Savills in Chelmsford is celebrating after one of its team members passed important exams. Willoughby Mason of Savills Chelmsford and sat the Central Association of Agricultural Valuers (CAAV) exams in November and passed with flying colours.

Will Gray of Savills Cambridge also passed.

Michael Horton, head of Rural Practice for Savills Eastern region, comments: “I am very pleased that Willoughby and Will have passed their exams.

"This is the result of hard work and dedication from both of them. They already work within varied and skilled teams and I am pleased both now have their relevant qualifications as we cannot grow our business without the development of our colleagues.”

CAAV is a specialist professional body representing, qualifying and briefing over 2600 members practising in a diverse range of agricultural and rural work throughout England, Wales and Scotland.

CAAV members are agricultural and rural valuers who provide professional advice and valuation expertise on issues affecting the countryside from tenancy matters to sales and purchase of farms and land, from taxation and compulsory purchase to auctioneering, from conservation issues to farming structures.