Richmond Place 15 Petersham Road Richmond Surrey
This office building next to the river in Richmond town centre was constructed in 1982 and let on 25 year leases which expired in March 2008. Our client undertook a comprehensive upgrade of the building, which included new services, windows, floors ceilings, lights and toilets. Prior to commencement of the works we agreed a prelet to Mailsource UK Limited, a business owned by the Swiss Government, on 6,500 sq ft over two floors of the building at an average rent of £32.50 per sq ft on a 10 year lease. The ground floor of 2,150 sq ft is available to let.

Magellan House Bessemer Road Welwyn Garden City Hertfordshire
This is a modern detached headquarters/ distribution building of 17,000 sq ft situated in a prominent position fronting Bessemer Road on the edge of Welwyn Town Centre. When the previous tenant vacated we organised some minor repair and redecoration works and the building has now been let to PC Disposals Limited at £8.00 per sq ft on a 6 year lease.

Reigate Place Reigate Surrey
This is a building we manage. It is 14,000 sq ft in a prime position on London Road very close to Regate Station. It was let to Eurodus Electron Plc when our client bought it. Eurodus went into Administration.The Japanese word for crisis is the same word for opportunity and we advised our client that there was now the opportunity to upgrade the building.  We rebranded the building Reigate Place, organised the upgrade including comfort cooling, LG3 compliant lighting, etc all to a much better standard than Reigate is used to seeing.  We let the ground floor to TDK Electronics, the first floor to Bishop Cavanagh IT, the second floor to Enturia Limited and the third floor to WS Planning. The building is now completely refurbished and fully let at an average rent of £21.00 per sq ft, compared to the £18.00 per sq ft that Eurodis were paying.

Godalming Business Centre Godalming Surrey
We manage this small business park.  The buildings are now approaching 20 years old and look a little tired.  Our client, Good Harvest Group, lavishes its usual tender loving care on the buildings as and when one becomes vacant.  World Wildlife Federation, originally in 5 GBC, recently exercised a break which gave us the opportunity to upgrade the building to include comfort cooling and raised floors.  We were approached by Sinclair Pharma Plc to take 11,000 sq ft plus, but 5 GBC was only half that size.  Fortunately, at the same time, Bachy Soletanche, in 4 GBC vacated so we organised a surrender and upgraded 4 GBC to match 5 GBC.  We let both of them to Sinclair.  This is the largest letting in Godalming and surrounding area for sometime.

11 Mecklenburgh Square Bloomsbury London WC1
A client of ours, Navigator Securities identified the Bloomsbury / Kings Cross area as a location in which they wanted to invest. We initiated a search on their behalf, knocking on doors and doing land registry searches as a way of unearthing opportunities. This building was the London headquarters of Ashgate Publishing, although it was too big for their needs. As a result of our efforts Navigator bought the building off market. The property was approximately 4,200 sq ft of Grade 2 listed Georgian grandeur on what must be one of the finest squares in London. Navigator obtained planning permission to change the use to a single house, and had planned to convert the property, however it was sold to a residential owner occupier who made an offer our client could not refuse.

British Gas Training Centre Colthrop Way
Thatcham Berkshire
This was a modern but tired 1980’s Industrial/Distribution building with approximately 3.5 years left on the lease to Emerson Climate Control. Emerson were shortly to vacate and we started surrender negotiations agreeing a payment in lieu of rent and dilapidations of 2.5 years rent. We simultaneously commenced negotiations with Centrica who were looking for a building to fit out as a British Gas Training Centre. Although they liked the building Centrica would not take it looking tired, with an asbestos roof. We used the payment from Emerson to refurbish and re roof the building. Centrica took a new 10 year lease at a rent 17% higher than the rent Emerson were paying, so the only cost to our client was a relatively short rent free period.