International, independent real estate consultants Hollis have welcomed three new starters to its London City office.
Matthew Briggs joins as a Senior Associate. Briggs has nearly a decade of experience as a neighbourly matters expert, and specialises in Party Wall matters including negotiating scaffold access and crane oversail licenses. A residential specialist, he has advised on both private and publicly-funded projects and is a former director at JLL.
Barry Stevens joins as a Senior Associate. He has over 22 years’ experience as a quantity surveyor, and has combined that role with the role of Employer’s Agent over the past ten years. He joins the Cost Management team at Hollis.He has worked across the residential, retail, commercial, and infrastructure sectors, and his former clients include the City of London, many housing associations, and water and rail firms.
Tom Schute joins as a Building Surveyor. Schute recently completed a masters’ degree in building surveying from Kingston University, and has nearly four years of experience working in project management, party walls, schedules of condition and defects analysis. He joins from Peter Barry Chartered Surveyors.
Despite the uncertainty, the commercial property market in London remained remarkably resilient since the U.K. decided to leave the European Union in 2016. Overseas investors remain confident about the capital, and investment in the Central London office market has soared since the result of the General Election in December. This confidence is set to remain for the year ahead.
John Woodman, Senior Partner, Hollis, said: “Increased confidence and investment in the London property market can only be a good thing. We expect to see a rise in transactions across various property sectors, with industrial and logistics, and offices doing well again this year.”
“We could not be more pleased to welcome Matthew, Barry and Tom to the team in London.”
