Property experts to help you achieve your goals.

Arize Ngwuocha

Associate Director

Ben Haugh

Senior Associate Director

Ben has responsibility for providing valuation coverage across a large part of the South East, namely Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex and Surrey, as well as across the south east of Greater London.

Whilst Ben has a wealth of cross-sector experience in valuing most property or land types across the counties, his focus in recent years has been the South East where he has developed an extensive network of contacts and a good understanding of sub-market conditions and their various drivers.

Ben began his career at Savills in Sevenoaks dealing with a variety of valuation, development and commercial agency instructions in London and the South East. After qualifying as a Chartered Surveyor in 2012, he moved to the London office of Savills undertaking portfolio valuations for institutional funds including Aberdeen, Avignon Capital, Aviva, Hermes, Legal & General, M&G (Prudential Group), SEGRO, and Threadneedle.

During his tenure in London, he worked for Avignon Capital as an Asset Manager, where he was responsible for a national mixed-use portfolio of properties and was tasked with increasing the income performance of the portfolio. Following further roles as a Valuation Surveyor and Associate Director in the Investment Valuation team at CBRE in London, working again for institutional funds such as Aviva, Blackrock, Henderson, JLL, LaSalle and Orchard Street, he has been working in a regional or provincial context, covering parts of the South East since 2018.

With over 13 years’ surveying experience and 10 years’ post qualified experience, Ben has unrivalled knowledge of valuation best practice, methodologies and approaches across the UK, as well as a thorough understanding of professional RICS valuation standards and risk management.

Qualifications: BA (Hons) MSc MRICS

Bob Wiseman

Associate Director

Bob is responsible for carrying out valuation and surveying work on residential property, including investment and development property, owner occupied property, ranging from country Listed properties to new build high end London apartments. Valuation work is primarily undertaken for secured lending purposes and survey work is primarily undertaken for acquisition purposes.

Bob has been a Chartered Surveyor since 1997 and joined Aitchison Raffety in 1999.

Qualifications: BSc (Hons), MRICS, RICS Registered Valuer

Claire Ruddle

Valuation Surveyor

David West

Area Director - Manchester

David is the Area Director for Manchester and northwest at Aitchison Raffety. David has been a qualified Chartered Surveyor for over 22 years and has extensive experience with a range of commercial practices in the northwest, Yorkshire and the Midlands.

David advises on a broad spectrum of commercial, residential and development assets throughout the north of England.

Valuations are predominantly for secured lending purposes, although also for solicitors, financial organisations and private clients.

David joined Aitchison Raffety from Manchester based firm, WT Gunson Chartered Surveyors, where he headed up their Valuation department for 5 years.

Qualifications: BSc (Hons) MRICS, RICS Registered Valuer

Gavin Keats

Associate Director

Gavin joined Aitchison Raffety’s Valuation team in October 2021. He is experienced in a broad spectrum of commercial, residential and development assets throughout London, the South East and East Anglia areas.

With over 18 years’ post-qualification experience, Gavin has undertaken and overseen valuation advice for loan security, accounting, acquisition, asset management and disposal purposes. He has a proven track record in growing and sustaining relationships with private and public sector clients including developers, local authorities and all the national banks.

Harry Torrance

Area Director - London & South

Harry is the Area Director ‑ London & South at Aitchison Raffety, where he provides valuation, dispute resolution and lease advisory advice in England and Wales. His clients include lenders, accountants, private clients, charities, and limited companies including pension funds and SIPPS. He values property for a range of purposes including secured lending, financial reporting, compliance with the Charities Acts and tax reporting purposes, as well as for dispute resolution purposes. He focusses on residential development sites, country houses, premium houses, equestrian, rural enterprise premises including holiday lets and owner-occupied or investment commercial premises.

Building on his lengthy experience of dispute resolution and dispute avoidance practice, Harry qualified as an RICS Accredited Mediator and RICS Evaluative Mediator in spring 2022. Typically, 80% of disputes at mediation are resolved at far less cost and far sooner than other formal routes. On “without prejudice” terms, entirely confidential and non-binding until completion, mediation offers people their own way to resolve disputes and preserve important relationships. Harry mediates or represents clients at mediation.

