"Their interconnectivity with other firms assisted us because it gives them superior knowledge of what’s going on outside, within the broader market."

"I like dealing with independent agents who have their own practices. They seem more savvy about the advice they provide. I think the effort they put in is greater than the larger practices."

"The benefits to us firstly are that it gives us access to lots of agents throughout the country with local knowledge rather than nationals with local offices. You are getting advice from senior directors with 30+ years’ experience. We have projects elsewhere in the country and they can introduce us to appropriate other local agents which for us is invaluable to the projects. It is all about local knowledge and that is PAI."

"My understanding of PAI is a national grouping of like-minded smaller independent property companies which can provide a good service to clients with the benefit of a national reach. We haven’t benefited from using the organisation as yet but we are familiar with a number of the agents within PAI and I am sure when we come to need some kind of back up from people in other parts of the country we can call someone we already know to make the calls and representations on our behalf. Of course the bigger corporates have wide coverage but sometimes you don’t want to deal with big corporates. "