Bray Fox Smith Profile

Bray Fox Smith has won mandates to market three significant schemes in the West London and Thames Valley markets bringing forward 170,000 sq ft of offices. In Maidenhead Rockspring, RREEF and Bell Hammer have appointed Bray Fox Smith alongside Cushman & Wakefield to market their 66,655 sq ft speculative office development Tor at Hines Meadow [...]

Commercial property agent Bray Fox Smith has strengthened its national agency team by recruiting a senior member of staff and opening a northern office in Leeds to cover the region. Former King Sturge agent Jonathan Gale has joined Bray Fox Smith to open the office which will be located at No 1 Leeds on Whitehall [...]

Bray Fox Smith, the London and South east office and industrial agency, has appointed Richard Harding as a partner. Harding who has over 20 years experience in South East office agency joins from DTZ where he was a senior director and head of South East Office Agency. He worked previously at Donaldsons, where he was [...]

Blackberry manufacturer Research in Motion may soon be leaving its home in Slough as it launches a search for a new 120,000 sq ft European headquarters in the Thames Valley. The Canada-based company is keen to consolidate its UK personnel into a single office building and is considering new-build and existing properties. The group currently [...]

Legal & General has got the south east office market off to a flying start to 2012 by agreeing a deal with long-time Croydon occupier Nestle. L&G has agreed a 20-year lease with the confectionery giant at its 1 City Place in Crawley ending Croydon council’s dreams to keeping the company and its 2,000 strong [...]

The Thames Valley office market received an early Christmas present this week with a double letting boost in Reading. In the larger deal online retail payment group CyberSource has leased 20,000 sq ft at Reading International Business Park near junction 11 of the M4 on the edge of the town. CyberSource is understood to be [...]

Oil giant BP has exchanged contracts with Scottish Widows to base its 68,000 sq ft headquarters at New Square, Bedfont Lakes, near Heathrow, in what  is a major confidence boost for the south west London office market. BP will take buildings one, five and seven on the business park on a new 10-year lease, with [...]

Investor demand for industrial property in the south east of England has been highlighted with Legal & General buying six London industrial estates from Segro for £38.2m. L & G  has bought the estates, in Park Royal, Poyle, Haringey and Poplar and which total 450,000 sq ft, at a net initial yield of 6.2%. L [...]

Bray Fox Smith, the niche commercial property consultant, has announced the appointment of Sim Khatkar as a partner. Sim becomes Bray Fox Smith’s first appointment since it was formed by the founding partners in early 2009. 

Prior to joining Bray Fox Smith, Sim was head of the national office agency division at Cushman & Wakefield, [...]

In the last week, Pharmaceuticals company Astellas Pharma announced it will move its headquarters to Chertsey in the South East region’s largest occupational deal, while the banking group, ING Direct, also instructed its agents to review options in the Thames Valley region ahead of a 2014 lease expiry at its current Berkshire headquarters. Astellas Pharmas [...]