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A SELECT PROPERTY GROUP BRAND
Take a generational shift in attitude to UK property, a city primed for growth, a revolutionary property company, and you have something very special‌
AFFINIT Y LIVING RIVERVIEW The 318-apartment, 35-storey development rises high from the city’s most prized location and stands tall for all to see on the skyline. It comprises over 1,100 sq m of exclusive communal facilities and apartments crafted to a higher standard than those found elsewhere in the UK’s top-performing city. Only Select Property Group is capable of delivering a market-leading branded property concept.
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We’re unique in the property world. We don’t accommodate tenants, we serve customers. Unlike tenants, customers are considered, always right, and vote with their feet. Customers have loyalty.
A very diferent customer focused approach Our commitment to understanding the customer is unrivalled and unrelenting. Before they set foot in our residences, we’ve walked a mile in their shoes, identifying the lifestyle elements that are so important to them. We seek the locations, environments and spaces they want to live in. Bring together the world’s leading architects and constructors to create the communities they want to live in. Once the customer has their home, we give them the lifestyle they want. There is so much more to property management than holding keys. The key is managing communities and exceeding customer expectations. The higher their satisfaction, the higher your returns. So, how do you keep people satisied? Quite simply it’s about experience. Making people smile. Our in-house hospitality teams deliver award-winning experiences and provide the ongoing connection with the needs of the rent-paying customer.
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An approach that’s shifting standards, changing industries Five years ago, Select Property Group identiied an opportunity to improve the purpose-built student rental sector. We took the revolutionary step of making the student tenant feel like a customer. The student’s needs were front of mind when we searched for a location, designed the building, oversaw the construction process and when we recruited and implemented our own management team. The resultant Vita Student brand changed the industry. We improved standards so much, our brand not only changed student expectations, it changed international perceptions of a whole industry. Global institutions now spend over £6 billion a year on the investment class and Vita Student is still the market leader.
THE NEW OPPORTUNIT Y
100% tenancy Rental premiums 25% above the industry average
Vita Student became the market leader by focusing on the customer and delivering uniform levels of high performance. It produced investments built on 100% tenancy and longevity. The same model can be applied to the mainstream residential market – an opportunity ten times as large. You just need to identify a customer.
A rebooking rate 59% higher than the industry average Won national customer service awards, beating The Dorchester, Barclays Premier, LV= and RBS £169 million debt secured for future expansion
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The customer Generation Y: A new nation of renters who choose to consume, not own.
Generation Y, the millennials, 20 to 39-year-olds, are going to university in record numbers, starting work later in life and are six times more likely to live alone than 40 years ago. The average age of new mothers has surpassed 30 and there’s an inevitable trend of parenthood being delayed until the early 40s. Generation Y don’t want to be tied down with longterm mortgages, nor linger in the same job. They value lexibility and amenities that make life easier. They choose to consume, not own. Cars are pay as you drive, software in the cloud, music on Spotify. Netlix fees are about to surpass Hollywood Box Oice igures for the irst time. It’s truly a generational change – and it is inally afecting British home ownership and the wider property market. Home ownership levels are the lowest in 30 years. Demand for rented accommodation has increased by 17,500 every month over the past decade. The UK’s private rented sector is currently at a record size. And it’s growing: almost 60% of 20 to 39-year-olds will be privately renting by 2025.
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Demanding Ainity Living
For the past 100 years, the UK equated home ownership with success. This meant, unlike other countries, there’s never been any need to question the suitability of rental accommodation. Consequently, current rental stock is wrong. Buy-to-let mortgages have repurposed residential properties; properties originally designed and built for other generations, built for family life, built to own. A new generation now demands a purpose-built intervention. Generation Y wants build-to-rent and Ainity Living.
