William is a Partner in Newmark’s Operational Real Estate team based in our London head office. He specialises in advising on valuation, estate strategy, development, acquisition and disposal advice in respect of educational, charity, healthcare and other institutional and operational properties.
William regularly advises on universities, FE colleges, student accommodation, schools, care homes and ecclesiastical property as well as more traditional property assets such as residential and development land.
William is the firm’s UK lead on Further Education. His expertise includes valuation for loan security, financial reporting, estate strategy and due diligence for mergers and acquisitions. He provides strategic estates advice including purchase and disposal of surplus assets.
William provides specialist valuation advice to charities and not-for-profit organisations and is a Designated Adviser for the purposes of The Charities Act.
Recent Projects
Valuations of University of Wales Trinity St David, University of Gloucester, University of Brighton, LSE and others. Retained as specialist agent for identifying higher educational tenants for Canary Wharf Group. Sale of student accommodation in Norham Gardens Oxford, and sale of More House, Cromwell Road, South Kensington on behalf of a religious order. William advised the charity on the viability of the student centre before acting as their selling agent for the sale of the freehold of the surplus asset, releasing valuable funds to the charity. Valuation of 13 FE colleges across central and outer London for Capital City College Group, London’s largest FE provider. Sale of the former Centre for Health, Social and Child Care, a former FE college in Islington extending to 50,000 sq ft which sold for redevelopment 1 Mark Street, Stratford. He advised on value and negotiated the variation of a restrictive covenant and subsequently sold the freehold interest of the 30,000 sq ft building to an international higher education institution.