Property people: Cowell joins OBI ; Baucher makes partner

OBI Property, the expanding Manchester real estate consultancy has hired Andrew Cowell.

Cowell  has joined the OBI’s transactions and asset management team working alongside founder Will Lewis, Richard Lace and Emma Powell.

Cowell has spent the last two years with MEPC/Patriza on Birchwood Park, Warrington and Wellington Place, Leeds.  Previous to that, he led the city centre leasing team at Bruntwood for eight years, where he worked on a number of key assets including City Tower, Manchester One, No1 Portland Street and Lowry House.

Richard Lace from OBI Property said: “We are delighted to be welcoming Andrew to the OBI team.  We have recently been awarded a number of asset management positions and Andrew’s skillset and experience in both leasing and asset management will really strengthen our offer. 

“We enjoyed a strong 2014 and have started this year really well. This appointment is a really positive move for the firm and our clients.”

Cowell said: “I am looking forward to working with the OBI Property team, the firm continues to progress and has ambitious plans for the future.  To be given the chance to be part of the team was too good an opportunity to pass up and I am relishing the challenges that lie ahead.”

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CUSHMAN  & Wakefield has promoted Manchester-based Jonathan Baucher to partner.

The firm said the promotion followed Baucher’s significant contribution to the company, which last year saw him complete some of the largest and most important office deals in the North including the 106,000 sq ft letting to law firm Slater Gordon – Manchester’s largest office letting in almost a decade – and the 70,500 sq ft letting to UtilityWise, which was the largest office letting of last year in Newcastle.

 On the acquisition front, he has been advising BUPA and completed a number of other transactions including 24,000 sq ft for Ford Credit at No 1 First Street.

Baucher joined C&W’s Manchester nine years ago and is head of office agency covering all regional markets across the north. He has acted for a number of both high profile landlords and occupiers such as Commercial Development Projects, Amec, Bupa, BSkyB, Eversheds, LateRooms and Allied London.

He said: “2014 was an exceptional and very exciting year for us as we saw a real surge in requirements and successfully negotiated a number of important deals that reflected the upturn in market conditions.  I am confident that this renewed confidence in the northern office market will continue over the next 12 months and I look forward to the new challenges that lie ahead.”

Ben Roberts, partner and head of C&W Manchester, addsd: “Jonathan has proven to be a valuable member of our northern team and we are very pleased that he has been awarded this promotion, which he deserves.”

 

 

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