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NECESSARY CHANGE AND HOME OF THE FUTURE
Build to Rent The purpose-built solution for Generation Y
This rental generation, which will comprise 7.2 million households by 2025, has no aspiration or intention to own a house but it craves a home which relects a modern lifestyle. Build-to-rent is the answer. A residential property, purposebuilt to be rented. It syncs with city centre life, has large bedrooms and open plan living spaces. It provides like-minded neighbours and must-have modern facilities, such as gyms and home-working suites. All professionally maintained 24 hours a day. A modern tenant inds build-to-rent superior to old-fashioned suburban family houses and outdated residential blocks in every way.
Residential as a % of Institutional Real Estate Portfolios Globally
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10
Australia
20
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4%
Canada
6%
Denmark
10%
Germany
12%
Sweden
12%
France
12% 18%
Japan
Build-to-rent developments are always well maintained due to their ongoing professional management. This makes it more attractive to both new and existing tenants and ensures void rates are much lower, and capital growth higher, than standard private rented stock.
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10%
United Kingdom
Finland
BUILD-TO-RENT: A HIGHER STANDARD OF RENTAL ACCOMMODATION
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19%
USA
25%
Netherlands
46%
Switzerland
47% Source: IPD, 2014
BUILD-TO-RENT: A GOVERNMENT AIM AND INSTITUTIONAL GROWTH
FROM THIS POINT ON, BUILD-TO-RENT IS UK PROPERTY INVESTMENT
The UK government recognises the need for new long-term, professional property as non-ownership and renting is so widespread. Various acts of parliament have changed the UK’s private rented sector, reducing the reliance on amateur landlords and re-purposed owner-occupier stock. This leads to a more professionally regulated sector – one creating new opportunities for investors.
Now is the time to invest in branded product in this growing industry that will eventually change the £1 trillion private rented sector. Knight Frank believes in just four years, buildto-rent will already be worth £50 billion. Be part of the future of UK property investment. This is a point in time when asking prices are lowest and years of yield generation and price growth are ahead. It’s as future proof as any investment can be. It’s a simple investment in the future.
Across the world, build-to-rent is largely funded by large-scale inancial institutions. This hasn’t yet happened in the UK due to the country’s past preference for home ownership, but given the pace of the rental market’s expansion, the rapidly rising yields and the government backing for a more regulated rental sector, institutions can no longer aford not to be involved.
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While location and amenities are part of the proposition, the best communities and those that are sustainable, bring people of similar characteristics together. They are built on friendships, shared experiences and community spirit.
THE AFFINITY LIVING SOLUTION: DESIGNED FOR A NEW GENERATION This is the brand the build-to-rent market has been waiting for. It’s about living not renting.
“ A neighbourhood has to have a heart and a soul and you can only create that through the quality of design and the intent that goes behind that design. Our approach to residential development is very much about creating a community within the buildings themselves, but we know that it’s just as important to make a connection to the greater community.” CATHY MOCKE SELECT PROPERTY GROUP, DESIGN DIRECTOR
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60% more 25 to 29-year-olds live in Manchester than the UK average.
80% of people living in Manchester city centre now privately rent and 70% of the population is classed . as BINKY - Big Income, No Kids Yet
58% Wherever Generation Y is, there is a huge requirement for build-to-rent.
Where are Generation Y choosing to live? Manchester – a market primed for build-to-rent
Manchester will be the UK’s irst build-to-rent city. 58% of Manchester’s graduates stay in the city permanently. That’s almost 20,000 new Generation Y workers a year looking for a home. Every year. The city’s population is rising quicker than anywhere outside of London and 2.85 million people will live there by 2025. Aspirational and career-focused young people are naturally drawn to Manchester’s media, inancial and professional sectors and 89% of the rising population is made up of Generation Y. The proportion of Manchester’s population that needs build-to-rent accommodation is almost four times the national average. Even in the early stages of the build-torent market, HSBC has identiied Manchester as the home of the UK’s highest property yields.
of graduates from the Greater Manchester universities enter employment in the local area. That’s almost 20,000 new workers a year. Every year.
