EWS Chartered Surveyors was formed in 1991 by George Woodward, the firm's Managing Director, and two other chartered surveyors and the company is now owned and run by four directors who, collectively, have over 100 years experience in the East Anglian property market.

Each director heads up a distinct strand of the business - Commercial Agency, Consultancy & Development, Professional Services and Property Management - together with fee-earning staff members and administrative / financial support staff.

Due to expansion, the firm moved in February 2006 to its present office, an attractive listed Georgian building in Lower Brook Street, Ipswich which links the heart of the town centre with Ipswich's major regeneration area, The Waterfront.

EWS enjoys a reputation of 'punching above its weight' in terms of the size and complexity of many of the projects the company is involved in. The firm is small enough to provide its clients with a distinctly personal service yet big enough to take on large and complex jobs. Two of the directors previously worked for the leading national firm, Healey & Baker, now Cushman & Wakefield.

The directors and staff of EWS offer a potent blend of knowledge & experience combined with youthful enthusiasm enabling the firm to provide a comprehensive range of property services to assist, to advise, and to 'add value' in respect of the property interests of its wide range of clients -from private individuals to major plc's - which includes Akzo Nobel (formerly ICI Paints Ltd.), Britannia Building Society, East of England Co-operative Society, Equity Estates plc, Fred. Olsen Group of Companies, HSBC Bank, ISG Jackson Ltd, RG Carter, SEH Group and Suffolk Life plc. (part of L & G).

EWS is a member firm of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors -"the mark of property professionalism worldwide".