Shenfield and Hutton Estate Agent, Russell Quirk’s family have been estate agents locally since the 1950’s – his grandfather Albert F. Quirk founded Quirk & Partners which grew across Essex during the 1970’s and 1980’s to become the county’s largest independent agency. 

“I’ve run traditional estate agency businesses and, for ten years, one of the UK’s largest online estate agencies which was based here, in Brentwood. In my 25+ years working within the estate agency industry I’ve valued, marketed, sold and rented thousands of homes.

I was a Brentwood Councillor for 8 years until 2015 and Chairman of Brentwood’s Planning Committee and Chairman of the Council’s Asset Committee with responsibility for all publicly owned land and buildings in the borough. As a property expert, I also now advise senior politicians on housing policy and in 2018 wrote ‘Help to Build – Solving the UK Housing Crisis’. This plan has now been adopted as ‘Housing for London’ (HfL) by Shaun Bailey, the 2020 Conservative candidate for London Mayor”.