Martin is a Partner based in our Leeds Office leading the Leeds valuation service, providing valuation and lease consultancy expertise, primarily in Yorkshire & Humberside and the Northeast. He brings extensive experience as a chartered surveyor, and takes pride in delivering carefully considered, high quality advice to all of his clients and instructions.
An RICS Registered Valuer, Martin offers valuation advice on all types of commercial properties for purposes ranging from loan security and acquisition to financial reporting, tax and compensation. Martin is an experienced expert witness, providing written and oral evidence on behalf of clients for a variety of purposes including rent dispute resolution and expert valuer appointments in matters such as rights to light and divorce cases, from initial guidance through to arbitration, independent expert, mediation and court proceedings. he has developed a particular specialism in providing diminution valuation advice to both landlords and tenants as an expert valuer in the field of terminal dilapidations claims, and he is proud to have developed a reputation as a leading proponent nationally amongst both the legal and surveying professions, advising upon properties across England and Wales.
Martin has developed extensive expertise providing valuation, rent review, lease renewal and lease re-structuring strategy advice and negotiation services upon commercial properties to a range of corporate and private clients.
Key clients
- Ineos
- Regional Reit
- Yorkshire Building Society
- Betfred
Recent projects
- Martin leads the annual national freehold 70-property portfolio asset valuation exercise for Yorkshire Building Society. He provided expert valuer representation in rights to light legal proceedings instigated against the developer in 2020 of the then tallest tower in Yorkshire.
- Martin acted as expert valuer in proceedings running over 3 years on a £12m dilapidations claim on a 240,000sqft office complex, including mediation and trial representation.
