Some 2009 highlights include:
- Using our powerful international buyer knowledge to help underpin £5.6 billion of client investment sales and acquisitions transactions, (over 22% of the market), making us number 1 overall in the UK, as well as in the City, West End and shopping centre markets
- Our agency leasing and agency occupier teams continuing to carry out some of the largest office, retail and industrial deals across the country on behalf of their clients and being recognised as the Estate Gazette’s UK property adviser of the year for offices and Property Week’s retail team of the year
- Our retail property services, leasing, investment and management teams, now advising shopping centre clients on over 35 m sq ft of schemes, completing £1.1 billion investment transactions (a 56% market share) - including a bank backed receiver sale of the Silverburn Shopping Centre, Glasgow, for £297 million, the largest outright retail asset sold in the year – and also managing over 26 m sq ft of shopping centres and retail parks
- Advising on the largest single rating advice assessment in the UK (having saved clients more than £1billion over the lifetime of the 2005 rating list)
- More and more of the world's top investment companies have been asking us to help plan robust strategies that will address climate change and property sustainability
- Our development and asset strategy team advising clients on 7 out of the 10 largest regeneration projects in the UK including the Olympic Park in East London advising, amongst others, the Olympic Delivery Authority LOCOG and the Olympic Park Legacy Company
- Our expanded Value Recovery Services team has increasingly been working with many of the major real estate lenders to help navigate them through the stormy waters of recession
- Our Corporate Solutions team continuing to win major new accounts, including adding Astra Zeneca, Pfizer and Smiths Group and representing one of the strongest and fastest growing service providers for both UK and international corporate occupiers