PART GROUND and FIRST FLOOR & PART BASEMENT LEVEL TWO, VICTORIA HOUSE, BLOOMSBURY SQUARE, LONDON, WC1

Overlooking Bloomsbury Square, Victoria House is a neo classical designed building constructed in stages between 1921 and 1934, when it was completed.  The building comprises in excess of 215,000 sq ft of offices arranged on two basement levels and eight floors above the pavement with two additional central tower floors. The Building was listed (Grade II) in December 1990. Refurbished in 2003 it now provides Grade A office accommodation.

We are instructed by Michael Page International PLC, who occupy nearly 30,000 sq.ft on part ground and first floors, to advise on the rent review due September 2008. The matter is the subject of arbitration. We are providing expert witness evidence and market expert evidence as to rental value and coordinating the case management and other technical experts.

 

About Us

We deliver quick and relevant advice on:

	Rent Reviews
	Lease Renewals
	Lease restructuring
	Valuations (secured lending and other regulated purposes)
	Valuations for Dilapidations (S18)
	Dispute Resolution (Arbitration, Independent Expert Determinations, Expert Witness work and Court Appointed Expert)
	Rating

The service that we provide is tailored to each client’s specific needs and every instruction is either undertaken by or overseen by a Partner.

Niall Sheridan and Geoffrey Wright are both long established and highly experienced Arbitrators and Independent Experts who are regularly appointed by the President of the RICS to resolve a diverse range of rental and valuation disputes across the commercial property sector. Both are also qualified PACT Arbitrators and Experts. In addition Geoff receives appointments from the President of the Law Society and is a member of the President’s Quality Initiative team for the training and revalidation of the Independent Experts across the UK.

Geographical Work Profile

The dominant commercial property (office, retail and restaurant/bars) workload emerges from the established and specialist geographical markets of Midtown – (Covent Garden and Holborn), Soho, Clerkenwell and the Southbank (Southwark and Lambeth).

In Southwark we are also involved on warehousing and light industrial units.

We act for institutional and private clients on properties of all sizes.

Specialist Work

Outside our normal geographical boundaries we undertake specialist work in relation to rental and capital valuation of primary healthcare premises, leisure and A3 units ie restaurants, bars and pubs.


RICS Expert Witness & Advocacy Roadshow 2008

E A Shaw is pleased to announce that Geoff Wright will be a key speaker at a series of RICS Roadshows from April-June this year, with 11 events taking place across the UK regions.

Geoff Wright and Nicholas Cheffings (Lovells LLP) will be the lead presenters at each of the half day events. Geoff and Nicholas have been heavily instrumental in the process of producing the 2008 practice statements and guidance notes.

The roadshow is aimed at RICS members intending to practise, or already practising, as expert witnesses or surveyor-advocates.

For more information or to book for this event please click here to download the booking form.