarded three prizes at The Negotiator Awards. The Property Centre was announced as the gold winner of the Regional: East and West Midlands Agency of the Year award in recognition of our successful branches located in Worcester. In addition, we also picked up silver in both the Regional: South West Agency of the Year category for our seven branches across Gloucestershire and in the Lettings Agency of the Year category for agencies with 6-20 branches.

Agents are judged by a group of respected professionals with years of experience in the property industry, and winners are selected based on a number of criteria ranging from the growth and development of an agent’s brand to its innovation and the services it offers.