HODSONS PROPERTY - Key Persons


Danielle Grice

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Lettings Manager
Danielle has recently joined us as Assistant Lettings Manager. She has a wealth of experience having worked in the lettings industry in and around Wakefield for 10 years. Outside of work, she is a mum/step mum and wife, supporting them at rugby!. Danielle is local to Wakefield and studied at Outwood Grange.

James Clarke MNAEA - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director
  • MARLA - Managing Director
Local to Wakefield, James has handled the sale of a number of the areas most distinctive properties. James is a qualified member of the National Association of Estate Agents and the Association of Residential Lettings Agents. He has built a reputation for providing excellent customer service during a career which spans over 25 years throughout West and North Yorkshire. He has a vast knowledge of the industry from the sale of first time buyer properties, to larger executive homes. He is also trusted by a number of the large builders and developers in the area to advise on development opportunities, pricing and part exchange.

John Tolson

Job Titles:
  • Viewing Assistant

Louise Higginbottom MNAEA

Job Titles:
  • Sales Manager
  • Director - Sales Manager
Louise has worked in the property sales and new homes industry in and around the Wakefield area for over 25 years and is now in her 17th year with Hodsons. She is a qualified member of the National Association of Estate Agents.

Lynne Baker MARLA

Job Titles:
  • Director - Lettings Manager
Lynne has worked in the Estate Agency industry for 30 years of which over 22 years have been with Hodsons Estate Agents, originally employed to work in both Sales and Rentals she has been Lettings Manager for the last 12 years and is a qualified member of ARLA.

Phillip Hodson - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
Educated at QEGS Wakefield and Cambridge University, Phillip built the Oval Insurance Group into a major +£100m turnover national business employing 1200 persons before the business was acquired by A J Gallagher in 2014. Amongst his other business interests is Hodsons Estate Agents Ltd which he established in 1991 with Mark Adams. When Mark emigrated to Canada in 2003 Phillip re-acquired the business. Whilst not involved on a day to day basis he takes a keen interest in both the sales and lettings divisions and he would like to build up a more widely spread regional practice in due course.