The supply and demand situation: A BUILD-TO-RENT MARKET THAT’S GROWING EVERY DAY
• 85% of people living in Manchester city centre now privately rent • The population is rising quicker than any city outside of London and 2.85 million people will live there by 2025
A SUPPLY THAT CAN’T KEEP PACE
• City targets state Manchester needs 4,000 new build-to-rent units a year • Only 1,417 annual units are set for delivery over the next eight years
GOLDEN DEMOGRAPHIC LEADS TO THE HIGHEST YIELDS
AGE GROUPS (%)
• Two-thirds of this supply is still subject to planning
ENGLAND
MANCHESTER
14%
The number 1 investment city
13%
• £8.2 billion: more commercial investment than any regional city – CBRE
10% 9% 8%
• The top regional city for property investment – Savills
7% 6%
• The best place to invest for the next decade – House Simple
5% 4% 3%
• Capital of the £56 billion ROI plans for the northern powerhouse
2% 1%
90+
85-89
80-84
75-79
70-74
65-69
60-64
55-59
50-54
45-49
40-44
35-39
30-34
25-29
20-24
15-19
10-14
5-9
1-4
0%
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PERCENTAGE OF POPULATION
11%
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Riverview Living at the Gateway to Manchester’s Future
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An opportunity for a landmark building in Manchester city centre Set to be one of Manchester’s tallest buildings, Ainity Living Riverview is a 35-storey tower positioned on a prime riverside site the city planners identiied as “an opportunity for a landmark building”. Planners wanted a gateway building to match the stature of the location and Ainity Living Riverview was selected because it’s a signiicant architectural addition to the Manchester skyline. Its build-to-rent features also invite social and recreational outdoor activities that add to the area’s lively sense of community.
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Northern Quarter 0.9 miles (18-min walk) Social & entertainment
Printworks 0.7 miles (14-min walk) Social & entertainment
Arndale Centre Manchester Town Hall 0.6 miles (11-min walk) Commerce centre
Manchester Arena 0.7 miles (14-min walk) Social & entertainment
Selfridges King Street 0.5 miles (10-min walk) Retail centre Deansgate
CitySuites
Lowry Hotel (5 Star)
0.6 miles ( 5-min walk)
0.1 miles (1-min walk)
0.4 miles (6-min walk) Commerce centre
Deansgate
Riverview
Spinningields 0.3 miles (5-min walk) Commerce centre
Positioned for city centre lifestyles The development will occupy a strategic gateway site, which connects Manchester city centre and Salford – the new £1 billion home of the BBC. Its central location next to Manchester’s CBD also ofers residents proximity to public transport, places of work – including the city’s major inancial hub Spinningields – retail, and culture.
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ENTER R I V E RV I E W and TA K E T H E T O U R Communal space is missing from traditional UK rental stock and is a key beneit of build-to-rent. Ainity Living devotes ive times more loor space to communal areas than even other build-to-rent developments. The value the market places on having the ability to follow their interests and structure their own social life within one building community adds to the value of the investment. All its exclusive features are designed to encourage residents to put down roots and renew their tenancies, ultimately lowering voids and increasing rental premiums.
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1,100 SQ M of added value Ainity Living devotes ive times more loor space to value-adding facilities than other build-to-rent developments. The brand knows the importance of social interaction to the social generation and provides communal areas where residents can relax, work, interact and enjoy themselves. Customers immediately identify this value and this adds value to the investment.
GROUND FLOOR RECEPTION, LOUNGE, CAFÉ 200 SQM. RETAIL SPACE 190 SQM.
The open plan lounge café is accessible to non-residents and manned by Ainity Living staf. It serves as an informal residents’ meeting area and has south-facing external terraces and full height glazing to maximise views and activity along the river walkway.
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MEZZANINE CO-WORKING LOUNGE 142 SQM. MEETING ROOM 31 SQM.
