Alder King announces senior promotions and new appointments

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Peter Davison

New appointments at Alder King

Commercial property consultancy Alder King has announced two senior promotions and two new appointments in its Bristol office.

James Mackay has been promoted to the newly created role of Head of Valuation and Viability. James, who joined Alder King as a graduate in 1999 and became a partner in 2013, has been responsible for the delivery of valuation services in Gloucestershire and Wiltshire since 2010.

In addition to his valuation expertise, James has over the past 13 years developed Alder King’s development viability service, acting for private developers across the UK including acting as an Expert Witness at planning appeals.

This latest promotion recognises the success James has made of these dual roles and will see him take responsibility for all valuation and viability work across the firm.

Tom Dugay, one of Bristol’s leading office agents, has been promoted to partner within Alder King’s agency team. Tom has nearly 20 years’ experience in the Greater Bristol office market and has acted for many national and regional clients including Legal & General UK Property Fund, St Monica Trust and BAE Systems. Tom is a well-known local industry figure and current committee member of the Bristol Property Agents Association (BPAA).

Alder King has also made two new appointments in its fast-growing residential development team.

Hannah Eshelby has joined the practice as a partner after eight years with JLL. Hannah will provide senior level resource to the residential development team, utilising her previous experience working for plc housebuilders, SME developers and housing associations in addition to her experience in the build to rent, co-living and student markets. Hannah also has extensive development viability experience, further extending the range of services offered to the team’s landowner and developer clients.

Sam Carson has joined the residential development team as an associate. A UWE graduate, Sam will focus on development viability, working closely with James Mackay. Sam brings valuable viability and valuation experience from his previous role at London-based Turner Morum.

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Simon Smith, Alder King senior partner and head of the firm’s development team, said: “These promotions and new appointments reflect our ongoing commitment to recognise the talent we have within our business, and also to attract the highest quality professionals in the marketplace to join our growing team.

“It is a great pleasure to recognise the valuable contribution that James and Tom have made to the business with these promotions and to provide them with the platform from which to make the step up in their careers with the firm.

“We’re also very pleased to welcome Hannah and Sam to the Alder King team. Hannah brings with her extensive experience and a very strong client following that will ensure she has a bright future with Alder King. Sam will add valuable resource to our very strong viability team, allowing us to extend the reach of our market leading service to an ever-widening client base.”

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.