Surveyor - Senior Surveyor - Residential Valuation Advisory - New Settlements

Montagu Evans is a UK property consultancy that helps clients unlock value from complexity, because that’s where the most meaningful opportunities live.

Our purpose is to bring clarity, creativity, and conviction to the complex. We are experts who collaborate to create value, not just preserve it and our team is built for impact, not oversight.

We specialise in high-value, complex assets across the property lifecycle, where political, technical or commercial challenges demand a joined-up approach.

THE TEAM/DEPARTMENT

This role is to sit within our Advisory Department led by Josh Myerson and comprises 5 Teams:

• Valuation, Asset and Investment Advisory

Advisory comprises of over 130 experts across all 3 of our national offices.

Advisory benefits from a huge critical mass of expertise and a diversity of experience. Projects can range from:

• placemaking the evolution of our town centres where we advise owners on asset management and repurposing;
• strategic development advice to the public and private sector on delivering their medium to long term objectives;
• minimising the costs of re-development for some of London’s largest developers through rating strategy;
• supporting residential developers value land be that for viability, acquisition or the formation of a new garden town;
• helping the owners and occupiers of major portfolios secure the correct model both operational and financially through strategic thinking and problem solving;
• innovating through valuations of some of the most interesting public and private property portfolios spread across the firms’ key sectors of Town Centres, Healthcare, Housing and London.

Advisory is…

• Extracting and unlocking value
• Interpreting policy to maximise benefits for our clients
• Applying innovative ideas to challenge the status quo
• Counselling clients to achieve their goals and objectives
• Supporting clients critical thinking to improve the performance of their assets
• Simplifying complex problems and creating solutions

Residential Valuation Advisory (RVA) is the firm’s centre of excellence for residential-led valuation, and comprises three complementary workstreams - Valuation, Viability and New Settlements. Currently comprising 17 people, the team is looking to grow.

RVA is closely aligned with the firm’s planning and development focus and offers considerable growth potential. Residential is the largest, most dynamic sector in UK real estate and the New Settlements team focuses on advising on housing and land matters which are key to the wider residential sector. Our team is involved in the delivery of some of the largest residential led schemes in the UK. The market is constantly evolving, and our clients need expert advisors to help them navigate the challenges and opportunities the sector brings.

RVA provides a range of consulting and technical disciplines, advising private and public sector landowners, as well as registered providers, developers, housebuilders and funders on various development and investment matters.

ROLE OVERVIEW

We are seeking an exceptional and enthusiastic Surveyor/Senior Surveyor, with 1-3 years post qualification experience, to join the New Settlements workstream of RVA, based in our London office.

The New Settlements team has a blend of public sector (Homes England, DIO, Local Authorities) and private sector clients (Places for People, Hill, Taylor Wimpey, Private landowners - including charities, Land Promoters). The team supports clients in providing consultancy from a development and valuation perspective, providing advice on wide ranging matters such as land assembly for large housing projects, land disputes, land promotion and landowner agreements whilst working closely with Montagu Evans planning team and Legal Advisors on Expert Witness instructions. The team is also looking to grow its presence in the land disposal market working alongside colleagues within Development and Strategic Advisory on greenfield land opportunities, linked to the Firm’s wider strategic land advisory offer, that the New Settlements team leads on.

Skills include:

Examples of projects that the team has been involved in includes:

• Homes England: Advising on major residential-led sites including Cambridge East, Brookleigh, West of Ifield, Hartley Gardens and Chalgrove, ranging from 1,800-10,000 homes, with advice covering valuation, development consultancy, land assembly, masterplanning and disposal. Also providing disposal advice on serviced land at The Steadings, Cirencester for c.270 homes and disposal strategy on sites across the South East.
• Public sector and local authority work: Providing valuation, development consultancy, disposal and delivery advice for clients including DIO, Guildford Borough Council, Oxford City Council, Lee Valley Regional Park Authority and LB of Enfield.
• Strategic land and promotion agreements: Advising landowners, schools and promoters on major residential opportunities, including sites in Ashford, Warlingham, Wokingham, Hertfordshire, North St Albans, Newbury and schemes ranging from 50 to 5,000 units.
• Major development and land assembly projects: Supporting complex mixed-use and residential schemes including Temple Works Leeds, Gilston Park Harlow and a potential landmark development near Waterloo Station, with advice spanning CPO, overage, land assembly, viability and delivery strategy.

The role involves:

• Joining a young, ambitious team which focuses on providing high quality residential-led consultancy advice
• Being challenged through a wide variety of interesting and complex work, finding solutions to clients’ problems
• Gaining experience working with a huge range of clients, including leading property companies, public sector bodies, developers and landowners
• Preparation and analysis of data in order to support a range of consultancy, valuation and agency advice
• Preparing appraisals and valuations
• Preparing high quality written advice for clients including some provision of Red Book valuation reports
• Liaising with clients and wider project teams to discuss advice
• Attend and lead client meetings and presentations
• Providing support and training to graduates within the team
• Collaborating with a range of teams across the firm and taking an active role in firm-wide subject matter expertise areas
• Raising your own and the team’s profile internally and externally with peers
• Working with colleagues on business development activities including input into tender opportunities
• Any additional duties as reasonably requested

Qualifications

• RICS qualified and an RICS Registered Valuer (1-3 years Post Qualified Experience)
• Knowledge of the planning system
• Good knowledge of Argus Developer, with a willingness to become expert
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft packages
• Enthusiastic, self-motivated and proactive
• Personable and capable of working positively within a team
• Strong attention to detail and high service delivery skills
• Good organisational skills and ability to work on multiple projects at any one time.
• Able to listen, assimilate and act expeditiously