A ground and mezzanine restaurant provides active frontage along the river walkway, incorporating southfacing, external seating that overlooks the river. The co-working lounge enables residents to work from home, with their collaborators. It’s an inspirational space complete with private meeting rooms, open and relaxed seating and shared work benches.
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MEZZANINE GYM 162 SQM. RETAIL UNIT 128 SQM.
A fully equipped private gym negates the cost of expensive membership fees. Residents can also organise their own classes or personal training sessions.
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ROOFTOP PRIVATE DINING ROOMS 52 AND 42 SQM. LOUNGE AND MEDIA ROOM 42 SQM. OUTDOOR TERRACE 150 SQM.
Housed within a full height glazed box that appears to loat above the main building, two private dining rooms will interconnect with a lounge and media room. The largest private dining room cantilevers out over the elevation, ofering framed city and riverscape views. A large roof terrace contained behind a full height glass screen ofers panoramas across the city and surrounding landscape.
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Tech and customer focused touchpoints enhance the living experience 33
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AN AFFINIT Y LIVING APP THAT CONTROLS EVERY THING FROM SOCIAL ENGAGEMENTS TO RENT PAYMENTS AND ALSO PROVIDES FURTHER LIFEST YLE DATA MANNED COLD STORAGE MAKES 24-HOUR ONLINE GROCERY SHOPPING SIMPLE CLICK AND GO UTILITIES PROVIDER - SELECT A TARIFF AND FLICK THE SWITCH MOBILE PHONE ENTRY SYSTEM USB PORTS AND CHARGING TABLES RELIABLE, FAST INTERNET THROUGHOUT DRY CLEANING & LAUNDRY DROP-OFF SERVICE BIKE STORE & BIKE PARKING INTERACTIVE MESSAGE BOARDS AND AFFINIT Y LIVING ONLINE COMMUNIT Y
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ROO M FOR GROW T H Ainity Living apartments bring to the market a piece of city centre life currently missing. Residents enjoy quality, versatility, space and character in their surroundings.
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Customerfocused design: Highly liveable spaces. Architects have designed contemporary, spacious apartments that enable each resident to express their own vision and fashion their home around their lifestyle. The iner details are important and the furnishing and design of Ainity Living Riverview is informed by the taste and preferences of its target market. Following extensive research Ainity Living apartments are furnished to maximise their appeal to prospective renters. Underloor heating, high-quality beds, mattresses, bedside cabinets, itted wardrobes, dining tables, chairs, sofas, cofee tables, fridges, freezers, dishwashers and microwaves are provided. This ensures properties are turnkey ready, but also allows tenants space to bring small furniture and decoration to their home.
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The inish and design Ainity Living Riverview is of a higher standard than found elsewhere in the Manchester rental market. The quality and comfort evokes a sense of home and helps add to the longevity of the investment.
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Open plan rooms larger than market standard Ainity Living properties provide more luid space than market competitors. The design omits obtrusive walkways and maximises the use of every square metre.
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Selected for longevity As well as being highly desirable, operating expense is factored into the initial design. Cabinet doors, cupboard fronts, ventilation ilters, handles, taps and other components are highly durable, but can also be quickly and easily replaced.
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Ainity Living Riverview: Maximising the return on investment of UK residential property How your yield is calculated
2-YEAR RENTAL INSURANCE Ainity Living investments are ofered with an assured rental return. For two years while the development establishes itself in the market, you will receive assured rental yields of 6% NET. This is around 50% higher than the standard UK residential yield of 4%. The assured 6% is the absolute minimum you will receive during the irst two years.
