A London-headquartered property advisory firm, founded in 1930, that gives advice on valuation, planning, development and property taxes from offices across the UK.
Gerald Eve is a firm of chartered surveyors and property advisers. According to Wikipedia, its work falls into three broad areas: property valuation and other property services, town planning and development, and property taxes such as business rates. Surveyors are professionals qualified, often through the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), to judge what buildings and land are worth and how they can be used. Clients include owners, investors and occupiers who need independent, expert advice.
The firm was founded in 1930 as Gerald Eve and Co. on Chancery Lane in London by Charles Gerald Eve, who started it at the age of 57 after a long career. He later became President of RICS. It became a limited liability partnership on 1 October 2008. In March 2023 it was acquired by Newmark Group, which had bought other UK businesses in 2022, but it continues to trade as Gerald Eve. Wikipedia says Newmark's 2022 purchases included BH2, Harper Dennis Hobbs and Deskeo, so Gerald Eve now sits in a wider group of property businesses. Its founder was elected to lead the surveyors' profession, which shows how closely the firm has been tied to the professional standards of the industry from the start.
The pages we found give no mission statement in the firm's own words, so we have not invented one. Wikipedia says the firm is ranked among the top 20 UK chartered surveying and property consultancy firms, and that it appeared in The Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For list six years in a row, placing 51st in 2012. Those are dated claims about a past period.
Gerald Eve's headquarters is at One Fitzroy, 6 Mortimer Street, London. Besides its West End and City of London presence, Wikipedia lists offices in Glasgow, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Cardiff and West Malling. That gives it a presence in Scotland, Wales and several English regions. The same page gave more than 580 employees as at 2022, so the firm is substantial but far smaller than the global agency brands.
A firm like this needs valuers who analyse rents and prices, planners who work with councils and developers on what can be built, surveyors, rating specialists who deal with business rates, researchers and analysts, and administrators and finance staff. Maths, geography, economics, business studies and politics all link well to this work. Gerald Eve's website lists current roles. Working in several regional offices also means people can build a career in cities such as Glasgow, Manchester, Leeds or Cardiff without having to be based in London.
Website: www.geraldeve.com
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