Property appointments: Mills & Reeve; GP Surveyors; LCF

THE real estate team at national law firm Mills & Reeve’s Leeds office has made two promotions, seven months after the team’s inception.

Senior real estate solicitor, Alison Howarth, has been promoted to associate and Celia Pavitt has been promoted to solicitor.

Howarth joined the firm from DAC Beachcroft in February and was a founding member of Mills & Reeve’s real estate team in Leeds. Pavitt  joined Mills & Reeve earlier this year after six years at Addleshaw Goddard and has particular experience in asset management, advising institutional investment funds and asset managers.

Partner and head of the real estate team, Simon Sherwood, said: “Alison is fully deserving of the associate role. To receive this recognition at a highly regarded national firm in the short space of time she has been here demonstrates her ability, especially when taking into account the rigorous process involved in achieving associate at Mills & Reeve.

“Celia’s promotion to solicitor is also a much deserved advancement and testament to the first-rate work she has done to support the real estate team in its first year in Leeds.”
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GP Surveyors has appointed three new members of staff at its head office in Sheffield.

The chartered surveyors for doctors’ surgeries and children’s nurseries in the UK has appointed Nick Dalby as operations director following 11 years at Insight UK.
Maria Howarth joins GP Surveyors from EDS as team administrator and Joe Ellis joins the company from Intraining as a new client manager. James Williams has been promoted from principal surveyor to associate director and the company said it is continuing its recruitment drive.
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JULIE Davis has been appointed as the new head of residential property at LCF Residential – the conveyancing division of law firm Last Cawthra Feather (LCF) which has offices in Leeds, Bradford and Ilkley.

Davis succeeds former senior partner Jonathan Wright who has recently retired but remains as a consultant at the firm.

She has almost 30 years’ experience in the industry and has previously worked for Emsleys Solicitors, Fox Hayes, Blacks and Shulmans.

LCF Residential has also strengthened its team with the appointment of two lawyers Sabrina Knapton and Zoey Panesar and one trainee lawyer Laura Poole.