Commercial sectors

Will Mooney is a Partner based in Cambridge. He has over 27 years experience of the agency, investment, acquisition and development markets in this region and nationally. He specialises in the office, business and science park, hotel, retail and leisure sectors. Will provides strategic advice to many institutional, national and international clients, including ARM Holdings, The Downing College, Development Securities, Carisbrooke, University of Essex, Goodman, Greene King and Travelodge.

Scott specialises in providing advice on agency and development matters to a wide variety of clients from private individuals and trusts through to property funds, institutions, companies and statutory authorities.  He advises both owners and occupiers across public and private sectors.

Working at Board level with clients, Scott’s specialist areas include Business development, development of property strategies, property investment advice, advice in the marketing and disposal of property as well as property acquisitions.

Scott has a particular knowledge and understanding of the property market in the wider Oxfordshire region whilst also operating on a national basis on specific projects.

John is Head of the Leeds office and the Planning & Development Team North. John advises clients on proposed development projects throughout the North of England.  He has over 30 years’ experience in residential and commercial development acting for private, corporate, institutional, charity and public sector clients.

This includes site identification, project management of planning and development strategies, valuation and viability appraisals, marketing and sale of development opportunities.

John has specific expertise in Options, Promotional Agreements, Joint Ventures and Conditional Contracts, acting mainly for landowners.  John has been involved in projects such as new settlements, to city centre regeneration, provincial sites, large commercial developments and site sales.

The Development Agency team are currently instructed on 6,500 acres in 150 locations across the North West, Yorkshire and the North East.

Three career highlights 2016:

• Off-market acquisition prime Bath retail and office Investment
• Off-market acquisition prime Bath offices for growing Plc
• Brexit straddling Travel Lodge Investment acquisition

Three career highlights:
Over a career spanning nearly 30 years involving all forms of property from a nuclear bunker through to the vast majority of the County’s main business schemes, it is difficult to choose just three highlights; the following are certainly are worthy of note:

Letting acquisition, for SkyCaddie, at Haddenham: 
I have chosen this as we were presented with a challenging brief by our client but I was able to use my market knowledge to unearth an off market opportunity that we subsequently acquired on very favourable terms.

Sale of Foxcombe Hall, Oxford: It is not often you get to market a University Campus and, as such, our disposal of the former Open University Campus at Boars Hill has been a highlight, working alongside our residential team on this high profile instruction.

Letting Instruction, Silverstone Park: I am currently leading this letting instruction on behalf of MEPC, where we have been responsible for over 200,000 sq ft of lettings in the past 12 months and I enjoy helping guide the park’s future development form, alongside the wider team.   

Richard Love is a Partner, Head of Building Surveying in our London Commercial Team. Richard joined from Watts Group PLC where he worked since 2010, most recently as director in it's project consultancy group. Richard's role is to provide building consultancy services, including relocation management, contract administration, design, strategic procurement and conservation advice with our clients.

Career Highlights:

Ealing Town Hall:
Full external restoration of Grade II Listed Victorian Gothic town hall building. The project arose from a survey identifying incidences of dangerous stonework and the project incorporated extensive masonry repairs, reroofing, redecorations, stained glass replacement, access improvements and drainage improvements.  Works on site were delivered over an eight month period during which the town hall remained fully operational.

The Royal College of Psychiatrists HQ Relocation:
Project management services in respect of all aspects of the HQ relocation for this prestigious medical college.  The relocation centred around moving into a 50,000sq ft 1980’s office building and delivered a comprehensive strip out and refurbishment including the creating of canteen and catering facilities, conference space, library including antique book collection and sublet space.  The relocation was delivered in 9 months (inception to completion) and Richard also handled dilapidations matters on exit.

Career developments
Being appointed to the board overseeing the expansion of the Carter Jonas Commercial Division, which took place in early 2017. Also, managing the expansion of the Architecture and Building Consultancy team. The service line has doubled the number of specialists working within it in the last two years, becoming the largest team within the division. Further growth plans are currently in place for the next few years.

