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Deloitte Real Estate makes double Surveyor appointment

Deloitte Real Estate has announced the appointments of Josaphine Ford as Senior Surveyor and Heather Foxen as Development Surveyor to its Manchester office.

Jo joins Deloitte Real Estate from Cushman & Wakefield, where she worked for seven years, latterly as Senior Consultant, to provide strategic advice to universities, developers and investors on major student accommodation projects across the UK.

At Deloitte, Jo has joined the UK’s Valuation Assurance and Professional Advisory team, where she will provide advisory and assurance services on a wide range of real estate matters to clients on both a national and an international basis.

Heather has joined the Development team at Deloitte Real Estate advising on a range of public and private sector instructions across the UK and Ireland. She joins from Harworth Group plc where she worked as a Development Surveyor on key projects such as Waverley, Yorkshire’s largest ever brownfield redevelopment, and Logistics North, the 800-acre manufacturing and distribution park in Bolton.

Jo and Heather’s appointments follow a sharp rise in construction levels across the North West. Deloitte’s Manchester Crane Survey, released in January this year, showed real estate development reached its highest levels for almost a decade in 2016 as a strong pipeline of schemes, including four towers over 25 storeys high, began construction.

Simon Bedford, Partner at Deloitte Real Estate, said: “Jo and Heather’s appointments come at an exciting time for Deloitte Real Estate and the wider property development market. The region continues to demonstrate enormous potential for growth and, following a record year of construction which has laid the groundwork for a strong pipeline of development, this is set to continue into the years ahead.

“Jo and Heather will add tremendous value to our teams as we continue to work with major clients on landmark developments across the North West and beyond.”

Jo Ford, Senior Surveyor at Deloitte Real Estate, said: “Deloitte Real Estate provides an excellent platform to support Deloitte clients, not only in the North West but overseas as well. It is an exciting time to join the firm and contribute to the strategic direction of real estate on such a far reaching remit and as part of its talented team.”

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