Inverness and Moray businessman receives lifetime achievement award
An Inverness and Moray businessman has received a lifetime award for his dedication to a UK-wide letting and estate agents.
Belvoir’s very first franchisee, Andy Campbell, who owns offices in Moray and Inverness, has been awarded the prestigious Belvoir Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of 27 highly successful years in business.
Reflecting on his long and successful career, Mr Campbell said: “When I retired from the RAF, I was looking for a new opportunity and saw an advertisement for Belvoir in one of the military resettlement magazines.
"I’d rented many properties in the past and was never impressed with the service I’d received from agents, so I thought it was something that I could improve upon.
“Mike Goddard, who started Belvoir and was also an ex-military man, was running the business from his own home in Lincolnshire and I had to go to his house for my training!
"I built Belvoir Moray up from nothing. I initially worked from a spare room in my own home, with only a chair, a desk, computer and a filing cabinet!
"The business soon got too big for this, so I found an office in a nearby town and then bought out a small company in Elgin, took on a staff member, and the business took off. I bought our existing premises in 2006 and today we’re one of the biggest agents in Moray."
Mr Campbell explained that he would not have been able to do what he has without a great team behind him.
He added: “We are now a team of nine and many of the staff have been with me for years, including office manager Lynn Roger, who has worked here for 20 years. Without such a great team it would not be possible to do this job. I was considering retiring, but then we were offered two separate opportunities to manage large portfolios and I decided to forget about retiring and expand the business!
"My son Steven came on board and is running the Inverness office, which we bought out in February 2022, and my daughter Emma is now working at the Elgin office, which is great.
“Being part of the Belvoir franchise has given me the support and back up of a national organisation, together with the freedom of being self-employed. It’s also fantastic to have access to the support of fellow franchisees. I’m delighted to have won the Belvoir Lifetime Achievement Award and I’m looking forward to the future.”
