About
Professional Summary
Simon Norton is a director in the Birmingham office within the Industrial & Logistics team. He has 25+ years experience dealing with numerous site and building disposals / acquisitions throughout the wider Midlands area. Simon's clients include; Jaguar Land Rover, Rolls-Royce plc, Bentley Motors Ltd, TRW, Goodrich, Plastic Omnium, Euro Car Parts, Faurecia, Safestore, CBRE Investors Wilson Bowden and Gazeley Developments.
Accomplishments
- Acting on the UK's biggest acquisition of a prelet warehouse totaling 2.94m sq ft on behalf of Jaguar Land Rover for their world wide after market parts distribution facility.
- Acting jointly with the investment team in the pitching and disposal of a 180 acre multi let site on a sale and leaseback.
- Acquring 257,000 sq ft new purpose built distribution hub for Euro Car Parts.
- Marketing and disposal of multiple large scale warehosues on behalf of IM Properties at Birch Coppice Tamworth
Education
University Of Central England
Membership Involvements
RICS - Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
Clients
- Jaguar Land Rover
- Revelan Group
- Safestore
- CBRE Global Investors
- Faurecia
- Plastic Omnium
- Tritax Symmetry
- Prologis
- IM Properties
- Euro Car Parts
- Goodrich
- Rolls-Royce
- Dixons Group
- Pets at Home
Services
Skills
Service Lines
Property Types
My Team
My Team
Charlie Andrews joined Colliers International in September 2019 as a member of the Industrial and Logistics team in Birmingham focusing on disposals and acquisitions, ranging from multi-let industrial estates to large distribution facilities, throughout the wider Midlands area. Charlie has previously worked in Real Estate Valuations for a large multi-national firm.
Joined Colliers International in February 2018 working in the Birmingham Industrial and Logistics team. My role includes dealing with leasehold and freehold acquisitions and disposals of industrial property on behalf of a wide range of corporate and individual clients.
Len Rosso
Head of Industrial and Logistics
London - West End
Len has more than 30 years' experience in the commercial property sector. Having started out as a trainee surveyor in 1983 he moved on to set up Jansons in 1990, a niche agency specialising in industrial in North and West London. In 2004/5 the business was voted Industrial Agency of the Year, this being the first ever non West End national practice to have won this prestigious award. In that same year the business transacted in excess of 3.5 million sq ft which accounted for in excess of 50% of the total transactions for the North and West London market.
Since joining Colliers International, as the Head of the UK Logistics and Industrial Department, the objectives are the same as always, to outperform all competitors whilst providing the highest level of service to all our clients. In 2018, the Colliers International UK Industrial & Logistics team completed over 250 deals totalling over 15 million sq ft.
Sam joined Colliers International in 2013 as a member of the Industrial and Logistic team focusing on disposals and acquisitions, ranging from multi-let industrial estates to large distribution facilities, throughout the Greater Midlands area. Sam's previous experience is asset management for a Midlands based property company.