Maddi Ellis

Richard Barrett has worked in property since 1983 and joined the company in 1987, becoming a director in 1990. He specialises in the valuation sector with specific responsibility for investment valuations and covers the UK and Europe including Germany, the Netherlands and France. Richard values for a variety of lending institutions and also provides regular valuations for a number of property funds.

Richard also sits as an APC assessor for the RICS.

I joined the Valuation and Advisory team at Colliers International in September 2010, initially focusing on  portfolio valuations and valuations for secured lending purposes in the UK and accross Europe. However,  I moved teams in 2012 and now focus solely on valuations within the UK.

Whilst training for the APC,  I  also spent time  working in the Logistics and Industrial agency department,  in order to gain further experience into this sector.

In 2014 I completed a 9 month secondment in the Real Estate division of the Central London Corporate Bank at HSBC. My role included offering internal valuation advice for properties and portfolios worth over £10m.  This enabled me to gain further insight into my clients' needs and objectives as well as helping to strengthen our relationship with HSBC.

I now predominantly value properties for secured lending purposes within London and the South East.

My major clients include; Lloyds, Barclays, New River and HSBC.

Laura joined the Valuation & Advisory Services department at Colliers International in January 2014 after graduating from Oxford Brookes University with a 2:1 Honours Degree in Real Estate Management. She passed her Assessment of Professional Competence (APC) in October 2016 to become a Chartered Surveyor. As part of her structured training, she rotated into the Industrial & Logistics department, where she was involved in acquiring and disposing industrial accommodation in the wider London and South-East sub-markets. 

Laura has since been working as a Senior Surveyor in the Valuation & Advisory Services department, focusing predominantly on commercial assets in the wider South-East, for loan security purposes. In addition to this, she is also involved in the half-yearly valuations of Shopping Centres on behalf of NewRiver REIT Plc.

Ailish graduated from the University of Bristol in July of 2014 and started working at Colliers International in September of the same year. Ailish spent five years working in an adminstartive capacity, supporting the Hotels Agency,  National Offices, and Industrial and Logistics teams in Bristol as well as the Industrial and Logistics team in Colliers' head office in London as the head of department's PA. 

During that time, Ailish completed her MSc in Real Estate Development and joined the graduate scheme in 2019,  completing her first rotation in Industrial and Logistics Agency, her second rotation in  National Capital Markets and final rotation in the Valuation and Advisory Services department. 

Ailish became a member of the RICS in November 2021, and continues to work in Valuation and Advisory Services,  predominantly focussing on loan security valuations of commercial assets across London and the South East.