Nigel Ball

A senior real estate professional with 30 years’ experience in the lease advisory field. Prior to joing Colliers in April 2018, I worked for 12 years at BNP Paribas Real Estate, where I led the lease advisory business line, launched its licensed leisure team and was a Trustee of the pension fund.

I am an expert in the licensed & leisure market, focussed on delivering property cost reduction and value added solutions for pub and restaurant businesses, as well as advising investors with holdings in the wider leisure sector, including health & fitness, cinema, bowling and other leisure uses.

I have extensive experience of Central London pub, bar, nightclub and restaurant rent review disputes, acting either as expert witness or as Arbitrator.

I am appointed to the RICS President's panel of dispute resolvers, qualified to act as an arbitrator in pub and restaurant disputes in London and the South-East.

National team - one of my objectives at Colliers was to create a licensed leisure lease advisory team with truly national coverage.  We now have experts working out of our London, Birmingham, Manchester and Glasgow offices.

JD Wetherspoon - my teams have secured rent review savings totalling £95.5m over the last 20 years

Heritage assets -  expertise in advising clients in respect of heritage town centre assets including  recent projects at Shoreditch Town Hall, Leadenhall Market and Borough Market

Transactions - I have secured £90m of freehold assets for purchase by pub clients in the last 4 years

Property Type

Licensed & Leisure

Services

Occupier Services, Valuation & Advisory Services

Skills

Lease Advisory, Licensed & Leisure

"We’re very happy if you keep doing what you’re doing, staying alert for tying down good sites and generally adopting a hard as hell approach, keep squeezing the grapes! Your team's rent review efforts have been absolutely virtuoso over the years.”

Tim Martin, Chairman, JD Wetherspoon