Richard is an associate based in our Leeds office covering Yorkshire and the North East. He specialises in lease consultancy and valuation work. Richard qualified as a Charted surveyor in 1999 and has a wide range of professional practice experience including rating, asset valuations, landlord & tenant advice and town & country planning.
Specific experience
Lease consultancy - specialising in rent review and lease renewal advice for both landlord and tenant clients, including Costa Coffee, W H Smith, Phones 4u, The Co-operative Group, La Senza, Pizza Express, ASK and Zizzi, Norwich Union, HSS Hire Service Group, Brakes, ATS and BSS Group as well as private individuals. Richard concentrates on the retail/restaurant sector, although he also advises client’s on offices, industrial units and trade counters. Prior to joining Gerald Eve’s Leeds office Richard worked in the Retail Department of our West End office dealing with rating and lease consultancy across the south east of England.
Expert witness – provides expert witness reports for rent review and lease renewal dispute resolution throughout Yorkshire and the North East. Richard has also provided expert witness advice to Court acting as a Single Joint Expert. He has also appeared at County Court as an expert witness in lease renewal proceedings.
Valuations – providing Red Book valuations and advising occupiers for company accounting purposes as well as banks and building societies for secured lending.