This week’s appointments, promotions and office moves
Sanderson Weatherall has appointed investment agent David Ferris as a partner in its agency team. He has 25 years’ experience in the investment market.
John Burnside has joined Hartnell Taylor Cook as a director in the investment team based in London. He was previously head of retail investment at Capita Real Estate.
M&G Real Estate has appointed Kevin Vickers as director of investment management in its long-income real estate business. He joins from Deloitte.
Knight Frank has recruited Michael Brownsdon as a partner to lead its new capital allowances service. The new offering will support occupiers on fit-out and refurbishment expenditure and investors on acquisitions and disposals.
Barings Real Estate Advisers has appointed Göran Bengtsson as head of the Nordics, based in Stockholm.
Sodexo Universities has appointed Steve Hawkins as European divisional director of student living and Sophie Austin as sales and marketing manager in its student accommodation team.
Faithful+Gould’s Bristol office has appointed Mathew Wilson as regional director to lead its project management team. He joins from Sweett UK.
Cushman & Wakefield’s Edinburgh office has promoted Calum Cowe to associate in investment and Craig Kemp to associate in global occupier services. Lucy Foulds and Oliver Barron have been made senior surveyors in valuation and advisory and office agency respectively.
Real estate development solicitor Daniel MacLeod has joined law firm Lodders from Wright Hassall.
Savills Investment Management has appointed Marcel Fleminks and Edgar Hertog as directors in its Amsterdam office.
Alex Hales has joined Audley Retirement Villages as planning manager in its land and planning team. He joins from Savills Oxford.
KLM Retail has promoted Tim Preston and Richard Flood to associate partners.
Knight Frank has appointed Benjamin Hamilton as an associate in the rural consultancy department, based in the Hungerford office.
JLL in Bristol has promoted Kevin Hunt and Jo Edwards to national directors. Philip Schmid, Barnaby Dodwell, Elfyn Haycock and Hannah Waterhouse have been made local directors. Alastair Kimpton and Ben Ponting have been named associate directors and Susan Green has become an assistant surveyor.
Matthew Tilt has been promoted to industrial director at Lambert Smith Hampton in Birmingham. He joined the firm two years ago as an associate director in the industrial and logistics team.
United Living has appointed new graduates Cynthia Ijiekhaumhen, Amir Zadeh, Edwin Lockerbie, Karina Duncan and Niedharson Pooranachandran. They will take on full-time employment with the firm while studying for their level 4 qualification in the housing sector as part of the GEM training scheme.
Fawcett Mead has promoted Tom Heptonstall to director. He was part of the founding team of Fawcett Mead in 2010 and had previously worked at JLL and Fineman Ross.
MK2 Real Estate has appointed Ian Wilton as a director to head its newly formed building consultancy department in the Birmingham office. He was previously a director at GBR Phoenix Beard.
Jason Sibthorpe has been appointed principal at Avison Young and managing director of the firm’s UK region. He joins from Bilfinger GVA.
Pangea Property Partners has appointed Kristina Picard to the new position of head and communications and marketing.
Malcolm Hollis has made the following promotions: Colin Edgar to partner and Gerry McGuigan to associate in Glasgow; Clare Holyoake to associate in Edinburgh; Aidan Sutcliffe to senior chartered building surveyor in Leeds; Carl Sablon, Jamie Pilborough and Matt Janes to associates and Nishma Patel to finance manager in London; Chris Mann to senior associate and Ben Murphy and Michael Beatty to associates in Manchester.
Shepherd Chartered Surveyors has appointed Gary Louttit as head of its hospitality and leisure department in Scotland.
CBRE has appointed Lorraine Hughes as a senior director in the UK planning team, based in London. She joins the firm from Turley.
Altus Group has opened a new Bristol office at 78 Queens Road, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 1QX. Director Catrin Mathias will head the new office and Steve Plowman joins as an associate director.
Stephen Weitzmann, formally a partner at Mellersh and Harding, has formed Stephen Warren Associates. Based at 5 Blenheim Street, London W1S 1LD, it will specialise in the acquisition and disposal of central London offices.
