I have over 28 years experience in the Real Estate profession, focused on the North West of England but with particular emphasis on Manchester City Centre. Ten of those years was as lead Director of Lambert Smith Hampton’s Office Agency Department and after that ten years as the Principal Development, Investment, Office Agency Director at my own firm WHR. Based in Colliers Manchester office I offer a depth and breadth of commercial experience to Investors, Developers, Landlords and Occupiers with particular regard to complex mixed use scheme with a focus on procurement of Planning, Development, Letting and Disposal of City Centre office schemes. I deal with all aspects of office agency where I have been one of the principle protagonists for the evolution of Manchester’s City Centre office market. My role includes providing Developers / Investors a unique insight into occupational requirements and how they should and will influence the design criteria of complex refurbished projects as well as ground up new build schemes. I pride myself in delivering performance for Colliers clients in a competitive market place.

Douglas Bonham joined Colliers International in 2011 and is a Director and head of the Birmingham National Offices team. He provides strategic property advice to national and international clients including occupational consultancy, development and value add investment.

I am a Director in the National Offices team based in Bristol and have over 24 years experience.

Having joined Colliers in August 2008 my role has included numerous disposals and acquisitions in the South West for a myriad of clients, from large funds such as Aviva to private individuals.

I previously worked for Bidwells Business Space Agency team in Cambridge (2003 -2008) where I specialised in office and research & development disposals and acquisitions.

Before this I worked for Chesterton International Plc in Central London. After qualifying as a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in 2001, I remained in the City office agency team.

I head up the Yorkshire and North East offices team and have over 20 years agency experience specifically within the region. I have been involved in numerous high profile city centre, business park and office led mixed use developments throughout the region.

Majoring on disposal and acquisition work for a variety of Property Companies, Funds and occupiers, I have also been prevalent in providing development advice on mixed use and regeneration projects throughout the region.

I also provide development consultancy and strategy advice to a number of local authorities, education institutions and charities.

I have worked with and agreed comprehensive multi-site 5 year Property Strategy Review Programmes with two large UK Financial Services occupiers within the past 5 years. 

Guy has been involved with the commercial property market in the North of England for 36 years, initially as an agent, and more recently as a development consultant and client manager responsible for the provision of strategic property advice across a range of service lines. His clients include property companies, corporates, developers , public sector organisations and funding institutions. Guy has also worked client-side as the Northern Acquisitions Director for Regus Plc.

Guy has also been involved in numerous large scale development schemes (eg. Princes Exchange-Leeds , Asvanced Manufacturing Park-South Yorkshire, Digital Campus-Sheffield and Holbeck Urban Village, Leeds). He has also handled some of the regions largest land disposals (eg. 200+ acres for the NHS, 33 acres to a global aero-engine manufacturer and recently, 8 acres in Leeds' South Bank).

Industrial & Logistics property specialist, based in Edinburgh with a focus on the east of Scotland - covering acquisition, disposal, development and general agency advice.

Considerable experience across various other sectors, including disposal and acquisition/re-gear of city centre and business park offices, development land disposals and Scotland wide retail disposals.

Ian has over 20 years experience in the business space sector undertaking instructions on behalf of a wide range of clients to include; national/local property companies, private clients and corporate occupiers. He has a broad depth of experience across the office sector having completed a range of disposals and acquisitions in some of Belfast's highest profile Grade A buildings. His experience also extends across the industrial sector where he has acted on behalf of landlords and occupiers.