Mark Warren

Sales and Marketing Director

Mark Warren started as a journalist in Fleet Street which he found extremely interesting he attended the Hyde Park and Regents Park bombings and dealt with a wide range of breaking news stories but he was offered an opportunity in Estate Agency and realised there was as much truth in estate agents details as some tabloid stories!

From London he moved to The Cotswolds and then to Bristol where he was a key member of an Insurance backed estate agency -however he realised he was not cut out for the corporate life Board Meetings bored him and he preferred to be meeting clients.. He acquired part of the business and was involved in investment acquisition before Buy-to-Let existed. At one point Mark was running a a department handling 35,000 rental units across the UK. In 1999 an Investor client recommended he worked with a mortgage brokers - a move which surprised him - however he respected the persons judgement and for 12 years he worked as a top broker whilst still running a property acquisition business. At the same time working with Legal and General he became more interested in estate planning and asset protection. The mortgage brokerage was sold and one of the directors asked Mark to help him find investment property and then development sites and other investors and landowners became involved, They built over 70 units. In 2020 the building side ran into serious difficulties and Mark suffered a massive set back but along with some investors looked at the good parts of what had been achieved and what they were good at and the decision was made to roll back to the pre building phase and concentrate on property finding, funding, development and Investment through Strategic Trading with Mark acting as a consultant. At the same time he wanted to establish an Estate Planning side as he felt that many estate planning companies and solicitors were misleading clients by selling products with hidden profits that were not being fully disclosed to the clients.

The core clients for Strategic are property owners in their late 60's upwards keen to preserve and protect their assets now and in the future.

Andrew Emmerson

Operations Director

Andrew  has been involved with Mark for many years and was one of the team of investors who acted to salvage things from 2020. He is a director of both Strategic Trading and Strategic Estate Planning and provides the back office and system control to the companies

Will Appelby

Property Investor Bristol

A breath of fresh air! I was getting sooo confused about the options and then met Mark who advised me what I needed to do and who I needed to speak to.

Now recommended to friends and family

David Barker

Land Owner

In this day and age great to meet somebody who clearly enjoys their work and who has extremely useful connections

Terri Smith

Single mother

Mark gave me the solutions to my problems and helped me complete all the paperwork and was happy to drop by for face to face meetings when I was struggling