Miller Commercial has once again scooped the EGi most Active Agent Award presented by the industry’s leading publication, the Estates Gazette, to the Commercial Agency which completes the most number of deals in their region each year.
Its researchers collate transactions submitted from all the main commercial property agencies operating in the South West in the period from 1st May 2015 to 30th July 2016.
Commenting on this most recent win Miller Commercial’s Senior Partner and Head of Investment at the firm, Peter Heather, said despite all the uncertainty around Brexit a combination long established links with related business and investment in new staff has helped the company retain top spot in Cornwall.
He said “Significant multi-million pound acquisitions, formal valuations, disposals of leisure parks, together with countless smaller transactions of corner shops, industrial units, offices, fish and chip shops etc. throughout Cornwall and Devon have all contributed to the Award in conjunction with the skills and hard work of the surveyors and support teams in place within the firm.
Interestingly, Brexit has had little or no effect on the number of transactions we conducted this year, in comparison to previous years. Nevertheless for the first time that I can remember since the late 1980s, it felt like the industry decided to take the summer off. Businesses were unsettled, preferring to sit and wait, rather than press on with their plans.
Various commentators suggested that the market could be subdued into 2017, but we have found that with the exception of the residential development sector, levels of activity, particularly going concerns and investments have been busy since everyone returned in September.
As well as Most Active Agent, Miller Commercial’s Mike Nightingale who is a Partner and Head of Agency at the firm has been awarded the EGi Deal Maker for in Cornwall.
The award celebrates the most active commercial agent in securing sales or lettings for the previous 12 months for all deals recorded within the county.
Mike says “Cornwall has fared well and we expect and as a firm we are poised to do more business having recently appointed a number of new key staff, including Susanna Sawle MRICS (Senior Valuer), Tom Smith, MRICS (Head of Commercial Agency), Paul Duffy, Senior Management surveyor (formerly head of Housing operations at Devon and Cornwall Housing Ltd), Thomas Hewitt, agency surveyor and (Laura Gardner MIRCS (Investment Agent, formerly Associate Director at JLL, Bristol). So, after a relatively quiet summer in terms of property transactions, we expect considerable activity in the next six months.”