• Monthly rent: £1,695 • Standard tenancy length: 12 months • Gross annual income: £20,940 • Annual management costs: £3,840*
Price (£)
Capital appreciation (%)*
Rental yield (%)
Pre-completion
275,000
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Year 1
316,250
3
6
16,500
Year 2
325,728
3
6
16,500
Year 3
335,510
3
6
16,500
Year 4
345,575
3
6
16,500
Year 5
355,942
3
6
16,500
Total appreciation:
80,942
Rental income (£)
Total return:
163,442
Total rent: 82,500
Return on Investment: 59%
Predicted
Price (£)
Capital appreciation (%)*
Rental yield (%)
Pre-completion
275,000
20
Year 1
330,000
7
6
16,500
Year 2
353,100
7
6
16,500
Year 3
377,817
7
7
19,250
Year 4
404,264
7
7
19,250
Year 5
432,563
7
7
19,250
Total appreciation: 157,563
Ainity Living Riverview is a fully managed property investment. Investor yields are net of all management costs. These include the day-to-day maintenance and upkeep of the building to a market-leading standard, access and usage of amenities, all costs associated with marketing and letting properties, and the management of tenants and their payments.
ESTIMATE BASED ON A 1 BEDROOM PROPERTY PRICED AT £275,000
Conservative
Total return:
Rental income (£)
Total rent: 90,750
248,313
Return on Investment: 90%
Positive
Price (£)
Capital appreciation (%)*
Rental yield (%)
Pre-completion
275,000
20
Year 1
330,000
9
6
16,500
Year 2
359,700
9
6
16,500
Year 3
392,073
9
8
22,000
Year 4
427,360
9
8
22,000
Year 5
465,822
9
8
22,000
Total appreciation: 190,822 Total return:
Rental income (£)
Total rent: 99,000
289,822
Return on Investment: 105%
*Capital appreciation based on the 7.4% annual rate recorded to May 2016
• Net Annual income: £16,500 3-YEAR STAGED PAYMENT PLAN: 50% ON COMPLETION
* Total estimated annual costs includes ground rent and estimated service
charges, as well as the estimated apportionment of variable costs payable by the property owner for all Ainity Living managed amenities and services, including associated management fees.
Note: While estimates of income and costs are researched and prepared with great care they are provided as a general guide only and subject to change. Minimum 6% net yield is assured for the irst 2 years following completion
Payment plan:
Example purchase of £275,000 apartment:
• £5,000 reservation fee now
• £5,000 now
• 20% on exchange – 30 days after reservation
• £55,000 on exchange
• 15% September 2017
• £41,250 in September 2017
• 15% September 2018
• £41,250 in September 2018
• Balance on completion Q4 2019
• £132,500 in Q4 2019
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A proven investment from Select Property Group
Select Property Group is unique. It both develops and manages a residence designed for a speciic market to an award-winning standard.
THE REVOLUTIONARY APPROACH To create a great property investment, the tenant needs to be at the centre of the ofering. From location, through to facilities, property layout to customer service. Operating since 2004 the Group’s success is underpinned by a clear vision to develop market-leading brands that align customer needs with investor returns. Key to this strategy is an unswerving commitment to understanding the end customer. This approach enables the Group to develop brands that are relevant, authentic and diferent. Crucially they then become trusted brands. This trust engenders customer loyalty, guaranteeing occupancy levels in the Group’s properties, thereby driving the yield and value of its investments.
TOTAL CONTROL Unlike a typical property investment company, which sources products to sell but remains detached from the development or management of the product, Select Property Group controls every aspect of the investment. From the initial identiication of the opportunity, all facets of the Group work to provide the customer with the property they desire. The perfect location is sourced, a building is designed and furnished to accommodate every aspect of the customer’s lifestyle, and a specialist management team is recruited in-house to deliver consistently high levels of service, as well as operating eiciencies. By controlling all aspects of the process Select Property Group is not only able to go to market with industryleading brands but, crucially, it has the ability to evolve these brands with relative ease to encompass changing requirements and market dynamics. All of which enables the Group to maintain a competitive advantage in each of its vertical markets.
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Select Property Group Board
Select Property Group is a global developer, retailer and operator of market-leading property investment brands.
