Welcome back

A belated HAPPY NEW YEAR from me! Although the festive break feels like a distant memory, I hope you all had a good one and felt refreshed… some of you may still even be going strong with Dry Jan or a new fitness regime?! Whilst I recognise January has been an uncertain and challenging month, I am optimistic and excited about the year ahead.

The property perspectives event we hosted earlier in the month forecasted capital markets stabilising over the next 6 months and investor confidence growing off the back of this... hopefully leading to a positive second half of the year. That said, as much as we’d like to, we don’t control the international money markets, so we’ve focused on what we can influence..!

Chances to get more involved in 2023

With this in mind, we have pulled together an exciting list of client and office events across the year (more on that below). I am keen that we get together with, and without, clients as often as possible. We are in a people business and meaningful relationships (with clients and colleagues) can’t be engendered on Teams or via email. In addition to this, we are rolling out a number of new office-wide working groups, to give all colleagues and teams the opportunity to collaborate and communicate more. We are also refreshing and empowering the Next Gen initiative with the goal of harnessing and channelling the ambition of that group. Hopefully you are starting to get a sense of what we are trying to create;

“An inclusive, fun environment where people feel comfortable coming forward with ideas and solutions and where teams are actively collaborating to win more business.”

That’s my vision for the Leeds office and I hope you’ll buy into this as it needs us all to get involved for it to become a reality.

I look forward to hearing from you all with your ideas and initiatives!

All the best for 2023, Tom