Darren joined Christie + Co’s Birmingham office as a valuer in 2001 and moved to Leeds in 2004 as Valuation Services Manager. He went on to be appointed as the Location Manager of the Leeds office in 2005 before making the move to London in 2007 to take up the position of national head of Valuation Services.

During his time at Christie + Co, he has worked on a variety of valuation projects on a local, regional and national scale, gaining substantial experience across all six of our trading sectors. Darren studied for a degree in Urban Land Economics in Sheffield and is an MRICS qualified Chartered Surveyor.

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Daniel graduated with a BSc (Hons) degree in Urban Estate Management and started his career in the telecomms industry as an acquisition surveyor. He joined Christie + Co in 2004, working in the retail department at the Winchester office. He moved into the corporate retail team in 2006 to complement the corporate acquisition and disposal service across the south of England.

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Chris Day joined Christie + Co in 1985 and, having worked in the Manchester, Birmingham and London Offices, was appointed Managing Director in 1993. He has overall responsibility for all Christie + Co's specialist transactional and advisory activities. Chris has overseen the successful expansion of Christie + Co into a truly pan European firm, which currently has 17 offices in the UK and 12 International offices.

Based in the London office, Chris has particular responsibility for our international operations and he travels regularly. He specialises in the sale and valuation of hotels, public houses and restaurants and has led teams handling numerous disposal and valuation assignments for many high profile clients.

Chris commenced his career in the property profession in 1975, qualifying as a Chartered Surveyor in 1980. In recent years he was Chairman of the Central London Branch of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, and was also a member of the Surveyors Panel advising the British Association of Hotel Accountants on the measurement of the Tangible Fixed Assets for the Hotel industry.

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Simon joined Christie + Co in 1987 from the hotel industry and has worked in our Nottingham, Glasgow, Bristol and London Offices. He was previously Office Manager at both Bristol and London and now has specific responsibility for our agency and professional services activity across our 16 UK regional offices. Simon has a broad knowledge of all our sectors, especially hotels, where he has worked with major clients such as Hilton, Whitbread, Marston Hotels and the Pederson Group.

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Nigel joined Christie + Co from The Cooperative Group, where he was senior acquisitions manager with responsibility for the South East region. Based in our Victoria Street office in London, Nigel’s remit is to develop our corporate business across Greater London, the South East and East Anglia, as well as investigating opportunities for brownfield and greenfield site development, which is an area of particular interest for many of our corporate clients.

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Jon joined Christie + Co in 1984 and has extensive experience of the sale and valuation of leisure businesses, together with the development of leisure and hospitality property involving both solus and mixed-use schemes. He has worked in our Leeds, Newcastle and London Offices, being instrumental in the development of our corporate pubs business in the early 1990s. In 1995 Jon established Christie + Co’s Leisure and Development business working throughout the UK with numerous operators, developers and investors including the likes of Academy Leisure, Aprirose, BDL Hotels, Berkeley Group, Candu, Clermont Leisure, CTP St James, Esporta, Harrison Developments, Jurys Doyle Hotels, Kew Green Hotels, McAleer & Rushe, Moto Hospitality, Muse Developments, Neptune Developments, Nexum, Opus Land, Oxford Hotels, Regent Inns, Rushbond, St Modwen, Starboard Hotels, and Urban Splash.

London Office >

David joined Christie + Co in 1972 and was Managing Director prior to the formation of Christie Group in 1985 when he was appointed Group Managing Director and later Chief Executive. David is Chairman of Christie + Co and has many years’ experience in the sale and valuation of businesses. In particular, he has extensive experience of the hotel sector worldwide.

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Allen joined Christie + Co in 1999, having previously worked for two specialist business sales agencies in the north of England. He has more than 16 years’ business sales experience and was invited to join the Corporate Retail Department in January 2005, where he soon became a Director. Based in our Leeds office, Allen is strategically located to offer advice to multiple and corporate operators across the north of England. He is also Christie + Co’s petrol filling stations specialist, dealing with the sale and acquisition of forecourt sites throughout the country for corporate, multiple and independent clients. Working with the local offices, he has enjoyed considerable success in this growing area of business.

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Matthew joined Christie + Co in 2005 and was made an Associate Director earlier this year. Prior to joining the company, Matthew worked for Boots the Chemists, Lloyds TSB and Somerfield in their property departments, where he dealt with valuations, acquisitions, landlord & tenant and estate management issues. In June he was appointed to develop Christie + Co’s Corporate Retail team’s valuation and advisory activities.

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