01/04/2026
๐ฅณ๐ HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US! ๐ฅณ๐ ITS NO APRIL FOOLโSโฆ. ITS OUR 97TH BIRTHDAY TODAY!
We hope you join us in celebrating this achievement and reminiscing on all the years working in property and how Walton and Hipkiss came to be. ๐ฅฐ
When Albert Hipkiss opened a small Hagley Road Estate Agents in Stourbridge on April Foolโs Day 1929, little did he know it would still be going strong 97 years on. ๐ผ๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ฉ ๐๐จ ๐ฃ๐ค ๐๐ค๐ ๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐ฉ ๐๐ฉ ๐๐๐จ ๐ฃ๐ค๐ฌ ๐๐ง๐ค๐ฌ๐ฃ ๐๐ฃ๐ฉ๐ค ๐ ๐๐ช๐๐๐ก๐ฎ ๐จ๐ช๐๐๐๐จ๐จ๐๐ช๐ก ๐๐๐ข๐๐ก๐ฎ ๐ง๐ช๐ฃ ๐๐ช๐จ๐๐ฃ๐๐จ๐จ ๐ฌ๐๐ฉ๐ ๐ค๐๐๐๐๐๐จ ๐๐ฃ ๐๐ฉ๐ค๐ช๐ง๐๐ง๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐๐ก๐๐ฎ ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ง๐ข๐๐ฃ๐จ๐ฉ๐๐ง! ๐We also now have the 4th generation of the Hipkiss family working in our busy lettings team.๐
When our first office opened on 1st April 1929 at 13 Hagley Road, Stourbridge, both the date and the street number were and still are significant. After all, very few people would choose such a date as April foolโs day to set up a business and in an office with the unlucky number 13 in the address. This was the result of a dare, gladly taken up by the two partners, who fortunately were not overly superstitious.
Despite the inauspicious omens, Walton & Hipkiss Estate Agents is still thriving 97 years on. Seeing many changes throughout the years, the business has grown with both technology and the property market demands. In 1929, the average price of property in the Stourbridge area was in the region of ยฃ500.
Albert Hipkiss founded the company in 1929 with then partner James Walton. Passed through the generations, Albert left the family run business to his son, John Hipkiss, who was responsible for opening the Hagley Office in 1981.
With the ever-growing business expanding into Hagley, Andrew Hipkiss took over the company in 2006, who continues to grow the organisation opening an office in Kidderminster in 2016 which is not the first time we have been in Kidderminster.
Before operations were moved to Hagley, in 1950 we opened an office in Coventry Street in Kidderminster and in 1961 we moved to Bridge Street, which in a nostalgic twist is located next door to our current office! Our Kidderminster office are celebrating 10 years being back in Kidderminster this year!
Walton & Hipkiss are now proud to boast a variety of services including residential sales, lettings, commercial, land, block management and new homes