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Dan is the Co-Head of the UK Retail Agency team at Colliers.
Dan & the team provide specialist advice on leasing Shopping Centre, High Street , Outlet & Out of Town property and facilitating large scale repurposing & redevelopment projects all across the UK for leading owners including a UK wide role advising Landsec on all of their shopping centres, outlets and London assets, together with leasing instructions on behalf of Hermes, Canada Life, AEW, Blackrock, Axa, Aviva, Aberdeen Standard and Invesco.
Dan & the team also advise a large number of leading and emerging occupiers, including Currys, Oliver Bonas, Sky, Fraser Hart Jewellers, iSmash, Sainsburys, Vodafone, Santander, Aldi & Boux Avenue on their acquisition and disposal programmes and store portfolio strategies.
The Colliers UK Retail Agency team is one of the most active and successful agency teams in the UK retail market and advises on over 800 retail & leisure deals every year right across the UK.
These deals are well balanced between advising occupiers and owners – this ensures we have an excellent perspective on both sides of the market.
Dan has regularly commented on the retail market in national media including BBC News, Newsnight, LBC, BBC Radio 4, The FT, CNBC, The Evening Standard, The Guardian, The Times, The Telegraph, TalkRadio and most property media channels.
Accomplishments
The Colliers UK Retail Agency team is one of the most active and successful agency teams in the UK retail market and advises on over 800 retail & leisure deals every year right across the UK.
Education
The University of Reading (Land Management)
The Windsor Boys' School
Memberships & Involvements
Shop Agents Society, Accessible Retail, Revo, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)
Clients
Landsec, Oliver Bonas, Aberdeen, Santander, New River, Currys, Invesco, Boux Avenue, Blackrock, Fraser Hart, Santander, KWAP, Vodafone
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My Team
My Team
Lloyd specialises in retail property nationally. He advises clients on all aspects of sale, acquisition, asset management and development including a wide range of institutional and private landlords, property companies and developers.
With 17 years experience in the retail market Lloyd focuses on the top regional towns and cities across the country. In this ever evolving market place Lloyd has advised on the acquisition and sale of prime retail assets and the development funding of large blocks and department stores to incorporate a mix of uses throughout the UK including retail, leisure, hotels and residential.
Epping Forest Shopping Park, Essex. Land assembly and development advice culminating in the construction and letting of 12 unit scheme of c 100,000 sq.ft let to Next, TK Maxx, Home Bargains, Aldi, Hobbycraft etc.
Waltham Cross, London. Sale of 25 acres unconditionally to IKEA.
Scotch Corner, Yorkshire. Development and letting advice for Designer Outlet Village plus 200 acres.
Devonshire Retail Park, Torbay. Developement and leasing advice on new 80,000 sq.ft scheme including 40,000 sq.ft pre let to The Range.
Letting of first bespoke retail park in UK at Cribbs Causeway, Bristol.
Slough. Appointed Divestiture Trustee to The Competition Commission to sell 5.5 acre site owned by Tesco, with Power of Attorney from the Tesco board. Sold to Sainsburys for £37 million.
Redevelopment of 70,000 sq.ft Sainsburys at Rustington W Sussex for new 120,000 sq.ft store on stilts.
Purchase of 150,000 sq.ft Ravenside Retail Park, Birmingham for Brockton Pradera for £26 million. Ongoing asset management with deals to Pets at Home, Wren and Halfords re gear.
Bridgewater Retail Park purchased for Gallagher Developments and subsequent asset management.
Weston Super Mare, Wyvern Retail Park purchased for Gallagher Estates and subsequent asset management.
Atlantic Village, North Devon (120,000sq.ft) factory outlet centre purchased for Development Securities.
Bristol, Longwell Greeen. Development of 98,000 sq.ft Gallagher Shopping Park as a jv between Gallagher and Clerical and Medical. let to M&S, Next, Arcadia, New Look, Boots, Clarks, River Island and Clintons.
Acquisition of over 50 stores for Lidl.
