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CONSULTANCY GROWTH FUELS FURTHER EXPANSION
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hitecross Building Consultancy, a dynamic firm of Chartered Building Surveyors with a high calibre of UK client base, announces further expansion today with the appointment of Senior Building Surveyor Greg Allan. Greg joins the company from Edinburgh City Council and comes with a wealth of experience from a commercial surveying background. Whitecross’ continued expansion has seen the business moving to larger premises in both Glasgow and Edinburgh in the past two months. Whitecross advises clients throughout the UK and provides specialist Building Consultancy and Project Management services across all sectors of the commercial property industry, from large industrial and office space to leisure and retail.
Greg Allan
Recent projects include carrying out a survey and fit out of office space for The Richmond Fellowship (Scotland’s leading provider of social care) while also assisting them with advice on other existing and potential properties; monitoring fit-out works of both Hotel Chocolat and Epoch at Princes Square, Glasgow, on behalf of the landlord Redevco; and project managing an extension for AMRI’s existing pharmaceutical development and manufacturing premises at West of Scotland Science Park, Glasgow. In addition a number of complex CDM Principal Designer/Client Advisor instructions within the Distillery and Hotel Development field have been secured. Further information can be found at
www.whitecrossbc.co.uk
A CLEAN SWEEP
as Chartered Surveyors. Conor Docherty, Jan Dunsire, Ally Stang and Matthew Hannah have completed a clean sweep for the property consultancy in Scotland by passing their RICS Assessment of Professional Competence (APC) exams. The APC is a period of structured practical training and professional development that ends with the Final Assessment and ensures that candidates joining RICS are competent to practise as a Chartered Surveyor. JLL’s popular graduate scheme offers a number of different opportunities for graduates and undergraduates, including sandwich placements for students undertaking a RICS accredited degree and JLL First, a two day workshop for first year students interested in a career in Real Estate and Building Surveying. Alasdair Humphery, Lead Director at
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JLL in Scotland, said: “I know each one of our graduates has put in a huge amount of work for this important professional qualification. JLL has supported them all the way but considerable self-sacrifice has been evident as they have worked towards this fantastic result.
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LL Scotland is this week toasting its four graduates who have all qualified
NEW OCCUPIER
of Brymec Ltd to Rosewell House, Connect Business Park, Newbridge. Advised by Eric Young & Co, Brymec, a leading component supplier to the UK’s building services sector, will relocate from their existing Broxburn premises to the 2nd floor East suite at Rosewell House extending to 122 sq.m (1,309 sq.ft). Iain Taylor, associate at Ryden commented: "We are pleased
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to welcome Brymec to Rosewell House which is now 87% let and look forward to seeing the building fully occupied once again with only one suite remaining available." The letting to Brymec brings occupancy in the building back
up to 87% with only one suite of 245 sq.m (2,634 sq.ft) remaining available with potential to sub-divide to create two smaller suites to accommodate smaller occupier requirements.
OFFICE FOR LEASE OR SALE T
he 1700 sq.ft premises are located on the south side of Carden Place, within the popular and sought after west end office district to the immediate west of Aberdeen city centre. The mid-terraced, single storey and attic property, with a part single storey and part two storey extension to the rear, has been split to provide a mixture of large and small private offices/small open plan offices. Two parking spaces are associated with the suite. Mark McQueen, Associate at Shepherd in Aberdeen, said:
“Carden Place forms one of the main thoroughfares in and out of the city. The office is located within the popular west end office district and the local area is made up predominantly of office type uses, however the subjects are in a long parade of smaller terraced, predominantly residential, properties and this side of the street would be considered to be more residential than commercial in nature.”
RYDEN AND MUIR SMITH EVANS AGREE MERGER
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uir Smith Evans, the niche Scottish planning consultancy practice set up
by Brian Muir, Adrian Smith and Robert Evans, has agreed a merger with commercial property consultants Ryden. The merged firms will operate under the Ryden name with the Muir Smith Evans team joining Ryden’s established planning departments in Edinburgh and Glasgow. The deal creates a market-leading planning and research consultancy team operating throughout Scotland with the potential to expand further across the UK. Muir Smith Evans is best known for providing planning consultancy on large- scale, complex projects including a range of greenfield and brownfield commercial developments. The firm has delivered residential, student, commercial, retail, leisure, hotel and heritage projects across Scotland and the north of England. This latest deal is the next step in
Ryden’s strategy for growth. In the last 12 months Ryden has merged with Mason Philips to open an office in London and more recently opened an office in Manchester taking its total number of offices in England to three.
OFFICES ACQUIRED I
ME Property has acquired the former offices of the failed law firm Pagan Osborne at 2-4 Comiston Road on behalf of a growing firm of Chartered Accountants.
Morningside-based Ian J Brown &
Company has assigned the leasehold interests on the 1,100 sq.ft property until 2022 at a rental of £22,000 per annum. Pagan Osborne, one of Scotland’s oldest law firms, fell into administration last month with the loss of seventy jobs. Thorntons, who are also a full service law firm, promptly snapped them up. “The premises will be an excellent fit
for our client who had been looking to expand in the area for some time,” explains Iain Mercer, managing director of Edinburgh-based IME Property. “Corner frontage properties like this in Morningside rarely come available so we were quick to react as soon as we knew there was a possibility of acquiring it.” The accountancy practice has had a presence in Morningside for the last 4 years and they say the move to new premises will open up a wealth of expansion opportunities. Gilson Gray LLP provided the legal
work on behalf of Ian J Brown & Company.
COMMERCIAL PROPERTY MONTHLY 2017
n behalf of Scotmid, joint letting agents Ryden and Cushman & Wakefield are delighted to announce the arrival
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