An agent who has spent the last 28 years at Chestertons and its earlier incarnations, is now breaking out and starting his own lettings business in London.

Robert Sturges’ agency – called Sturges London – is based on Parsons Green and will offer residential lettings, sales and property management services in the Central and South West London areas with client mandates already in place in areas including Fulham, Knightsbridge, Earls Court, Putney and Battersea.

Sturges’ career began at Foxtons in the early 1990s. He then went to the local Wellingtons agency which sold to Humberts. In turn this merged with Chestertons in 2009. 

Most recently Sturges was sales regional director for Chestertons in different areas of prime London.

“Despite the increasing presence of remote based brokers operating with some success in the area, we felt that a physical presence is still important to a discerning clientele

handing over the responsibility of their primary, or one of their primary, assets to an agency and that this physical onsite presence offers some degree of accountability and

comfort to a client” he says in a launch statement.

He continues: “As every agent who has ever started up their own business states we also plan to offer differentiating levels of service to our sales, lettings and managed clients and

customers – service that all clients should expect but which can slip in the high volume agencies under pressure to hit KPI’s.”

Sturges says he will achieve this “with the recruitment of well remunerated, experienced staff well versed in the high standards that we plan to offer our clients.”

He also pledges to collaborate with other Prime and Central London agents where this benefits clients.