Retail park developments in Taunton, Wolverhampton (Bentley Bridge retail and leisure parks), Gloucester, Longwell Green(Bristol), Winterstoke Road (Bristol), IKEA (Bristol), Emersons Green (Bristol), Plymouth, Truro, Liskeard, Barnstaple, Torquay ( Wren and Riviera Retail Parks), Swansea (B&Q), Port Talbot, Neath, Cardiff, Haverfordwest, Carmarthen (3 schemes), Frome, Yeovil, Manchester, Dorchester, Bodmin, Clevedon ( Payless DIY, Lidl, Tesco, Halfords and Topps Tiles), Clevedon (planning for Aldi, Pets at Home), Trowbridge (Spitfire and Gateway retail parks), Cwmbran, Chippenham
Food superstores in Totnes (Safeway), Bodmin(Safeway), Frome (Sainsburys), Cardiff(Asda), Swansea (Asda), Frome (Sainsburys)
Nick has specialised in the retail warehouse sector for nearly 30 years - he gives pragmatic and knowledgeable advice based on this hard won experience. Nick is instructed on all aspects of Out of Town Retail asset management by a wide variety of clients and concentrates predominately on rent reviews, lease renewals and re-gears as well as some new leases - mainly in the drive thru sector. As well as many Third Party appointments, Nick is relatively unusual in having been through the 1954 Act renewal process in the County Court as an Expert Witness.
After the upheaval of Covid, retail warehousing has proven to be more robust than other retail sectors and the lack of available units has led to a strengtheing market and improving rental tones in certain centres. The influence of the digital world has put more pressure on retail but Nick believes that “clicks” need “bricks” and in the future it will be a combination of excellent physical units as well as on-line fulfilment that will see retail thrive and it is those opportunities which need to be exploited.
Nick has had a variety of leadership roles within Colliers leading the Lease Advisory team for 5 years, the Retail - Out of Town team for 3 years and the Retail division on an interim basis for nearly 2 years. As well as professional work, Nick’s experience as an officer in the Gurkhas taught the importance of leadership by example and leading retail teams within the UK has provided that opportunity to make a difference. Additionally, I'm adept at media engagements, contributing retail-focused articles to various publications as well as the BBC on live television.
However Nick is happiest talking to clients, understanding their business and looking to help them be more successful.
Jessica works in the UK Retail Agency team which involves leasing a number of different retail & leisure assets across the country. She provides the retail advice to Landsec across their national shopping centre, designer outlet and retail park portfolio.
Her other landlord clients include Aberdeen Standard, Invesco and Hines. Jess also provides strategic acquisition and occupational advice for a number of occupiers including Santander, Vodafone, Currys, iSmash and City Pub Group.
Jess passed her APC to become a Member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors in November 2017.
Meg works in the Retail Agency team, which involves leasing a number of different leisure and retail schemes across the country. She works for landlord clients including Landsec, Oxford City Council, AEW, Blackrock, Canada Life, NewRiver, Legal & General and Colliers Capital and is leasing agent on shopping centre schemes including Bluewater, Oxford Westgate, Leeds Trinity, St David's Cardiff, Gunwharf Quays, Putney Exchange, Regents Arcade, Cheltenham and Priory Meadows in Hastings.
Meg also advises leading retailers including Aldi, Currys, City Pub Group and Santander on their acquisition and disposal programmes.
Meg has experience providing strategic advice for clients on portfolio management, having recently worked on large disposal programmes for Carphone Warehouse (Currys), Thornton's and Santander.
I have many years experience as a PA/secretary in a variety of industries
Greg is a retail property and development specialist with over 30 years’ experience, who advises clients across the UK on all aspects of agency, development and investment. He provides advice on food stores, shopping centres, out of town retail, large site sales and acquisitions, and all forms of retail, residential and mixed use development. His expertise includes site agency, master planning, scheme design, development appraisals, compulsory purchase, leasing, development agreements and the sale and funding of projects.
Greg is one of the UK's leading experts in supermarket property and development. He is retained by Sainsbury's to advise on their supermarket acquisition programme, he advises the property team at ALDI on projects across the UK, and he acts for Morrisons on the disposal of large, complex surplus sites and stores. Greg also specialises in the promotion and sale of large development opportunties for the full range of uses.