Harry supports the expansion of Aitchison Raffety’s wider offerings of Lease Advisory, Building Surveying, Compulsory Purchase and Portfolio Management.

Qualifications: MRICS MCIArb, RICS Registered Valuer, RICS Accredited Mediator

   

Ian Mollon

Associate Director

Ian Wimpenny

Director, Head of Valuation

As Director and Head of Valuation at Aitchison Raffety, Ian has overall responsibility for the business’ valuation service line, comprising close to 30 individuals, across its’ extensive office network. He is based out of the London office, but oversees and manages the company’s valuation coverage nationally. His role at Aitchison Raffety further encompasses strategic business planning, business development, risk management and quality control.

Ian is a Chartered Surveyor and Registered Valuer having in excess of 20 years’ experience in the real estate valuation industry and, for the last 15 years, has developed a specialism in the execution, review and management of valuations in the UK and EMEA region.

Irfan Arif

Senior Surveyor

Irfan is a Senior Surveyor working out of our Manchester office covering the North West region and brings a broad range of experience spanning both Public & Private sectors. Irfan qualified as a Chartered Surveyor and Registered Valuer in 2014 and worked for a Manchester based commercial firm before joining a national panel firm undertaking residential valuations and home buyer surveys.

 

Irfan advises on a wide spectrum of commercial and residential assets including HMO’s and investments throughout the region. Whilst valuations are undertaken primarily for secured lending purposes Irfan also advises private clients.

 

Qualifications: MSc (Hons) MRICS, Registered Valuer.

Jamie Simpson

Associate Director

Jamie joined Aitchison Raffety’s Valuation team in May 2021. He has over 15 years’  valuation experience having developed specialisms in the areas of secured lending and CPO valuation.

Based at our Birmingham office, Jamie will cover the Midlands region.

Jamie’s experience includes valuing residential, commercial and development property whether the property is vacant, owner occupier or held as an investment. The valuations have been for a range of purposes, including, loan security on behalf of high street banks, inclusion in financial statements and accounts on behalf of investment funds, corporate recovery on behalf of insolvency practitioners.

Jamie re-joins Aitchison Raffety after a three and a half year period with Carter Jonas.

Jason Rawlings

Associate Director

As an Associate Director of Aitchison Raffety, Jason prepares surveys and other reports on residential property including party wall awards and carries out appraisal work for solicitors, banks and financial organisations including central London, valuing property up to £40million.

Jason has been in practice since 1988 and originally trained with a West End architectural practice (ATP Group), subsequently continuing his training as a Surveyor with northwest London firm Higgins & Co reaching Director status. He developed skills in organising and overseeing refurbishment and new build schemes for a number of Housing Associations. Jason joined Aitchison Raffety in 1999 based at the company’s Hertfordshire office and primarily worked in the residential sector undertaking valuations, surveys and construction monitoring. His valuation experience extends from Watford and surrounding Home Counties, into north, northwest, west and central London.

Qualifications: BSc MRICS

Kim Lee

Senior Surveyor

Laura Macqueen

Associate Director

Liv Keeler

Surveyor

Louise Leadbeater

Technical Director

Louise is our Technical Director working with our Valuation Team to ensure the highest of professional standards.  Her role includes peer review of valuation reports, training in all specialist software, and supporting the Team on valuation matters.

Louise is a Chartered Surveyor and Registered Valuer with over 40 years of experience, with a background in consultancy and client-side.  The last 25 years, Louise has worked in valuations, for secured lending, and for financial reporting.   She has been with Aitchison Raffety since 2016.

Martin Powell

Operations Director, Valuation

As Operation Director in Valuation, Martin oversees all operational aspects of the Valuation Division Strategy, ensuring the Division is constantly moving towards fulfilling its short-term and long-term objectives and does not diverge from its strategic guidelines.

Martin oversees the Divisions Operations performance, investments and other business ventures with innovation to support business growth with constant change.

Martin has over 20 years’ experience in Senior leadership roles becoming the youngest Bank Manager at Lloyds where he spent eight years prior to joining Aitchison Raffety as a Director in 2019 as Valuation Business Director.

 

Max Buckland

Graduate Surveyor

Nick Mann

Senior Surveyor

Nicole Tucker

Surveyor

Nicole joined Aitchison Raffety in 2002 and is a surveyor within the valuation team, responsible for undertaking valuations on commercial properties and specialising in GP surgeries.

