Birmingham industrial agency stalwart Tim Suffield has been appointed as a strategic adviser and consultant to the new Birmingham office of Worcestershire-based Blue Marble Properties.
Suffield was the former head of BNP Paribas Real Estate’s Birmingham office and national head of industrial agency at the firm, before leaving in 2009 to set up his own consultancy firm.
He will work closely with Blue Marble chief executive Tim Matthews at the firm’s new offices on Newhall Street.
Meanwhile, the company has also rebranded, changing its name to Blue Marble Asset Management, to more accurately reflect its core activities.
Blue Marble was founded by Matthews four years ago and has more than £60m of property assets under management.
Matthews said: “To be able to work with such a highly respected and well-known member of the property profession as Tim is a real coup for Blue Marble and, along with our new Birmingham presence amongst such a large cluster of property professionals, will help in the identification of future projects and the recruitment of new clients and new senior people, all of which will contribute to the company’s growth.”
Recent off-market deals completed by Blue Marble include the purchase of offices at 57-63 Church Street in Birmingham city centre, jointly with Antringham Developments, the acquisition of a fully let 35,000 sq ft industrial unit with four acres of development land on the Drum Industrial Estate in Chester-le-Street, and the acquisition of a 27,000 sq ft unit let to Travis Perkins company, CCF, at Langley Mill.
