Naomi Heaton has taken a step back from private client work in order to focus on a ‘lifestyle hotel’ project with Dutch pensions group APG. At London Central Portfolio she is ably deputised by Miles Atkinson, who joined in 2018 and describes himself as a ‘poacher turned gamekeeper’ due to his experience in sales. ‘It’s nice to be on the other side of the fence for a change,’ says Atkinson.
‘It helps to have had that background to work for the buyer instead.’ He is cautiously optimistic about the market: ‘At the very high end we’ve seen some movement already, and it only takes a few extra transactions and a few extra buyers to create a market.’