Jess Stevens — one of Europe’s leading property sustainability experts — has joined commercial agents GVA as an associate. She was recently profiled among Building magazine’s “50 sustainability stars”. Stevens was recruited from Investment Property Databank (IPD), where she was responsible for its global sustainability... Read More
A Leeds city centre investment opportunity is expected to generate a high level of interest when it is offered at auction next month. Seven-storey Victoria House is located on the busy Headrow opposite Leeds Museum and less than 400m from Leeds Railway Station. It is a mixed use property comprising let ground floor retail space, 2,357... Read More
The Co-operative Estates — responsible for nearly 8,000 properties across the UK — has named Kris Nayak as its new head of location and portfolio planning. Nayak is being promoted internally after joining the company in March as head of business acquisitions and strategy. In his new role he will be responsible for leading the... Read More
Braemar Estates — the property management division of the Brooks Macdonald Group — has named Diana Turner as the new business development manager at its Cheshire head office. With more than eight years’ experience in the property management sector, she takes up her Hale post after leaving urbanbubble where she led the new... Read More
As temperatures soar, Action House is enjoying a heatwave of its own with the highest number of lots catalogued by a UK auctioneer in a single month for six years. Last week auctions took place in locations as far apart as Cumbria and Devon. By the end of July, 600 residential and commercial properties will have gone under the hammer... Read More
As part of a string of 25 promotions across its UK network the commercial property agent GVA has created seven new directors in a single Midlands’ office. The promotions cover a broad cross range of the company’s business units reflecting, the agency says, the recent confidence upswing in the property market. Christine... Read More
Property advisors Innes England has strengthened its Derby office with the appointment of Stuart Waite as an associate director. Joining from BNP Paribas Real Estate, where he was a member of the industrial and logistics team handling acquisitions, development and disposals for a variety of clients, Waite will be leading the firm’s... Read More
Auction House is midway through a busy month during which the award winning property auctioneer has no fewer than 27 auctions taking place throughout the UK. The hectic schedule began at the National Space Centre on 2 July where Auction House Leicestershire sold 84% of the six lots offered raising a total of over £418,000. One of... Read More
A founding partner of international law and tax experts CMS Cameron McKenna’s real estate dispute team, Andrew Walker has joined the Birmingham legal practice of Squire Patton Boggs (SPB) as a partner and head of its UK property limitation department. With a 30-year legal career, Walker will advise a range of clients including... Read More
Award winning South West commercial agents Burston Cook have recently concluded a number of deals. Acting on behalf of unnamed clients the Bristol based firm have let offices at two addresses on Whiteladies Road, Clifton. At 96 Whiteladies Road Burston Cook let a 2,541 sq ft ground floor retail unit with the benefit of A3 restaurant... Read More
South West commercial property specialists Vickery Holman, acting jointly with DTZ, have concluded the sale of a detached commercial building at Carn Brea, Redruth, Cornwall. The building was most recently used as a trade counter, with a mixture of offices and stores, but had been surplus to requirements for some time. The sale also... Read More
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has appointed its first female president in the organisation’s 146 year history. The woman elected by the RICS’ governing council has been named as Louise Brooke-Smith. While serving her year-long presidency, she will continue to be involved with her Birmingham-based planning and... Read More
After nearly half-a-century in the business and overseeing a commercial portfolio worth £250m, Steve Carlin is retiring as a director of London & Cambridge Properties (LCP) Management. The retail expert began his career as a chartered surveyor with Frank, Wilde and Glover in 1968 before moving to the Birmingham office of property... Read More
Hinton Properties has announced that planning permission has been granted to transform a former Worcester furniture shop into a Sainsbury’s Local store. Jon Hinton, Development Director at Hinton Properties and Julian Pritchard, Chairman & CEO of PMG Investments The Midlands based firm, which specialises in land acquisition and... Read More
South West commercial property consultants Vickery Holman recently held their third annual Trailquest cycling event in aid of Cornwall Wildlife Trust. The event began at Bissoe Bike Hire and Café, to which the cyclists returned for a pasty and refreshments prior to the drawing of the charity raffle. In between, a series of... Read More
Auction House Staffordshire has declared its first Stoke-on-Trent auction a success following a strong result earlier this month. The 84% success rate included a mixture of residential, investment and commercial properties, with some selling for figures in excess of their guide price. Speaking about the sale, which took place at the... Read More
After one of the worst winters on record GVA created a national flood resilience team to offer risk assessment, evacuation planning and flood protection advice. The property consultancy has now named David Hoppe as head of the new unit. With more than 10 years’ experience of flood risk and resilience, Hoppe is joining the... Read More
South West commercial property firm Burston Cook reports that there has been noticeably more activity in the Bristol office market during the second quarter of 2014. They also report signs of improvement in the industrial, warehouse and retail markets. Among the transactions the award winning firm has completed recently is the letting... Read More
Hinton Properties — which has developed over one-million square feet of retail, leisure and office space in its 20 year history — has appointed Jon Hinton (pictured) as development director. Recruited to cope with the buoyant property market, exploit development opportunities and manage the existing development pipeline, Hinton... Read More
Property consultancy and management firm Bellrock has completed a number of deals throughout the country, as the regional markets continue to improve. The locations of the deals range from the North West to the South Coast and were completed by Will Beresford from the Bellrock London office. The first deal, where Bellrock acted for... Read More
Auction House has become the first residential auctioneer this year to clock-up over 1,000 sales – and the award winning group has passed the milestone two weeks earlier than in 2013. Auction House ended May having successfully sold 1,021 lots since the beginning of the year, which is an improvement of 15% on 2013. Commenting on... Read More
National property consultancy Carter Jonas has announced 26 promotions this month including three at its Cambridge office. Duncan Wisbey, who joined the firm in 2006 as a senior surveyor specialising in rent reviews, lease renewals and valuations, progresses from associate to the position of associate partner. Hannah Skingley —... Read More
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