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Place North West | Avison Young adds to Manchester ranks

The consultancy has appointed Matt Pickersgill as associate director from Lambert Smith Hampton.  Pickersgill, who spent just over a year as LSH’s North West offices lead, joins directors Rupert Barron, Mark Cooke, Scott Meakin and Chris Cheap in Avison Young’s office advisory team.  In total, Pickersgill spent almost six years at LSH, having joined as a surveyor in June 2015.   Chris Cheap, principal and managing director of the Manchester office, said: “Matt is someone who has established a really strong reputation in the Manchester office advisory market. Our regional growth ambitions are clear and recruiting talent of Matt’s calibre is fundamental to achieving them.” 

Place North West | Manchester investment market buoyed by Q4 deals

Dan Whelan Separate acquisitions by Warrington Council and Pictet Alternative contributed to £325m of deals recorded in the city’s office market last year, more than any other major UK city outside London, according to consultancy Avison Young.  In November, property investor Helical sold its Powerhouse Portfolio, comprising three Manchester office assets, to Pictet Alternative for £119m, while a month earlier, Warrington Council agreed to forward fund BT’s North West headquarters at English Cities Fund’s New Bailey to the tune of £112m, as revealed by Place North West.   Those two deals were the largest in terms of value of office sales transactions outside London in 2020 and helped Manchester record £235m of deals in the final quarter of a turbulent year, Avison Young’s Big Nine Q4 2020 report found.

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