Butler joins IM Properties as project manager

IM Properties has appointed Daniel Butler as project manager, providing additional support for its development team.

Butler joins the Coleshill-based firm from the Birmingham office of Colliers International, where he has spent 15 years.

He is currently working on a number of properties across the UK, including sites in Edinburgh, Solihull and Bath.

He said: “As a flexible and forward-facing company, IM Properties offers a diversity and scale across its portfolio that you can’t find anywhere else. The unique nature of the business means that we can identify opportunities and move on them incredibly quickly, even in the current, restrictive market.

“IM Properties has recently seen an increase in the number of projects coming to fruition with an element of construction delivery and I’m looking forward to the challenges and opportunities that these developments will bring.”

Malby leaves Earlplace for Greywell

WARWICKSHIRE-based developer Greywell Property has made a senior appointment to its team.

Tim Malby has joined the company to boost its current expansion in the residential and commercial sectors.

Malby joins from Earlplace where he was managing director and oversaw developments in Leamington, Stratford, Coventry, Birmingham and Bristol.

He said: “Greywell has a great platform for expansion – it has robust funding, considerable experience and some very exciting development opportunities.
“It has proved itself very adept at spotting successful opportunities and developing them effectively even in a very poor market.”

Rupert Hopcraft, Greywell’s managing director, said: “Greywell has proven itself with some highly successful schemes in Leamington, Warwick, Tysoe and further afield in Salcombe and is now achieving encouraging pre-sales at our Henley Grange project in Henley in Arden.

“The time is right to look to grow further and Tim’s wealth of experience and reputation in the Midlands region is just what we need to achieve that.”

Third director as Brooke Smith Planning expands

BROOKE Smith Planning has appointed former Birmingham City Council planning and regeneration officer Liz Ellis as its third director.

Ellis comes to the Edgbaston-based consultancy as an associate director from Malvern Hills District Council, where she led a team of ten staff in planning and development control.

She joins the leadership team of company founder Louise Brooke-Smith and director Will Charlton. The appointment coincides with a marked upturn in business for the firm.

Ellis, a chartered town planner, has previously worked on a number of Birmingham’s high profile regeneration projects. They include the redevelopment of the Eastside district of the city, Curzon Park, a brownfield urban regeneration site comprising 130,000 sq m of residential, office, hotel and retail development, and Eastside Locks.

Ami Kundi moves from LSH to GBR Phoenix Beard Residential

AMI Kundi has joined GBR Phoenix Beard Residential as a senior surveyor in the Birmingham office. 

He joins from Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH) where he was involved in management of residential and mixed-use portfolios for a number of well-known national housing developers and property investors.  Prior to his two years at LSH, Ami worked at Bruton Knowles, and brings more than nine years’ experience in real estate and block management.

He said: “GBR Phoenix Beard Residential has made a big impression on the residential property management scene within a relatively short space of time, and I am really looking forward to playing a role in the on-going expansion of the client base. 

“I am particularly attracted to joining an entrepreneurial business, and being able to make a real difference to the team here.”