Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and also a Registered Valuer with over seven years post qualification experience and joined Chestertons in April 2015.Valuations of Residential and Commercial property within Central London and Home Counties for loan security purposes as well as UK Tax Purposes and also Private clients.The majority of the valuation work involves houses and flats (owner occupied and investments) as well as developments within the value range of £1 million - £20 million, which have included residential and commercial property portfolios.

Management of rural estates, covering agriculture, sporting assets, residential and commercial properties. Providing advice on rural businesses for private landowners. Whilst managing the day to day running of these estates, main responsibilities included:• Liaising with accountant and reporting on the financial administration of the business.• Production of budgets for the estate and their associated interests. • Monthly client meetings to report on estate matters and monitor income and expenditure against budget, analyse the variances and advise accordingly.• Identify short term and long term opportunities to increase financial returns and capital value.• Dealing with the complexities of the CAP rules and regulations to ensure that all compliance issues have been addressed.• Putting in place a schedule of maintenance and repairs.• Over-seeing the required maintenance and repairs to properties.• Ensuring that Landlord and tenant issues are managed promptly and resolved satisfactorily.• Production of tenancy agreements for Agricultural, sporting, commercial and residential properties.• Collection of rents and dealing with arrears as they occur.Other spheres of work in which I was involved in for private clients• Working with the accounts team in the production of the end of year accounts. • Liaising with solicitors on leases, conveyancing and tenancies.• Negotiating the release of restrictive covenants for development sites and access requests.• Valuations of residential and agricultural properties for secured lending, inheritance tax and capital gains tax purposes.• Assisting with expert witness valuations.• Private client residential and agricultural lettings to include landlord and tenant relations.• Land and woodland sales.• Stewardship schemes.