Black Brick appoints Hamish Bruce to lead its managed sales division 

Black Brick has appointed Hamish Bruce to lead its managed sales division.

The buying agency, says that the appointment comes as a result of significant increased demand from its client base to complement the firm’s successful award-winning property buying expertise.

Bruce has worked for the past seven years as a negotiator and sales manager for Marsh and Parsons

As a Negotiator he has sold more than £100m worth of property. Before working in property Hamish lived in South Africa and set up a Chinese food delivery business as well as a charity events company, specialising in White Collar Boxing.

Black Brick’s managing partner, Camilla Dell commented: “He [Bruce] brings a wealth of experience having been one of Marsh and Parsons top performers in challenging markets.

“Hamish will lead our managed sales service, a growing and exciting part of our business where we have already received close to £100m of new sales enquiries since the start of 2021.

“There is clearly a huge appetite from sellers for a more boutique, personal approach when it comes to selling, and we look forward to delivering some outstanding results for our clients this year.”

Cluttons promoted Matthew Peake to head of commercial and strategic asset management

Cluttons has promoted Matthew Peake to head of commercial and strategic asset management to support the delivery of its newly joined-up multi-disciplinary service offering to clients.

Prior to joining Cluttons in 2017 as a partner in its investment management division, Cluttons IM, Peake was director of fund management at M&G Real Estate.

He has more than 23 years’ experience of providing strategic investment and asset management advice to investor clients on their commercial property portfolios.

Peake said: “We have enhanced our commercial management service offer by amalgamating property & facilities management with investment management [Cluttons IM] to create a newly formed commercial and strategic asset management team – a fully integrated, ‘top to bottom’ management service offer that can provide clients with innovative, strategic advice to maximising investment returns alongside our existing property management services.”

John Gravett, head of real estate management at Cluttons, added: “We believe that this newly expanded service offering adds strength and depth to our existing services as well as a more joined up approach to managing an investment property portfolio, better serving our clients as a result.

“This is particularly important at a time when the real estate industry is experiencing significant disruption across all property sectors and clients require robust and innovative approaches to creating value.”

Enness welcomes new chairman

Enness, has appointed Nigel Le Quesne as non-executive chairman. He will, in addition, acquire an equity stake in the business.

The mortgage broker, founded by Islay Robinson and Hugh Wade-Jones in 2007, now has 35 members of staff operating across six offices in London, Monaco, Jersey, Dubai, Ibiza and Geneva.

The business’s day-to-day running remains with CEO Robinson in London and managing director Wade-Jones in Monaco, with Le Quesne providing guidance and support to their international growth plans.

Le Quesne is the chief executive officer of JTC PLC. Under his strategic leadership, JTC listed on the London Stock Exchange in March 2018 and is now a FTSE250 company. He has experience as a chairman and director in public and private markets and across several business sectors over his career.

Le Quesne commented: “I am delighted to be joining Islay and Hugh as non-executive chairman of Enness to assist them in their exciting and ambitious plans for its future development. My wide experience and history of managing a multi-jurisdictional growth business over the years will, I hope, prove invaluable in this regard.”

Robinson said: “This is an important landmark for Enness and the absolute correct decision for both the company and our team. With Nigel’s guidance and support, we will now set upon an ambitious phase of growth, further cementing Enness as the leading mortgage broker for UHNW individuals on the international stage.”

Wade-Jones added: “We have ambitions to create a truly global brand in the HNW space. Nigel has obviously had phenomenal success with JTC, who have offices in every corner of the globe, and we have no doubt he will be able to help us emulate the same at Enness.”