Welcome to Cole Flatt & Partners

Berkhamsted has a wide selection of properties in age, size and location. The market for houses in the town has remained consistently strong due to excellent road and rail links, and the Berkhamsted School and other excellent schools.

Since the opening of the A41 bypass, the town has been rejuvenated. The High Street is now home to many boutique shops and eateries as well as a vibrant Saturday market. Both Tesco and Waitrose supermarkets have outlets in the town.

Our Berkhamsted staff are able to combine an in depth knowledge of the area with considerable experience in the marketing of properties spread across a broad price band. The office regularly deals with properties fetching over £1 million which require a particular approach to marketing with high quality, full colour brochures, floor plans and a breadth of advertising, both local and national on which we are able to advise.

Adrian Cole has lived in the area for most of his life. He was for many years, a partner with Brown & Merry where he qualified as a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. His experience is broad-based covering residential agency, surveying, rural practice and, latterly new homes and development. He is the fifth generation of his family to be involved in land agency. His ancestor, William Brown commenced in Tring in 1832. Over the years he has been active in the community as Town Councillor, Mayor and as a County Councillor. He has also been much involved in the sale of a large number of Country Houses and Farms in the Chiltern Hills as well  as significant development opportunities. His broad experience brings strength to the practice.

Barnaby Cole (Associate)

Associate of Berkhamsted Office

Barnaby is the son of Adrian Cole, and has been involved in the partnership for 14 years.  He started with the practice in 1995 and then moved to the Berkhamsted office. Barnaby plays a significant role in the office with his local knowledge of properties.  Barnaby appeals to a wide variety of our clients as being genuine, polite and hard working.

Jill Collinge

Senior Sales Consultant

Jill joined the company in 1998 and has brought a professional, refreshing and honest approach to Estate Agency. She lives locally in Tring and has an extensive knowledge of the surrounding area and its residents.

LSS Properties a well established lettings department run by Lisa Swales for the last ten years which oppertates from the Berkhamsted office of Cole Flatt. Covering  an extensive area from Kings Langley in the east to the fringes of Aylesbury, including all the towns and villages in between. At any one time, there is a broad range of rental properties available, from studio apartments to country houses and estates.

The lettings department offers a buy-to-let service for landlords and also sources properties for prospective tenants who have special needs and requirements.

Moving is a busy and exciting time and we’re here to make sure the experience goes as smoothly as possible by giving you all the help you need under one roof. The company has always used computer and internet technology, but the company’s biggest strength is the genuinely warm, friendly and professional approach that we offer to our clients. Our record of success has been built
upon a single-minded desire to provide our clients, with a top class personal service delivered by highly motivated and trained staff. A sign of this success is the fact that a large proportion of our business is from referrals, satisfied Clients who have recommended us to friends and family.

Living in flourishing Chesham
Chesham is a former Market Town located in the Chess Valley, surrounded by the rolling countryside of the Chiltern Hill.
Chesham has a rich history extending over a thousand years, inhabitants include Celts, Romans and Saxons. The 19th Century industry flourished including the renowned water cress beds and the worlds largest leather works started here in the 1740’s. The River Chess is a chalk-stream which rises from springs, along the Pednor Vale and the Vale, before it becomes a tributary of the River Colne.

Shopping and Leisure
Chesham has a pedestrianised High Street and Market Square with a range of comprehensive shops, pubs, cafes as well as Sainsburys and Waitrose. The town is surrounded by open countryside and hilltop villages providing country walks and bridleways. There are two public swimming pools in the town: an open air pool in Waterside, and a roofed pool (and leisure centre) at the top of White Hill. Chesham United FC are a popular non-league side.

Schools
Chesham is well served with Primary, Secondary and Independent schools including Chesham Preparatory School, Elmtree First School, Little Springs Primary School, Ley Hill School, Newtown Nursery Infant School. Thomas Harding Junior School (named after the martyr Thomas Harding), Chesham Park Community College and Chesham High Scholl the co-education grammar school. Chesham is also in the catchment area of Dr Challoners boys and girls grammar school’s in Amersham and Little Chalfont respectively.

Transport Links
The Metropolitan Line railway station operates to Baker Street. There are also services to Marylebone and Euston from neighbouring towns. Access to the M1, M4, M40 and the national motorway network via Junction 18 of the M25 at Chorleywood or via the A41 at Boxmoor or Berkhamsted joining the M25 at Junction 20.

Property
Although many people have never heard of the market town of Chesham in the Chiltern Hills, they have probably seen it on television. It has been the prime location for the ‘Inspector Morse’ series and, more recently, episodes of ‘Midsummer Murders’ were filmed there. It is probably its quaintness that attracts TV directors. The town has appeared on the Halifax’s ‘Hidden Gem’ list of the top ten best-value property locations in the UK. Chesham comprises a mixture of old and new properties from apartments, Victorian, Edwardian terrace and semi-detached cottages to detached family homes and substantial country house.

Simon Lambert

Simon has worked in Chesham and the surrounding area for more than 21 years, having started in 1987 with Christopher Rowland and since with both Hamptons and Savills, joining forces with Cole Flatt in October 2008. He has become well known in the town and surrounding villages over that period and brings a wealth of knowledge and experience and will continue to network and sell within this area of Buckinghamshire and neighboring Hertfordshire.

Jan McGibbon

An experienced negotiator who started out with Hamptons International in the Beaconsfield Office in 1997, progressing onto the Training Department in 1999 in Maidenhead then subsequently working for  Christopher Rowland/Savills , initially starting up in the newly acquired Amersham office in 2002 before transferring across to the Chesham Office in 2003.   Her knowledge and background in I.T. and training sales staff has been invaluable in providing a good service to our customers and clients.

Bonnie Cole

Zita McIntosh

Has worked in the Chesham office for 11 years as a part time negotiator and has lived in the Great Missenden area for the past 24 years. She is a keen tennis player and knows Chesham well and is a great help to people new to the area with her boundless knowledge about shops, schools and facilities.

Elaine Bamford our Lettings and Property Manager has over 25 years experience in Residential Property Management in Central London and in the local district.  Elaine has lived in Chesham for 11 years, is a local councillor, and has worked in the local residential lettings market for the past 6 years.

Ensures that all office administration is kept up to date in order to enable the sales team to work at the fasted and most efficient manner possible.  Her role is to provide vital office/client support within the busy office environment.