Tom is part of the Retail Development team that provides advice to a variety of occupier, owner and developer clients in relation to in-town, shopping centres, foodstores, retail warehouse and roadside properties.
Tom has particularly strong experience in the foodstore sector and assisted Sainsbury’s in their large foodstore expansion drive through both new sites and store extensions. In 2016, Tom was seconded into Netto UK as a Development Surveyor to assist Sainsbury’s property team in seeking new sites for the value retailer across Yorkshire and the North Midlands. This role has now evolved to provide asset management advice to their existing portfolio across the north of England.
Tom is currently providing advice to Bolton Council and their joint venture partners BCEGI and Midia in relation to the acquisition, leasing and mixed-use redevelopment of the Crompton Place Shopping Centre in Bolton. Tom has also worked as part of the team on retail led developments in Barnsley, Darlington, Harrogate, Leeds, Liverpool, Mansfield, Penrith, Sunderland, Warrington and The Point in Malta.
He is currently providing shopping centre leasing advice on schemes in Billingham, Leeds, Liverpool and Manchester and has previously acted on a number of shopping centres across the North and Midlands
I am a Retail Agent specialising in Acquisition and Disposals for Occupiers within the North and Midlands Region.
I act on behalf of Carphone Warehouse, Sky, Subway , Sainsburys Local, iSmash, Thorntons, Santander, Yorkshire Building Society and Phenix Salons.
I am a Director in Retail Scotland, and have responsibility for new business generation, client liaison and maintaining Colliers International’s position as a leading player in the retail agency.
Having joined Colliers CRE in April 2006 to become Head of In Town Retail I have over 25 years of experience in the UK commercial property market, having previously held similar roles with Cushman & Wakefield and Jones Lang LaSalle, all based in Glasgow.
I am part of a team of 3 within Colliers International Retail Scotland, and haves responsibility for new business generation, client liaison and maintaining Colliers International’s position as a leading player in the retail agency market in Scotland.
Leasing & Asset Management work has included a number of high profile shopping centres across Scotland including; Livingston - The Centre, Inverness - Eastgate Centre, Dundee - Overgate Centre, Glasgow - St Enoch Centre, Glasgow - The Forge Shopping Centre, Cumbernauld - Antonine Centre, Dunfermline - Kingsgate Centre, Motherwell - Brandon Centre and Clydebank - Clyde Shopping Centre.
Landlord clients have included Land Securities, Hines, Grosvenor, Rocksrping, F&C Reit, CBREGi, Ivanhoe Cambridge, Belfast Office Properties, London & Regional, Milverton Properties and Edinburgh House Estates.
Ross has also been heavily involved in retailer acquisitions with clients such as Holland & Barrett, Joules, Oliver Bonas, Sky, The Works, The Gym Group, Tim Hortons and Popeyes.
Pru joined Colliers in August 2018 and is based in the West End Office, in the UK Retail Agency team which involves leasing a number of different retail & leisure assets across the country. Pru acts for both landlords and occupiers in a range of roles on both High Street and Shopping Centre instructions. She provides retail advice to Landsec across their national shopping centre, designer outlet, London assets and retail park portfolio. She also advises a number of leading and emerging occupiers including Oliver Bonas, City Pub Group, Fraser Hart, Santander and Vodafone on their store portfolio strategies, acquisition and disposal programmes.
Pru passed her APC to become a Member or the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors in June 2021.
Ollie joined Colliers UK Retail Agency team in November 2022 and is based in the West End Office, after 3 years at a niche retail firm working on a variety of Agency and Lease Advisory instructions. Ollie acts for both landlords and occupiers in a range of roles on both High Street and Shopping Centre instructions.
Current Landlord clients include Landsec, across their shopping centres and outlet schemes which include Bluewater, Leeds Trinity, Cardiff St Davids, Oxford Westgate and Gunwharf Quays amongst others, and Oxford City Council across their portfolio. Current Tenant clients include Santander, Vodafone and Costa.
Ollie passed his APC to become a Member or the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors in February 2022.