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Property

Who we are:

Edmund Smith

Corporate Property & Asset Management Surveyor

Stephen Jenkins

Building & Investment Projects Surveyor

Marianna Spanoyannis

Commercial Operations & Resource Manager

What we do:

Property

The Property Team is an in-house RICS accredited professional real estate service which provides specialist advice on all property and land related issues to both Schools and the Executive, driving best value and safeguarding the University’s interests.

Our team are responsible for developing, asset managing and running a multi-million-pound investment portfolio including retail, residential, office and science developments and properties.

We are the University's 'intelligent client' interface when managing property consultants, from planning advisors to real estate agents and lawyers.

We manage commercial real estate lettings and transactions to academic partners, companies and non-University organisations, whilst also facilitating and growing collaborative partnerships between external companies and key University faculties.

We provide property valuation expertise relating to investment and development viability decisions, Asset Valuations for financial accounting purposes, Disposals/Acquisitions, Business Rates and Buildings Insurance.  

We optimise and deliver capital receipts and rental returns from properties or land that has become surplus to the University requirements ensuring that best value is achieved and that the University future interests are protected.

Please contact propertyservices@reading.ac.uk who will be happy to assist and advise on any property related matter.

Residential Property Lettings

Commercial Property Lettings

 

Highlights:

  • Partnering with Shinfield Studios and Wokingham Council to deliver the Shinfield Studios Film Studios in Shinfield approaching nearly 1 million sqft of Studio space and 18 purpose built stages. 

  • Secured significant letting of former academic Knight building on Whiteknights Campus to RSSL/Mondelez International for use as a laboratory research facility. 

  • Secured significant letting of former academic Blandford Lodge building on Whiteknights Campus to Cambridge Educations Group Ltd. 

  • Secured significant letting of Erleigh House to Berkshire Health Care Foundation Trust as their regional hub for Speech and Language Services. 

  • Secured significant letting in Shinfield to the Natural History Museum and worked on ensuring respective planning consents for the NHM building and access road approved. 

  • Led the acquisition of farmland at Riseley and Farley totalling 829 acres on behalf of the University Farm. 

  • Managing and overseeing the strategic expansion and delivery of Thames Valley Science Park site in Shinfield Thames Valley Science Park