Three career highlights:

Significant involvement in and preparation of the Ministry of Defence ‘Footprint Strategy’ announced in the House of Commons, during a 2 year secondment to DIO.

A number of Central Government and Local Authority Green Book Business Cases leading to relocations, change programmes and adopting new ways of working.

Sale of Centrepoint Tower to Almacantar under the Targetfollow administration 

Michael is Head of Carter Jonas’ London Tenant Advisory Team and specialises in providing office search, lease negotiation, relocation management, rent review and lease restructuring consultancy services to office tenants based in Central and Greater London. He has over 20 years experience and his clients include international corporates such as Hitachi, Warner Bros and Hackett, not for profit organisations such as The Overseas Development Institute and The Nursing and Midwifery Council as well as owner-managed businesses including Wavex Technology, Credo Business Consulting and Turley Associates.

The range of consultancy services provided by Michael and his Team include advising on office availability, rents and rent free periods, undertaking property searches, representing tenants in lease negotiations, developing office relocation project plans, timetables and budgets and project managing each stage of the relocation process, including overseeing the pre-contract due diligence, and co-ordinating the activities of all those consultants who will be involved in the office move.

Three career highlights:

1. Sale of the largest brownfield development land in Switzerland on behalf of SAPPI
2. Lease re-structure of the 200,000 sqft NOKIA HQ in Duesseldorf, Germany
3. Voted top 20 deal maker by ONCOR INTERNATIONAL in 2005

Alison has over 25 years experience in the property industry and specialises in industrial agency with a focus on advising corporate, regional and local property owning and occupying clients on investment, acquisitions, sales, lettings and design and build industrial projects. Alison has a particular knowledge and understanding of the south west industrial markets along both the M4 & M5 corridors including East Hampshire, Swindon, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and the Somerset regions. Accordingly she has been instrumental in a number of significant industrial transactions in these areas.

Bruce’s experience covers over 27 years with UK national surveying practice GVA Bilfinger and ‘top 4’ accountancy firm Deloitte, working closely with Business Valuations, Business Transactional Services, Business Restructuring, Corporate, Forensic Services, Audit and Tax.

William Rooke is an investment and commercial development property specialist.

Three career highlights: 

• Land assembly in central Cambridge for 316 room student housing scheme.

• Acquisition of vacant office building in North Cambridge for £1m and subsequent letting and Asset Management to create a £7m investment.

• Securing planning consent and anchor tenants for a £100m industrial development in the Midlands. 

Three career highlights:

Leading Bath retail and leisure agent, act for St John’s Foundation, Bath, Standard Life, Aviva, Imperial, The Gap and numerous other investors and occupiers.

Recent highlights:
• Letting to Rick Stein restaurants in Marlborough, Wiltshire.
• Sale of an investment portfolio in Bath for St John’s Foundation
• Sale of Santander, Milsom Street, Bath for Lothbury.
• Transactional work for St John’s Foundation in Old Bond Street Bath including lettings to Bobbi Brown and  Charles Tyrwhitt and purchase & re-gear of Russell & Bromley.

Three career highlights:
Strategic Property Adviser to QVC for 12 years through their expansion into the UK
Including location consultancy, acquisition and program management of the 
Construction of a 750,000sqft distribution warehouse and 1,000 seat call centre.

Head of Estates for Ingeus UK through their major expansion delivering 35 new sites 
from search to fully fitted occupation in less than 9 months

Key Account Manager for DWP’s National Property Adviser for 15 years including 
drafting 3 estate strategies to initially merge 2 departments’ estates and then
deliver the rationalisation strategy that led to savings in excess of £375m pa.

 Three career highlights:

•    Fourteen years of strategic advice in advocating local and central government services, allowing savings and improved service delivery.    

•    Two nominations for occupier of the year awards on behalf of Local Authorities.  

•    Undertaking an efficiency review of every public owned asset within a UK County to understand strategic co-sharing opportunities and savings.