Our People

Tony has a degree in Urban Estate Surveying and joined Christie + Co’s Nottingham office in August 1988, having previously worked for a national firm of estate agents. He spent periods managing, the Bristol and Winchester offices during the late ‘90s and was made a director of the company in December 2002.

Tony has successfully expanded in line with the company’s increasing brokerage and advisory activity. Today, Christie + Co has an established reputation within the retail industry and works on a wide variety of projects in the convenience, CTN, off licence, forecourt, post office and pharmacy sectors.

Alastair joined Christie + Co in 2011 having spent the first three years of his career working in Dubai and Bahrain. He is based in our London office where he undertakes valuations and consultancy work for Christie + Co’s Corporate Retail team, considering a wide range of properties including pharmacies, petrol filling stations, and convenience stores across the country.

Alastair is an MRICS qualified Chartered Surveyor and Registered Valuer, having previously attained a degree in Economics from the University of Bristol and a Masters in Real Estate Management from Oxford Brookes University.

Allen joined Christie + Co in 1999, having previously worked for two specialist business sales agencies in the north of England. He has more than 19 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 core part of our retail business.

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 global firm, which currently has 25 offices throughout Europe and in the Middle East.

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 is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and member of the International Society of Hospitality Consultants (ISHC). He commenced his career in the property profession in 1975, qualifying as a Chartered Surveyor in 1980. In recent years he has chaired the Central London Branch of the RICS, and is currently a member of the London Regional Board of the RICS.

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.

Darren joined Christie + Co’s Birmingham office as a valuer in 2001, before moving to Leeds in 2004 as Valuation Services Manager and latterly Location Manager of the Leeds office in 2005.

In January 2007 Darren moved to London to take up the position of national head of Valuation Services and now has overall responsibility for our national team of valuers, our appointments to bank valuation panels, RICS regulation and compliance and the Company’s Professional Indemnity Insurance.

Darren is a RICS qualified Chartered Valuation Surveyor, a Registered Valuer and also enjoys participating as an APC Assessor for the RICS. 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. In particular, he has extensive experience in the valuation of petrol forecourts, holiday & caravan parks and the pharmacy & medical sectors.

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.

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, Berkeley Group, Esporta, Fitness4Less, FX Leisure, GL-14 Group, Genr8, Grantside Developments, Harrison Developments, Leeds City Council, Moto Hospitality, Neptune Developments, Nexum, Nuffield Health, Opus Land, Oxford Hospitality, Rushbond Group, St Modwen, Starboard Hotels and Tesco.

Having started his career in the hotel industry, Simon Hughes moved into the property sector more than 20 years ago and joined Christie + Co in 1987. Originally employed as a hotel sector specialist, Simon has worked with a broad range of clients over the years — from independent hotel owners through to some of the most recognisable operators, including Hilton, Whitbread and Marston Hotels.

Initially based in the Nottingham office, Simon subsequently spent periods working in the Glasgow, Bristol and London offices, where he developed a full understanding of Christie + Co’s service offerings and a broad knowledge of all our specialist sectors. Having successfully managed the London operation for a number of years, he was appointed UK Managing Director in 2005. Simon now has overall responsibility for Christie + Co’s full range of agency and advisory services activity across the network of 14 regional offices. He is also responsible for directing the activities of Christie + Co’s sister company Christie Finance.

Simon continues to take an active role in client projects, most recently focusing on the development of business in the retail sector, where he has been instrumental in Christie + Co’s expansion into the forecourt and pharmacy markets.