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Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Bristol, United Kingdom

• Founded and manage real estate business, offering a range of consulting and contracting services, including commercial property management, residential property management, benchmarking, business rates management.
• Coordinate clients’ property consultants, subcontractors and additional team members on diverse projects.
• Devised and implemented cloud-based residential property management database to ensure efficient / accurate reporting of surveys and enhance planned and reactive maintenance on residential portfolio.
• Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
• Capita Real Estate: Engaged as Property Consultant to support management of Severn Trent’s property portfolio. Led review of 120 head leases and c.300 leases to develop client database.
• Capita Real Estate: Reviewed and significantly improved helpdesk processes, providing access to telecoms equipment on client sites. Additionally, delivered helpdesk handbook, resulting in improved training and.

London And Bristol

• Hired as Associate Director to manage key client accounts (public and private sector), delivering projects in line with client requirements.
• Clients included: Honeywell, Land Registry, Legal and General, Brewin Dolphin and NHS Property Services Ltd.
• Led delivery of outsourced transactions including acquisitions and disposals, business rate appeals, dilapidations, rent reviews, break options, lettings, lease renewals and surrenders.
• Honeywell: Assisted on estate rationalisation strategy in South Netherlands to consolidate 3 sites into 1 to boost efficiencies and reduce operations costs. Considered quantitative and qualitive factors including.
• Land Registry: Coordinated the provision of investment, leasehold and planning advice on 14 properties across 3 regions. Led disposal of 3 freehold assets and reduced rent payable from £12mp.a. to £0.93m p.a. in line.
• Legal and General: Provided a leasehold office management and disposal service for surplus estate, resulting in a reduction of 41 offices to 22 in 4 years.

London And Bristol

• Promoted to Senior Associate to build and maintain effective client relationships through management of leasehold property portfolio.
• Liaised with internal and external surveyors and specialists, advising on all aspects of real estate execution, procurement, asset enhancement and disposal.
• Key clients included: Thales, Orange and Bank of Ireland.
• Thales: Acted as Transaction Manager for UK’s 2nd largest defence electronics company. Succeeded in reducing portfolio from 100 to 35 properties within 5 years, resulting in cost savings of £20m p.a. and 50% increased.
• Orange: Acted as Transaction Manager, for portfolio of 55 offices and call centres with full management of sub-lets. Contributed to budgets and FRS12 accounting provisions, led benchmarking and strategic review of.
• Bank of Ireland: Coordinated provision of specialist retail advice in rent reviews, lease renewals, sub-lets and disposals.

London, United Kingdom

• Hired as Senior Surveyor to manage a range of occupier client property portfolios, reviewing performance and maximising economic return for clients in all aspects of Asset Management.
• Clients included: Philips Electronics UK Ltd and The Insolvency Service.
• Acted as Account Manager for Philips Electronics UK property portfolio, overseeing transactions for the whole portfolio and directly managing surplus stock.
• Responsible for all aspects of property management, including rent reviews, lease renewals, surrenders and service charge arrangements and other landlord and tenant issues to ensure efficient management of client.
• Philips Electronics UK Ltd: Led transaction management of client portfolio, including rent collection, handling tenant queries and ensuring compliance with lease terms. Additionally, coordinated disposal of surplus.
• The Insolvency Service: Led leasehold event management for portfolio of 40 properties, including benchmarking analysis on service charges and consultancy project to develop INSS sustainability policy and action plan.

London, United Kingdom

Asset Management on the following portfolios: The Church Commissioners; Bradford & Bingley, John Laing and Woolwich Pension Funds; and Corporation of London. Rent collection, office & industrial service charge management, portfolio analysis, freehold purchase & sales.

London

The Co-Op Wholesale portfolio - retail valuation and management; New Look - retail business rates appeals; and Lambeth Council - industrial service charge management & auction disposals.

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Msc, European Real Estate

Bsc (Hons), Agricultural Economics, 2:2

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