About The Wilkinson Partnership Estate Agency

The Wilkinson Story So Far...

John Wilkinson started the Partnership in 1955

In 1955, John Wilkinson joined Larry Connell at the Leighton Buzzard office of Connells where he did his 'articles' and learnt to become a professional estate agent and surveyor. John was instrumental in the expansion of Connells and was the Senior Partner and major shareholder in Connells until 1978. John Wilkinson resigned his senior partnership, and set out to present his own brand of professional estate agency.

John & his partner, Christopher Coles, built 12 offices across 5 counties

He built, with his business partner, Christopher Coles, a network of twelve offices and departments across five counties and the practice was highly respected as an effective, professional organisation specialising in Country Homes. Consequently, as a result of the major changes in the mid 1980's, the practice was approached by major banks, building societies and insurance companies to sell into their own chains of estate agents and, in late 1987, the partnership was sold.

In 1992 Simon Wilkinson joined to make estate agency more personal

Disappointed by the impersonal style of estate agency offered by these major institutions, Simon Wilkinson resigned from a corporate practice in 1992 to join his father in recreating the brand of estate agency that had proved so acceptable to their previous clients.

The Wilkinson Partnership - Key Personnel

John Wilkinson Simon Wilkinson Christopher Coles