Senior appointments bolster Vail Williams’ Thames Valley team

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Peter Davison

Property consultancy Vail Williams has appointed two experienced recruits to senior roles in its Thames Valley office.

Martin Hughes (pictured) and Laura Haleem – both previously with Lambert Smith Hampton – have joined the firm’s valuation team based in Reading.

Martin has 27 years’ commercial property experience across the Thames Valley and wider south east region, most recently as LSH regional head of valuation.

Highly regarded in the business community, he joins Vail Williams as a partner in the valuation team.

Laura Haleem, who has more than 10 years’ property experience specialising in valuation and development appraisals across retail, office and industrial sectors – joins as an Associate in the valuation team.

David Thomas, Vail Williams’ regional managing partner for the Thames Valley, said: “We’re delighted to welcome Martin and Laura to join our growing full property service team here in Reading.

“This is very much part of the next stage of our growth plan as we look ahead to 2022 and beyond.”

Vail Williams says the appointments build on its existing valuation offering, complementing the firm’s wider services such as agency, building consultancy, lease advisory, investment, planning and development expertise, as well as property asset management and occupier consultancy.

Martin Hughes said: “I am delighted to be joining Vail Williams and am particularly looking forward to the new opportunities which will inevitably arise as a result of working in a dynamic and multi discipline environment.”

Laura said: “It is fantastic to be joining Vail Williams and I look forward to working with my new colleagues and further developing my career.”

Martin and Laura started in their new roles on Monday, February 7.

Peter Davison

Peter Davison is deputy editor of The Business Magazine. He has spent his life in journalism – doing work experience in newsrooms in and around Bristol while still at school, and landing his first job on a local newspaper aged 19. By 28 he was the youngest newspaper editor in the country. An early advocate of online news, he spent the first years of the 2000s telling his bosses that the internet posed both the biggest opportunity and greatest threat to the newspaper industry and the art of journalism. He was right on both counts. Since 2006 he has enjoyed a career as a freelance journalist. He lives in rural Wiltshire with one wife, two children, and three cats.