Carter Jonas is a multi-disciplinary property partnership, enabling our clients to realise their goals and aspirations.
Our strategic international partnerships enable us to offer our clients exposure across global markets, including our exclusive affiliation with luxury property specialist Christie’s International Real Estate. Read more here >
We treat every client with integrity, respect and warmth.
Understanding our clients has been the cornerstone of our service for over 170 years, and our products and services have been developed to meet their diverse needs.
We do what we say we will, we do it well and we are accountable.
Carter Jonas clients value expert property advice and tailored portfolio management. Building a lasting, discreet and trusting partnership with each client is at the heart of our business.
We are ambitious for our clients and for our company.
We work with a wide range of people with differing requirements. What they share is a desire to see their property portfolio thrive through intelligent asset management.
Our tailored service has enabled us to forge lasting, effective and trusting partnerships with our clients. These long-standing relationships are our most important and closely protected asset.
From flats to farmland, high streets to healthcare estates, castles to car parks, offices to orangeries and wind farms to wineries, our breadth of client experience is among the most varied in UK property.
We never forget the importance of the people behind the brands, businesses, projects and goals; that’s why some of the biggest property owners have been clients of Carter Jonas since the business started in 1855.
Property is a people business, and our people are one of our most treasured assets. We’re committed to cultivating a place where people want to work, and to helping our people fulfil their full potential through continued learning and development and structured career paths.
Our commitment to being an open and inclusive organisation is at the heart of our People Strategy 2025, and we believe employing a diverse group of people means we embrace different perspectives, ideas and talents to provide a better service for our clients and the communities in which we work.
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Our clear vision is to be the UK property sector’s partner of choice.
We earn that by delivering outstanding results for our clients through best-in-class, multidisciplinary advice, brought to life by our highly engaged people. Our partnership model is central to how we work with owners leading our services and sectors and culture shaping everything we do. This gives clients the combined capability of a national firm, paired with local insight, delivering joined up expertise from across the property lifecycle.
As we deliver Vision 2030, our five-year plan, we will take a disciplined and strategic approach prioritising profitability while continuing to invest strategically in our people, capability and areas that strengthen the business for the long-term. Our balanced operating model, combining transactional work with a resilient stream of recurring income, will remain a key strength providing stability and momentum and ensuring we stay agile and responsive as the market evolves.
We have always had a commitment to our employees, our clients and their surrounding environments.
Since 1855, our people have worked with the natural environment to create more sustainable outcomes for the property and landowners that we serve and for the communities in which we work.
Putting sustainability at the heart of what we do is about strengthening our legacy, ensuring a sustainable future for our clients and our business.
Read moreCarter Jonas was founded in 1855, when John Carter Jonas set himself up as an auctioneer in Cambridge. The firm’s estate management business started when the future Marquess of Lincolnshire appointed John Carter Jonas to run his family estates in Buckinghamshire. Our extensive association with Oxbridge colleges was expanded when the firm took over Castle, Field & Castle in Oxford in 1924. The timeline below outlines the key milestones in our history since then.
John Carter Jonas founds the firm in Cambridge
The first London office opens at Sergeant’s Inn Chambers
We merged with Castle Field & Castle, expanding into Oxford
Merged with Mssrs. Wright & Ward, Ipswich
Following a merger with long-established Yates & Co, we expand in Shifnal and Bridgnorth
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