Savills hires Deloitte City team

Savills has today announced the acquisition of the City Investment team at Deloitte Real Estate headed by Jamie Olley.
 
The team of four, Jamie Olley, Thomas Reeves, Jamie Binstock and David McArthur, provides investment advisory services and focuses solely on the City of London.  They will relocate to Savills City Office in mid June and work alongside Savills existing City Investment team, as part of the firm’s wider Central London investment team  led by Stephen Down comprising over 30 experienced investment agents. 
 
Jamie Olley has over 18 years experience in real estate investment.  Together with his team he worked with Savills in November 2014 on the sale of the Gherkin for over £700M to Safra and has been involved in many other high profile deals including advising Guy’s & St Thomas’ Charity on their acquisition of Becket House, Waterloo for £112m and Nomura on their disposal of 1 St Martins Le Grand for £171m.   Clients include both international and domestic investors such as TIAA Henderson, Land Securities, Bloomberg, Tishman Speyer and LaSalle. 
 
Stephen Down, head of Savills Central London Investment, says “This focussed team of well regarded London investment specialists, led by Jamie Olley, will be a superb addition to Savills where we continue to add to the business to fulfil our ambition to be the leading Central London Investment consultancy.”
 
Jamie Olley comments: “We look forward to joining the London Investment team at Savills which we consider to be the “premier” investment agency in Central London given the success they have had across London and on some very significant high profile transactions over the last few years.”
 
Savills has recently advised on the sale of a 36.5% stake in Kings Cross, High Holborn Estate on behalf of Blackstone for £136M and the sale of Sheldon Square on behalf of EPF for £210M.