Two senior agents are joining the Propertymark Qualifications board to bring a combined 64 years of experience.

Jan Hytch – residential and operation partner at Arnold Keys agency – and Katie Griffin, director of west country firm Sawdye and Harris, have been asked to help raise the profile of Propertymark Qualifications.

In 2021, despite the pandemic and lockdowns, over 10,600 Propertymark Qualifications were taken and almost 1,500 individuals won qualifications. 

Hytch is currently Education Adviser to Propertymark and in 2013/14 was President of NAEA Propertymark, when she helped devise and launch the first full-time Further Education college course in UK for young people to become qualified estate and letting agents by the age of 18. Alongside this, she also sits on the TPO Industry Forum, the National Residential Forum for RICS, for which she is an Assoc RICS assessor, and on her home patch, is Chair of the Norwich and District Association of Estate Agents.

Griffin more recently sat as Non-Executive Director on the Propertymark Board, was elected as President of NAEA Propertymark in 2017/2018 and currently sits on the National Advisory Group for The Guild of Property Professionals and is NAEA Propertymark Regional Executive for the West Country.

Tim Green, board chair, comments: “It’s important that we have a great breadth of knowledge across our board, from educational experts to those who know the industry inside and out, so we’re extremely pleased that two well-known practitioners will be joining us on our journey to continue to drive up industry standards even higher.”