Recognised for her knowledge of healthcare property and extensive experience in the industry, Nicole undertakes a range of valuations for a variety of purposes including secured lending, partnership, portfolio and court purposes for a range of clients from individual property owners and investors, to large portfolio holders.

Specialist Area: GP survey valuations

Qualifications: BSc (Hons) MRICS RICS Registered Valuer

 

Ophelia Avent

Senior Surveyor

Paula Mace

Director, Head of Healthcare

Paula is a Director and Head of Healthcare at Aitchison Raffety, one of the Country’s leading experts on surgery premises and primary care medical centres.

Paula joined the company in 2003 and has nearly 20 years’ experience in the healthcare industry having worked with many surgeries, medical centres, healthcare investors and funds across the country during this time. Aitchison Raffety have a number of offices with a team of healthcare specialists located across the country with over forty years’ experience working with doctor’s surgeries.

Recognised for her knowledge of healthcare property and extensive experience in the healthcare industry and provides a range of services, specialising in valuations for a variety of purposes including secured lending, partnership, portfolio and court purposes for a range of clients from individual property owners and investors, to large portfolio holders with a considerable number of medical centres located nationwide. These services also include sale and leaseback, disposal and acquisition and development work.

Paula is also involved in a variety of Landlord and Tenant situations on a daily basis dealing with rent reviews and lease renewal negotiations, dispute resolution, CMR appeals, as well as pharmacy rent reviews and lease renewals. She also has significant experience as an Expert Witness in relation to rent review and lease renewal disputes including the PACT process.

As well as being a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Paula is instrumental in the management and running of the Healthcare Department. She also qualified as an Independent Expert in 2017 and is now a member of the RICS panel of Independent Experts.

Qualifications:  MRICS

 

Russell Lane

Specialist Property Consultant

Selorm Klu-Holloway

Senior Surveyor

Sian Edwards

Associate Director

Simon Stanley

Senior Associate Director

Stephen Ore

Senior Associate Director

As a Senior Associate Director of Aitchison Raffety, Stephen prepares valuation reports on a range of commercial properties including retail, office and industrial, predominantly for secured lending purposes, although also for solicitors and financial organisations.  Stephen predominantly covers the M25, M40 and M4 corridor ranging from substantial bespoke warehouse units to the corner shop.

Stephen has been in practice for over 40 years’ operating in the South Herts, Buckinghamshire and Middlesex areas.  Originally trained in building surveying, Stephen has an extensive skill set.  He had developed good connections with a range of bank customers and property investors, completing valuations on Listed buildings through to brand new residential and commercial schemes.

Stephen joined Aitchison Raffety in 2007, originally working out of the High Wycombe office, although more recently based in South Hertfordshire.  The primary workload includes preparing valuations on commercial buildings and both residential and commercial development schemes, together with specialist dentist practice goodwill appraisals.

Tom Beckett

Surveyor

Tom Littler

Associate Director

Tom is part of the Valuation team at Aitchison Raffety and is responsible for undertaking a wide range of valuations for both secured lending and accounts purposes. He provides ‘Red Book’ valuations to an extensive range of lenders covering all principal commercial property types and the appraisal of sites being redeveloped for both commercial and residential purposes. He has extensive experience of bespoke valuation packages and assists in providing training to graduates enrolled in the Assessment of Professional Competence.

Tom has been a qualified Chartered Surveyor for 25 years and has extensive experience with a range of commercial practices. He has worked both in the Home Counties and for over 10 years in central London. He has concentrated on valuation work for most of his career with Countrywide Commercial, DTZ (now Cushman & Wakefield) and for the past five years Aitchison Raffety. At DTZ, Tom worked closely with major pension funds including Legal & General and Aviva as well as undertaking high value and complex valuation appraisals for many of the major UK banks. Since joining Aitchison Raffety, he has focused on secured lending work and undertakes valuations of properties for a range of the major banks and private clients, with a value between £500,000 and £30 million.

Specialist Areas:

• ‘Red Book’ commercial valuations of both vacant and investment property.
• ‘Red Book’ valuations of commercial and residential development sites.
• Accounts valuations for public bodies and pension trustees.

Qualifications: BSc (Hons) MRICS