MARK STOTT
TREVOR MOORE
MARK OAKES
MICHAEL SLATER
MARK DAWSON
KEN KNOTT
ANGUS MONRO
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
CHIEF COMMERCIAL OFFICER
CHIEF FINANCE OFFICER
DIRECTOR & COMPANY SECRETARY
CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER
CHAIRMAN
Mark started Select Property Group in 2004. As CEO and founder of the Group his clear vision to create the world’s irst customeraligned property investment platform has successfully positioned the Group as a leader in the market. Mark’s pioneering approach has seen the business continually pursue new opportunities and revolutionise existing investment markets.
As COO, Trevor ensures each Group brand delivers market-leading quality and service. He has guided many consumer-facing brands through periods of signiicant expansion, including Whitbread, Cofee Republic and Phones4U. Trevor was appointed as CEO of Jessops PLC and restructured the inances and operations to restore the business to proit over a three-year period. In 2013 he became CEO of HMV, working with a syndicate of eight banks and performing a strategic review that determined the future of the business.
Mark’s role as CCO sees him drive operational eiciencies across the Group. He is responsible for all budgetary sign-ofs, as well as managing the development teams across every project, ensuring the Group delivers developments on schedule and to cost.
Michael has overall responsibility for the inance and accounting matters of Select Property Group, providing the company with the dynamic framework it needs to swiftly complete strategic acquisitions and expand into new markets.
Mark is responsible for negotiating and structuring the Group’s inancial transactions, joint ventures and leading the Group’s institutional relationships.
Ken is responsible for securing all land holdings for the Group in Europe and North America. His expertise of the planning landscape has enabled sites to be secured in the most desirable city centre locations, often overcoming challenging planning issues.
With a career spanning over 40 years in corporate, commercial and retail positions, Angus Monro, the former Chief Executive of Instore and Matalan, has a wealth of strategic experience to support Select Property Group’s plans for signiicant growth.
Prior to joining Select Property Group Mark spent three years in a board position as Head of IT for William Hill Group PLC, the UK’s leading gambling and gaming company. He has also been instrumental in both operational and IT leadership positions at companies including BSkyB, Barclays and Phones4U.
As a chartered accountant his previous positions included a role as Group Finance Director at AIMlisted Tepnel Life Sciences, which culminated in a successful trade sale exit following a period of high organic and acquisitive growth. Prior to this Michael was a Senior Manager with KPMG, responsible for assurance, advisory and transaction services projects for a wide range of listed and private companies.
Before taking up his role with Select Property Group Mark was a partner at two national law irms where he specialised in complex and high value mergers and acquisitions, private equity matters and property joint ventures, for a range of entrepreneurial and institutional clients and banks both in the UK and overseas.
His commitment to the customer is mirrored by that of his passion and loyalty to his team, and under his strong leadership Select Property Group is considered a pre-eminent property investment company and recognised by the Sunday Times as one of the best companies to work for.
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He is an experienced board director having spent 20 years in a combination of privately-owned, private equity-owned and PLC businesses.
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A qualiied lawyer, Mark also oversees the Group’s legal and regulatory activity.
Given his legal training Mark also fulils the role of Group company secretary.
Ken joined Select Property Group from Ask Property Developments, where he was CEO and founder shareholder. In the 13 years under his leadership Ask delivered in excess of 2 million sqft of predominantly commercial loor space, including the £90 million First Street North project and the Central Park business complex. Prior to Ask, Ken was a Director of AMEC Developments where he led a team responsible for securing major strategic projects throughout the North, Midlands and Scotland.
Angus is a well-known igure in the retail sector, having worked with some of the UK’s major retail corporations including Marks & Spencer, Dorothy Perkins, B&Q and Woolworths. He is widely regarded as one of the UK’s most experienced retailers and has been involved with Select Property Group since 2010. As well as his role as Chairman of Select Property Group, he is a Non-Executive Director of online retailer The Hut Group.
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