Diplomatic Service Guide

Hartswood & The Foreign Office

It was late March in 1986 and Michael Thomas had just returned home from Hartswood Tennis Club https://www.hartswoodtennis.co.uk. Looking out of his window at his neighbour’s rather sad and neglected garden he pondered on what to do with his life following his redundancy from a senior management role at the BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk. His friend and neighbour worked for the Foreign Office https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/foreign commonwealth-office, and he had been posted overseas on Diplomatic duties some four months earlier. His house had remained empty ever since and a local Estate Agent had been unsuccessful in trying to find tenants for the property. Later that day Michael called his friend for a catch up. He offered to give the garden a tidy up and his friend joked about how he wished his Estate Agent was as conscientious as his neighbour. Two months later and Hartswood Property Management was born, a rental specialist taking pride in looking after property like a caring neighbour and who’s Landlord’s often became their friends.