Birmingham property agency Davidson Estates has completed the first of what it pledges to be a number of acquisitions with the purchase of Jewellery Quarter sales, letting and management agents Arkade Property.

The acquisition, for an undisclosed sum, is part of founder Ben Davidson’s plans to grow the business he launched in the city centre and Edgbaston in 2012.

The move sees a total of eight staff join Davidson Estates permanently, including two directors as consultants, bringing total staff now to 15 in the firm’s Edgbaston head office and Colmore Row City Centre branch.

Arkade was established by former property solicitor Andrew Kay and Beatriz Rose in 2001. 

Davidson says: “We have been discussing our mutual goals with the directors of Arkade Property, and others, for some time, and I am very pleased that we have been able to complete a deal to bring Arkade into the Davidson group. Davidson Estates is consistently ranked, year on year, in the top 3% of all estate and letting agencies in the UK, and has won the ESTAS award for customer service for 2023/24.”