BUSH
Group Limited
Acquisition Agents . Property Consultants
Established 1934
The foundations of Bush Group were laid in May 1934 when Eric S Bush, the father of the current chairman opened an estate agency in Norwich and built a successful and highly reputed family business. The last 80 years have seen the company expand into other sectors of the property market, offering a range of professional services covering both residential and commercial property.
The estate agency practice was sold to General Accident in 1989 and in 2012 the property management subsidiary (Bush Management) was acquired by Leaders leaving the directors to concentrate on the expansion of the property development and investment side of the company.
DAVID R BUSH
Chairman
Eldest son of the founder. David qualified as a Chartered Surveyor in 1963 at the age of 20 and specialised in surveying and valuation work before taking over the running of the property management business. He also founded the Norwich and District Association of Estate Agents. David has acted for numerous investor landlords in building "Buy to Let" portfolios. A prominent local cricketer and footballer in younger days, other hobbies include boating and fishing.
Darren J BUSH BSc (Hons) MRICS
Managing Director
Son of the Chairman and grandson of the founder Darren completed a degree in Estate Management before qualifying as a Chartered Surveyor in 2001. He gained wide ranging experience across the property sector with several leading London surveying firms before specialising in all aspects of residential property valuation, latterly with the long established firm of Cluttons LLP, based in the West End of London. In 2010 Darren returned to Norfolk in order to join the family business, thereby taking it into a third generation.
LYNETTE M. KUBALE BA (Hons)
Director
Daughter of the Chairman. Degree in modern languages from Bristol University. Prior to starting a family, Lynette worked in London as Group Head of Training at Incisive Media where she oversaw the delivery of financial training events across Europe, Asia and America.
NORMA E. BUSH
Director and Company Secretary
Wife of Chairman and worked as personal secretary in the survey and valuation department of Eric S Bush before leaving to raise a family. She later returned as Company Secretary to both Bush Management and its parent company Bush Group.
WHAT WE DO
The company has been involved in a variety of new build and conversion and renovation projects over the years. Just after the war a pair of Georgian houses in Princes Street, Norwich were acquired and converted into offices, one of which was retained and used for its estate agency business. Various Victorian terrace houses have been modernised and an old motorcycle showroom on Upper King Street in Norwich city centre was transformed into modern office accommodation and later sold as an investment.
Bush Group's new build projects have ranged from residential bungalows on the Norfolk coast to commercial properties and residential flats and houses in the centre of Norwich. These projects include one in Fishergate where offices, flats and houses with river frontage and moorings were built and at the other end more offices with luxury apartments above.
Bittern Lodge, Old Dairy Loke
Long Stratton, Norfolk
The Bittern is one of the rarest breeding birds in the UK and the Norfolk Broads are its habitat.
Elusive and well camouflaged, th...
Bridge Court
Fishergate, Norwich
The redevelopment of a former riverside factory, standing on the site of an ancient Saxon settlement, close to Fye Bridge in Norwich. Undertaken duri...
Whitefriars House
Fishergate, Norwich
The redevelopment of a riverside site to the eastern end of Fishergate, directly overlooking Whitefriars Bridge. Undertaken during the 1980's the sch...
Harwood Road
Norwich
A 3-bedroom ex local authority house situated in the Old Lakenham area of Norwich, and acquired in spring 2013.
The property was e...
Knowsley Road
Norwich
A traditional Victorian 2-bedroom mid-terraced house north of Norwich City Centre, acquired spring 2013. Whilst structurally sound, internally the ho...
1 & 2 Church Cottages
Freethorpe, Norfolk
A site comprising of a pair of derelict semi-detached Victorian cottages in approximately 0.5 acre plot, acquired during summer 2013. The property oc...
Meadow Lodge
Bunwell, Norfolk
An attractive garden plot situated overlooking meadows to the rear.
The plot was purchased in the summer of 2013 with the benefit ...
Orchard House
Tasburgh, Norfolk
Comprising a site of approximately 0.25 acres with planning consent for a detached house of approximately 1,750 sq ft, this plot was acquired spring ...
Churchfields
Wreningham, Norfolk
A small development of three individually designed 4-bedroom houses with large gardens backing onto farmland, within a sought after village location ...