LEVANTER DEVELOPMENTS - Key Persons
Chris has over 30 years experience in both residential and commercial property investment and development having started his career at Ideal Homes Woking office as a trainee land buyer and construction management trainee. He qualified as a Chartered Surveyor in Hillier Parker's UK investment... Read more >
Chris has over 30 years experience in both residential and commercial property investment and development having started his career at Ideal Homes Woking office training in land acquisition and construction management.
He qualified as a Chartered Surveyor in Hillier Parker's UK investment agency team, spending 6 years dealing with the acquisition and disposal of property investments for a range of institutional and private clients. Chris was head hunted to join the Berkeley Group in 1993 in order to spearhead the assembly of an offshore investment portfolio of UK prime assets which quickly achieved a NAV in excess of £250m. After over three years at the Berkeley Group he joined Savills Plc to head Grosvenor Hill Ventures, the firms proprietary trading division where over his 8 year tenure the average project IRR achieved was 37%. During his time at Savills Chris was also heavily involved in the implementation of a number of partnerships, joint ventures and other vehicle structures.
Chris is a founding partner of Levanter and over the last 14 years he has been instrumental in aggregating, structuring, funding and selling a German retail investment Portfolio of approximately Euro 120m, structured debt acquisition and advisory projects in the UK and Europe that have included Battersea Power Station and other Nama projects. More recently Chris has been focused on various land acquisitions for commercial and residential developments for Levanter where he has worked on high quality schemes jointly with Waitrose, Surrey Police, Surrey and Borders Health Partnership, Standard Life and McCarthy and Stone throughout Surrey.
When not at the office, the Rugby club or Stamford Bridge, Chris can be found playing golf at St Georges Hill, skiing, sailing, fishing, walking or at home with his wife Ginette and children Georgia, James and Oliver.
Jack joined the Levanter team in 2011. Jack is heavily involved in the day to day running of the business, as well as sourcing new opportunities and site procurement. Given Jack's locality and experiences, Jack focuses on opportunities within Guildford Borough and specifically Guildford town...
In the five years prior to joining Levanter, Jack founded ‘Properties 4 Students' which continues to own and manage a substantial portfolio of student houses in Guildford.
Keen to broaden his horizons in real estate, Jack joined Levanter in 2010.
As well as sourcing and analysing new opportunities, Jack leads on project strategy, structuring and funding.
Having become a partner in 2017, Jack is also jointly responsible for the day to day running of the company and overseeing all the projects.
Away from work, Jack enjoys a variety of endurance and adrenaline sports! In 2009 Jack became the second youngest Briton to reach the summit of Mt Everest.
Oli was a development agent with Savills, undertaking property acquisitions and disposals, and providing development consultancy advice across the South East. A University of Reading graduate, Oli qualified as a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered
Paul has almost 30 years of experience as a Chartered Surveyor. Twenty years in Mayfair with industry luminaries' such as CBRE (Hillier Parker) and Edgerley Simpson Howe are now fond memories and Paul's efforts are now focused on all aspects of commercial and residential development in Surrey... Read more >