Founders, Robert Pemberton Richardson and Edward Thomas Wrench, insisted on the highest standards of professional ethics, and that brand of integrity and constant innovation remains today, over 130 years later, through out Richardson & Wrench's coast to coast network.

So, before you make any real estate decisions, phone Richardson & Wrench on +61 2 9299 8177.

ONE of Australia's oldest and best known names in the real estate industry, Richardson and Wrench, began as a business established by Robert Pemberton Richardson in 1858.

The son of an English wool merchant, Richardson has set sail for Australia in 1850 and prior to opening his own office at the corner of George and Jameson Streets, spent seven years with the auctioneers and wool brokers Mort & Company.

Edward Wrench arrived in Sydney in 1852 and before going into partnership with Robert Richardson in 1860, was general manager of the Australian Joint Stock Bank.

Specialising in stock and station sales (although actually engaging in a much broader spread of activity) the partnership prospered, and by 1865 Richardson and Wrench had become the leading real estate agent in the newly established state of New South Wales.

Richardson and Wrench became a public company in 1889, and after the deaths of Wrench and Richardson, in 1893 and 1900 respectively, moved into the twentieth century under the guidance of some very eminent successors.

Managing Director Alec Gregg was elected foundation president of the Real Estate Auctioneers and Agents Council in 1910, a position he held until his death. Richardson and Wrench's tradition of providing both leadership and direction to the real estate profession in Australia continues to this day, and the company's employees are, as ever, heavily involved with the Real Estate Institute of Australia.

Although originally specialising in stock and station sales, it was in real estate that Richardson and Wrench established its high reputation for integrity and professionalism... particularly in the field of sales by public auction. In 1924, the Federal Government appointed Richardson and Wrench as auctioneers for the first land release in Canberra, newly established as the national capital.

Today, Richardson and Wrench constitutes one of Australia's largest property networks, with outlets in most states, serving both the residential and commercial sectors of the market.