Former boss of Countrywide’s estate agency business Bob Scarff has become a non-executive director of butters john bee, which has 17 branches in the west midlands and the north.

The appointment is in line with Scarff’s intention to offer his services to a small number of medium-sized agencies, as he revealed in an interview with EYE.

butters john bee has branches in Staffordshire, Cheshire, Shropshire and the west midlands, and has a varied business, with sales, lettings, commercial, chartered surveying and auctioneering.