The Moving Portal has announced the appointment of Mark Snape as its first chief growth officer.
The surveying and valuation panel business operates a panel of RICS Chartered Surveyor firms through England, Wales and Northern Ireland, providing clients of mortgage advisers, IFAs, estate agents and solicitors access to a range of surveying products, including Homebuyers’ Reports, Building Surveys, Independent Valuations and Specialist reports including Structural Engineers’, electrical, Japanese knotweed, amongst a number of others.
Snape (pictured) will be responsible for driving business expansion from the full range of existing and new introducing firms who use The Moving Portal for their clients’ survey, valuation and specialist report needs.
Joining the business with over 40 years’ experience covering high-profile senior positions across the UK property, mortgage and lending sector, Snape will be working to highlight The Moving Portal’s proposition to a wider range of professional firms who can introduce surveying and valuation services to their client base.
Most recently CEO of conveyancing portal, Conveyancing Alliance Ltd/Broker Conveyancing, Snape was also CEO of Cavendish Legal Group and has held many other senior management roles
He said: “It’s very pleasing for me personally to be joining The Moving Portal in order to help it broaden its reach, and to ensure many more professionals are aware of the fantastic array of surveying and valuation products and services we can offer. Plus they will also benefit from being looked after by a team who leave no stone unturned in terms of wanting to help firms and the clients they introduce.
“Essentially, with this new role, I’m on a mission to replicate the extraordinary growth we were able to achieve at CAL/Broker Conveyancing, making The Moving Portal much more widely known, and to help introducing firms – whether mortgage advisers or IFAs or estate agents or others – understand the benefits in using us for surveys, valuations and other specialist reports.
“Not just in terms of the peace of mind and clarity it can give to clients in terms of understanding their properties but also the additional income stream that using us can offer, and deliver to their bottom line.
“I’ve done this most recently with conveyancing, and I see the same opportunity here for all firms who advise clients in the property and legal space, helping them add a further service string to their bow and to ensure these client needs are not left unfulfilled.
“2025 promises to be a very fruitful year for all stakeholders, and I’m looking forward to being out and about, spreading details of our proposition and educating firms on the opportunity that exists for them via The Moving Portal.”
Eliot Young, co-founder and director at The Moving Portal, added: “We’re very pleased to be welcoming someone with the breadth of experience, knowledge and success that Mark brings in a newly-created role we believe will help establish our business and products with a growing number of introducing firms.
“The Moving Portal is already the first port of call for many advisory, agent and solicitor firms seeking surveys, valuations and other products for their clientele, but with Mark on board, we believe we can establish an even stronger business foothold in these sectors and help a wider range of firms understand the benefits for them in working with us.
“We are all very excited about Mark’s involvement and are looking forward to delivering further benefits to all our customers in 2025 and beyond.”
