The Moving Portal has hired Mark Snape as chief growth officer.

The surveying and valuation panel business operates Rics chartered surveyor firms in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

The firms provide 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 joins the newly-created role where he 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.

Snape has over 40 years’ experience in high-profile senior positions across the UK property, mortgage and lending sector, most recently as chief executive officer of conveyancing portal, Conveyancing Alliance Ltd/Broker Conveyancing. He has also been chief executive of Cavendish Legal Group and has held many other senior management roles. 

Snape will work closely with The Moving Portal’s business development, sales and operation teams to deliver business growth, highlighting the highest level of service available, the product range, the breadth of surveyors, and income potential to introducing businesses who want to ensure their clients have access to the best in the marketplace.

He says: “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.”

The Moving Portal co-founder and director Eliot Young says: “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.”