Provincial Agency
UK retail agency outside central London is headed by Mark Poyner. With retail expertise in Knight Frank's UK commercial offices in the North and Scotland, they work for retailers and owners of shops and shopping centres all over the country.
Their traditional core business is consultancy and leasing on shopping centres, but a broadening of the team's client base has raised the team's profile in tenant rep work.
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Development
Our development consultancy unit within the retail team. Its specialism is shopping centre development and asset management, although it also advises on the development of single shop units and supermarkets and helps local authorities and other public bodies devise and implement town centre retail strategies. It tests project feasibility, talking through schemes with potential anchor tenants, and it advises on project design and marketing.
The retail team will arrange finance, carry out tenant mix analysis and retail impact studies. It will market, let and sell complete schemes.
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Professional
The professional department undertakes rent reviews, lease renewals and valuations for sale or purchase. Its aim is to create value through a detailed appreciation of legal documentation, the physical aspects of each property and current market forces.
The team is led by David Garofalo and is committed to achieving savings on behalf of tenants and to adding value for landlords.
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Out of Town Retailing
Headed by Francis Robert, who has worked in this niche sector for seven years, it works mainly for owners of retail parks, although tenant representation work is growing in the wake of an instruction to find sites for US-based TK Maxx.
The team's core skill lies in identifying opportunities for owners of retail parks to add value to their balance sheet generally by active asset management.
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Central London Retail
The specialist nature of the Central London market requires a dedicated professional team that acquire and let shops and handle delicate negotiations over rent reviews and lease renewals and the team is equally at home working for owners and retailers alike.
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