Property agents make a splash with office building sale and unit acquisition for Olympic-athlete led swimming company

Yorkshire property consultants Dove Haigh Phillips (DHP) has completed two major deals involving the sale of an office building to a private investor and the acquisition of a unit for an Olympic-athlete led swimming company.

The Leeds office of DHP has sold Sanderson House at Grange Moor, near Huddersfield, for £565,000 to a private investor, while also acquiring a unit for Total Swimming in Warrington.

The 8,261 sq ft Sanderson House is occupied by Sanderson Associates and is located close to the Grange Moor Roundabout, which links Huddersfield, Wakefield and Barnsley. Nearby occupiers include Bon Marche, Oakwood Kitchens and NK Chemicals.

Meanwhile Total Swimming, which is run by Olympians Steve Parry and Adrian Turner, has leased a 3,800 sq ft unit at Chetham Court in Winwick Quay Business Park, Warrington in a deal brokered by DHP.

Simon Dove, of Dove Haigh Phillips, said: “These are two interesting and significant deals for us, which illustrate our strengths in two different sectors and regions.

“Sanderson House is a superb acquisition, a well-located, detached office building
with a strong tenant, while Total Swimming are a rapidly expanding company, whose innovative approach to teaching swimming and promoting a healthy lifestyle, is proving very successful.”

“Overall, the recent uncertainty caused by Brexit, and now fuelled by the General Election, is not disrupting the property market too much. We are busy, working on deals from small industrial and office units to large land transactions – and everything in between,” he added.