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100 It has been five years since Property Week compiled its first Hot 100 list. The recession may have made working in property tougher, but there are still some talented youngsters who are shining brightly. To ensure they get the recognition they deserve, in partnership with law firm Irwin Mitchell, we asked you to name the under-35s in the real estate market to watch. In May and June, more than 1,000 of you voted. The results, printed over the next 10 pages, are the definitive list of the industry’s rising stars in 2012.
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Richard Howling, head of finance and operations, Jones Lang LaSalle Howling, 33, first joined the firm’s European finance team as a business studies graduate from Plymouth University in 2001. Five years later, he moved into corporate finance. In 2007, Howling became chief operations officer in JLL’s Moscow office, responsible for research, finance and marketing for the firm’s entire Commonwealth of Independent States business. He returned to London in 2009 as chief operating officer, where his role included responsibility for the fit-out subsidiary, Tetris.
Andrew Hallissey, executive director, CBRE Originally from Waterford in Ireland, Hallissey completed an MBA at DePaul University in Chicago, where he assisted the professor of real estate finance and became hooked on the industry. The 34-year-old was named executive director at CBRE last year and heads its client solutions team. He enjoys travelling to his wife’s native New Zealand.
Nicolas Massière, investment associate, Benson Elliot Born in Bordeaux and raised in the south-west of France, the 28-year-old completed an MBA at Pepperdine University in Los Angeles, before moving to London in 2008 to start his property career. He initially wanted to work in private equity. Massière joined Aerium Finance and moved to Benson Elliot in 2010.
63 Charles Curtis, investment surveyor, Finn & Co Curtis, 26, joined Finn & Co in 2010 as an investment surveyor from the Property Merchant Group. The Howard de Walden Estate is his biggest client and, in 2010, it bought 1 Portland Place for £22m, which reflected a 5.2% yield. Curtis is best known for co-founding the networking group Young Surveyors — the next Generation. Mark Pears, Mike Slade and Franco Sidoli have been among the speakers at his events.
62 Adam Coffer, managing director, EPF Group Coffer is well known as the son of leisure property expert David Coffer. The 34-year-old originally worked as a reporter for Estates Gazette before moving to work with Dick Simkin, managing director of Kier Property, to learn about development. In 2007, Coffer set up the Entrepreneurs Property Fund, pooling money from his family and other wealthy individuals. Coffer has invested £50m in retail and leisure property.
60 56 Paul Clark, divisional director, Capita Symonds At the age of 16, Clark received a scholarship to join the army and train to become an officer, but a skiing accident put an end to this plan. Instead, the 32year-old went to Nottingham University and studied urban planning. He joined Capita Symonds in 2011, to build its development team.
58 Sebastian Abigail, graduate surveyor, Knight Frank, and Elliott Sparsis, graduate surveyor, Savills Graduate surveyors Abigail, 25, and Sparsis, 27, have made a name for themselves less than two years into their careers. The pair founded Sociable Surveyors in 2010, the only all-expenses paid, global internship scheme in the property industry. It is sponsored by the RICS with Property Week as media partner. Internships are available around the world with Hammerson, Savills and Berkeley Group. Abigail lives in Paris, working in the valuation department of Knight Frank. His ambition is to be “the most respected agent in the industry”. Sparsis is 10 weeks into his job at Savills, and is writing his dissertation for an MA in commercial real estate at London South Bank University.
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Ryan Dean, partner, Knight Frank Dean, 32, is a partner in Knight Frank’s southeastern offices department and a key member of the Office Agents Society. He joined the firm in 2006 from CBRE, where he started his career as a graduate in 2003. He is an expert on the Thames Valley and the northern Home Counties, and disposed of 50,000 sq ft at former owner Prupim’s Green Park in six months.
55 Matt Smith, investment manager, Stenham Smith arrived at his present job in April 2009, after he had been made redundant from Allsop’s residential auction department after having worked there for two years. Last August, the 30-year-old bought Euston House in Eversholt Street by London’s Euston station for £42.75m, representing a 6.3% yield, where Learning Tree International is occupier.
54 Alan Gabbay, director, O&H Holdings Gabbay, 28, is director and shareholder at the company founded by his father, David Gabbay, and uncle, the late Frank Shahmoon. He joined O&H Holdings in 2006 from CBRE. The older generation gave him one of the toughest jobs in property — spending £20m on refurbishing the Ark in Hammersmith, west London. Gabbay took 18 months to make the Swedish-designed Noah’s Ark-shaped building suitable for mixed occupation. He has also just finished refinancing O&H’s £150m portfolio.
53 Michele Steel, director, Drivers Jonas Deloitte A director in the planning team in Manchester, Steel, 34, is most proud of working on the winning planning application for Lancashire cricket club to redevelop its stadium — a hard-fought battle that resulted in the Ashes returning to Old Trafford in 2013. She joined Drivers Jonas as a graduate in 2000, and says the Deloitte merger in 2010 has opened up greater career opportunities.
Steven Pollack, and Oliver Taylor, directors, Buchanan Bond Pollack, 31, and Taylor, 32, helped to launch the investment and development consultancy, Buchanan Bond. The 20 transactions they have carried out so far ranged from £1m to £5m, and three were more than that. This year’s biggest deal was acquiring the £11m Virgin Active gym in Notting Hill, west London, on behalf of ›› LaSalle Investment Management.
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