Retail & Leisure
Carter Jonas’s retail and leisure team delivers effective solutions to the opportunities and challenges faced by clients involved in all aspects of retail and leisure property.
Our specialists work closely with developers, investors, retailers, landlords and owners on a multitude of property types throughout the UK. Our focus is to provide clients with ‘simply better advice’ every step of the way.
Our local market knowledge, combined with our national coverage, enables us to provide a high-quality service to our clients across the UK in a sector that is constantly evolving.
We work in close partnership with our clients to understand their business objectives.
Our clients benefit from a comprehensive asset management solution to their particular needs, thanks to the fact that we have experts across the board – in agency, development and other professional matters.
We can also draw on expertise in other disciplines within Carter Jonas, such as our planning, development and investment teams. As such, we can provide a complete service to clients, as we hope our track record of success demonstrates.
Our expertise covers:
- Town centre retail
- Restaurant and leisure real estate
- Health and fitness gyms
- Mixed-use developments
- Acquisitions and disposals
- Out-of-town and edge-of-town retail
- Retail parks
- Drive thru and roadside retail
- Shopping centres
Case Studies
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:
• Appointed as Tactical Asset Manager on Hermes Real Estate’s National Office portfolio comprising 30 assets with a capital value of £450m.
• Secured the largest office letting in Cambridge for 10 years, following the consolidation of Cambridge Silicon Radio’s occupation into just under 100,000 sq feet at Cambridge Business Park in 2013. The Park was subsequently the best performing asset in our client, The Crown Estate’s Urban Portfolio (including central London) for 2014.
• Investment sale of Watchmoor Park, Camberley, a prime south east business park comprising 183,000 square feet in July 2007 for £42.5m.
Three career highlights:
Director, Helical Bar; Owner/Director Stiles Harold Williams; Owner, Whittingham Prosser.
Robert provides advice on agency, investment and development matters to a wide variety of clients from private individuals through to property funds and institutions. Robert advises both owners and occupiers in the marketing and disposal of property as well as property acquisitions.
Samuel is part of the National Retail, Leisure & Hotels team. Key clients he works with are Travelodge, Greene King, Dominos & KBeverage Ltd (Starbucks) to acquire sites throughout the UK. He also advises key clients on Retail, Leisure & Hotel schemes across the UK. Samuel furthermore works with the development and investment team supporting providing investment/development advice and promoting sites for development.
Tim is a surveyor in the commercial team based in Bath.
Our Planning Service
We advise clients nationally on the planning and development of new retail, leisure and mixed-use real estate in town-centre, edge-of-town and out-of-centre locations across the UK.