Draper London, a newly established London estate agent with strong financial backing, has unveiled its expansion plans, aiming to open up to five new London offices over the next three to five years and recruit up to 20 new staff over the next 12-18 months.
Led by Founder & Managing Director Craig Draper, in association with Non-Executive Chairman David Pollock, Draper London was founded in September 2025 with its new W9 head office at 24 Bristol Gardens opened in October 2025.
Draper London is a full service London residential estate agency offering sales, lettings, property management and new homes services, with a Private Clients division led by Craig Draper advising ultra-high-net-worth clients on high value sales, luxury lettings properties and acquisitions including open market and discreet, off market opportunities.
Built on trust, tradition and transparency, Draper London combines senior expertise and deep local knowledge with intelligent marketing, technology, state-of-the-art digital reach and disciplined execution, resulting in consistently strong results for clients.
Draper London has an ethos of treating every property listing as if it was personally owned by one of the team from the agency, regardless of the price point. The firm believes that all listings deserve the very best marketing which is why each instruction benefits from professional high quality photography, including where required drone footage and bespoke videography, smartly presented marketing collateral including accurate floorplans, digital marketing and when appropriate social media, PR/media editorial and direct marketing.
The office at 24 Bristol Gardens is already fully staff with the highly talented team of five recruited from other agents including Knight Frank, Chestertons and Marsh & Parsons. The Bristol Gardens office already has an impressive range of listings, including sales instructions for London properties valued from £300,000 to £30 million, and lettings including dressed, undressed and significant landlord property portfolio listings.
From its W9 base Draper London serves Central, North-West and West London with plans to open up to five new offices over the next three to five years. An office in Hampstead is of serious interest for the brand’s second office in the rollout, with other offices planned for Central, North-West and West London.
Over the next 12-18 months Draper London is looking to recruit up to 20 new staff at all levels of seniority. New recruits will benefit from an attractive remuneration package, good career and progression prospects and new technology, just some of the benefits of working for a dynamic, fast growing agency, with senior people being headhunted to manage and lead the newly formed departments and offices in the pipeline.
Since the opening of the W9 headoffice Draper London has already successfully completed almost £30 million worth of sales deals for clients across Central, North-West and West London. Alongside individual lettings instructions the agency has won, via competitive pitches, two major landlord portfolios including a portfolio of over 20 lettings properties in Maida Vale and another London investment portfolio where Draper London has successfully sold half a dozen properties for the client.
Founder Craig Draper began his career in the London property market in 2007 and, over nearly two decades, has built a reputation as one of the capital’s most successful residential estate agents. Whilst he was at Knight Frank Draper was the youngest Partner at the time in the Marylebone office and was the highest deals agent in the firm. He later served as Partner and Office Head for Knight Frank’s Hampstead office.
Draper London is backed by David Pollock, the highly successful business entrepreneur who served as the Managing Director of multi-office agency Greene & Co, building the business into a Sunday Times award winning agency, Best Small Companies to Work For, prior to its sale to Countrywide PLC. Pollock also starred in a BBCTV series on estate agency and is the author of best-selling property industry book – 101 Things Your Estate Agent Should Tell You.
Craig Draper, Founder & Managing Director of Draper London says: “Draper London is focused on combining the trust, professional dress code, discipline and strong work ethic of traditional estate agency with intelligent technology and strategic digital marketing. Currently in London a new, much younger demographic of households are choosing to live, work and invest in the city and we have aligned our services and offering to meet their real estate needs. Draper London has grown dramatically in just a few months, based on our guiding ethos that every instruction deserves the very best marketing and promotion, regardless of list price. We have bold and exciting expansion plans and see the next few years as a period of huge opportunity for both Draper London and the London real estate market which remains a good long-term investment and an island of stability in an turbulent and uncertain world.”
David Pollock, Non-Executive Chairman of Draper London says: “I am delighted to be playing a role in the growth of Draper London and creating an agency of substance and scale in the London marketplace. We have a clear strategy to expand across the capital, but from the outset this is being done carefully and without compromising standards. Craig Draper and I share a vision and strong belief that whilst estate agency is a people business at its core, the use of advanced technology, data and digital marketing is essential for achieving strong exposure, informed and streamlined decision making and consistently improved outcomes for clients.”