Property consultancy Vail Williams appoints new surveyor

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Peter Davison

Property consultancy Vail Williams has appointed surveyor Arabella Macrae in response to growing business demand.

Arabella has joined the Thames Valley agency team in its new offices at the heart of Reading town centre.

She was previously at residential and commercial agent Oakley Property in Brighton for two-and-a-half years where she was commercial lettings and sales coordinator.

Her Vail Williams responsibilities include commercial agency, acquisitions and disposals and data analysis.

Key specialisms include ‘flex space’ office disposals, digital marketing and property campaigns throughout the Thames Valley region.

She said: “I was gratified to be appointed by Vail Williams and I am looking to utilise my skill sets and experience in my new role as a Surveyor to ensure clients continue to receive a second-to-none service.”

Arabella, a psychology graduate from the University of the West of England in Bristol, added: “I am relishing being part of such a progressive and professional agency team in an exceptional firm.”

David Thomas, Thames Valley regional managing partner, said: “Arabella is a great addition to our agency team with her diligence, people skills and great communication attributes.

“We welcome her to the agency team as business continues to expand. She has a friendly and happy-to-help approach and I am expecting her to thrive in her new role.”

Vail Williams’ full-service property advice includes commercial agency, investment and development advice, building consultancy, property valuation, planning, lease advisory, property asset management, business rates and occupier consultancy.

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.