Property business cements its place in the market with new city offices

Property specialist, Garness Jones, has moved into new offices in York city centre.

It comes as its parent company, Garness Group, has taken a new lease in Queens House, Micklegate.

It will become the North Yorkshire operational base for the commercial property business, and the new home of long-established licensing and hospitality property specialist Barry Crux & Company, which became part of the Garness Group in 2023 and has moved from its previous offices in Castlegate.

“This is a significant step for our business,” said managing director Dave Garness. “Our work in York, and across North Yorkshire, has grown across each of our dedicated property businesses over the past few years, and that has accelerated over the past 12 months since bringing Barry Crux & Company into the group.

“Garness Jones is securing an-ever increasing number of commercial instructions across North Yorkshire, and Barry Crux is a name with an established reputation for being the leading specialists in the region in the restaurant, hotel, licensed and hospitality property sectors.

“As a business Garness Jones has grown and thrived in East Yorkshire over the past three decades because we have always had locally-based teams who have vast experience and knowledge of the commercial property market.

“This is something we believe is essential to providing the very best levels of service and advice to investors, property owners, landlords and tenants and it is why adding a dedicated office in York to our base in Hull was always part of the plan, for when the time was right.

“That time is now and it means we head into 2025 with great excitement and anticipation about further growing our commercial property businesses across Yorkshire.”

Garness Jones was established in 1996. Barry Crux & Company this year celebrated 35 years in business and has benefited from new investment as part of the Garness Group, also adding experienced licensing and leisure commercial property expert Andrew Spencer to its ranks.

Crux said: “We’ve developed a great working relationship with the Garness Jones team over the past 12 months, so now to be together, with our teams in the same office in York, we can build upon that and ensure we use our collective expertise to the full, to the benefit of both business and our clients.”