Giles
Blagden
LLB (Hons) MRICS
Present Position: Partner |
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| Qualifications and
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Law graduate from Leeds University
Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
Member of the Institute for Continuing Professional Development
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| Brief Career History: |
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1990 – to date
Hicks Baker
Partner (since 2000) and Head of Property Management
and Consultancy, handling a wide range of instructions
throughout the United Kingdom, including landlord and
tenant advice and investment disposals and acquisitions,
on a wide range of properties which include motor trade
and leisure.
1988 - 1990
Savills Plc
Surveyor in the Property Management Department, Grosvenor
Hill W1.
1987 to 1988
Daniel Smith
Assistant Surveyor involved in the management of two
traditional London Estates
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| CAREER HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE: |
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Chancellors Group of Estate Agents
Managing a predominantly retail estate of
circa 80 operational and surplus properties located
in central London, the western home counties and the
welsh borders, providing a facilities management service
and undertaking rent reviews lease renewals, surrenders,
schedules of dilapidations acquisitions and disposals.
Motorcycle City
Retained by the company between 1997 and 2001,
when the company was acquired by the Dixons Motor Group,
undertaking rent reviews and lease renewals, providing
strategic property advice and acquiring several existing
and new build high profile showrooms, including West
London, Reading and Manchester.
Somerset House Reading
I acquired this secondary mixed use investment
having ground floor retails with offices above for Rowan
Asset Management who successfully obtained an A3 planning
consent before letting the property to a national pub
operator and then selling the investment to Canada Life
for approximately twice the initial purchase price.
452 Bath Road Slough
Acquiring this 20,000 sq ft office building
for BNB Resources Plc from Bull Information Systems.
Peregrine Business Park, Loudwater
Undertaking rent reviews for the landlord SLC Asset
Management (now Credit Suisse First Boston).
3 - 9 Gun Street Reading
Acquiring a terrace of 5 secondary retail
and A3 properties off the market from Legal and General
for a private investor and subsequently implementing
three outstanding rent reviews and advising in the active
management and onward disposal of part of the terrace,
doubling the value of the client’s investment.
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