Valuation specialist VAS Group has appointed Andrew Murdoch (pictured) as valuation panel director.
Murdoch is a RICS registered valuer and property receiver, and will be responsible for maintaining and growing the relationship between the company and its existing valuation panel.
He will also provide technical valuation advice to support both the VAS Audit and VAS Panel teams.
Possessing over 20 years’ banking and surveying experience, Murdoch joins from Bradley Hall Chartered Surveyors where he held the position of director.
He has also worked as head of valuation at Together, and undertaken year-long secondments in the recoveries teams at two of the UK’s leading high street banks.
Esquires in Durham City Picture: JIM SCOTT A DURHAM City café has reportedly shut its doors for good after becoming a popular destination with people far and wide over the years. Esquires Coffee on Silver Street has been cleared of its equipment, leaving just a few pieces of furniture behind as the unit has gone on the market. The firm, which has temporarily closed its cafés across the UK for the third lockdown, closed the Durham café following restrictions introduced in November. At the time, it posted on social media: Sadly we have made the difficult decision to close for the second lockdown.