Founded by Catherine Goddard in 1997, Goddards is an independent agency situated in ‘Town Rooms’ at the top of the Thoroughfare, near the market square in the town of Halesworth, Suffolk.
We sell, let and manage an extensive range of property and endeavour to provide the highest level of customer service, with friendly, knowledgeable sales and rental staff.
At Goddards we take care to really listen to our customers’ requirements and in many cases our local knowledge can help. We are able to assist clients, newcomers in particular, to identify exactly what they want to achieve by their move, which is quite often a complete change of life-style as well as a change of house.
On the rental side we provide either a tenant-finding service or full management of a property. That means for a one-off fee we will find a tenant, do a credit search and draw up an agreement to comply with increasingly complex legislation. Alternatively we will do all of that as well as overseeing the tenancy from start to finish, collecting the rent and organising any necessary repairs.
Halesworth offers a range of shopping, education, arts and leisure facilities, which include an 18-hole golf course, tennis and bowling club and The Cut Arts Centre.
There is a railway station, which links, via Ipswich, to London’s Liverpool Street station. The A144 runs through Halesworth and provides road links to both Norwich (approximately 25 miles to the North) and Ipswich (about 30 miles to the South). The well-known town of Southwold is some 9 miles east of Halesworth and is considered by many to be the focal point of what is known locally as the Heritage Coastline. This general area includes the Nature Reserves at Walberswick and Minsmere, as well as Aldeburgh, Thorpeness and Woodbridge, further to the south.
If you have a house you would like to sell, are still searching for the right place or if you are interested in renting, we would be very pleased to hear from you.
The Team
Catherine Goddard
Catherine began her career in 1985 when she joined a small, independent estate agency in Woodbridge, where she had grown up, and started to learn her trade. In due course she moved on, working in Stowmarket and Saxmundham before being asked to run the Halesworth branch of Garnham’s, which at that time operated from the town’s Market Square. Later still, Catherine worked in Norwich for a while before returning to Halesworth to open Goddards in 1997.
Deborah Honeker
Deborah has over twelve years experience in estate agency, working in various market towns throughout Suffolk. She has been based in the Halesworth area for the past seven years, utilising her extensive knowledge of the local market to provide market valuations and negotiate sales. Deborah oversees Goddards’ Sales portfolio.
Claire Wells
Claire started her career within the travel industry as a travel consultant and has over ten years experience in sales, customer services, foreign exchange banking and customer relations. Since leaving travel to pursue her career in other areas, she has worked as a data input clerk, project administrator and more recently as an office manager for a local holiday letting company. Claire oversees Goddards’ Rental portfolio.
Anne Withers
Anne has many years’ experience in secretarial and administration roles and has recently joined Goddards having relocated to the area nearly two years ago.
Paula Stephenson
Paula has a love of property, farming and conservation and until recently worked in the holiday letting industry. She is actively involved in both sales and rentals at Goddards.
