Case Studies

Client: Capital & Provident

Role: Site Sale

Acted as selling agents on this large site to a JV of Ballymore, City & Docklands and Galliard Homes.

Cherryman later acted for the JV to acquire further adjacent Millharbour site on the dockside.

Client: Canary Wharf PLC, Ballymore Properties, Canal River Trust

Role: Site Acquisition

Acquisition of a key 4.5 acre site within the Wood Wharf development on behalf of the Joint Venture partners. Now solely owned by Canary Wharf Group and currently undergoing redevelopment.

Client: Lyca Group, Matrix, Schroders, Independent Newspaper

Role: Site Sale, Investment Acquisition, Development, Leasing

Originally acted in acquiring all interests within the estate of buildings to create a significant investment (270,000 sq.ft. on 3 acres) with redevelopment potential.

Later provided advice on the acquisition on behalf of the current owners Lyca Group and retained as overall advisers including leasing and potential redevelopment/investment strategy.

Client: Castlelands, Hallmark, NAMA

Role: Site Sale

Instructed as selling agent for a site with planning for 170 residential apartments and 250 bedroom hotel.

Client: Carnegie, Angel Group

Role: Investment Acquisition, Development, Leasing

Sold 40,000 sq.ft net office building to Angel Group. Later retained as leasing agents and development consultants. Now transferred to new owners for potential redevelopment.

Client: JADD, Solray

Role: Site Sale, Development

Acted on behalf of two adjacent site owners for the off-market sale of a key development site to FEC now known as Alpha Square.

Client: Canal & River Trust

Role: Advisory

Cherryman provide Canal & River Trust (CRT) various advisory roles on overall dock strategy for the Docklands area and property title issues.

Most recently we have negotiated various title related issues connected with CRT’s ownership’s around Greenland Properties proposed development at West India Quay now known as The Spire.

Client: Ballymore Properties

Role: Acquisition, Leasing, Rent Review

Acquired this 1.6 acre site for Ballymore. This has now been redeveloped as a 150 meter residential tower where we are retained as commercial leasing and investment agents together with rent review consultants.

Client: Ballymore Properties

Role: Site Acquisition, Leasing

8.5 acre riverside site acquired on behalf of Ballymore. Advised on redevelopment content and later retained as leasing agents on the commercial elements.

Client: Ballymore Properties

Role: Site Acquisition, Development, Leasing

Acquisition of 1.3 acre site on behalf of Ballymore Properties that later received planning for Arrowhead, a 526,000 sq.ft office scheme adjacent to Canary Wharf that we were retained as pre-leasing agents. Planning now revised for residential scheme.

Client: Stolkin Clements LLP

Role: Site Sale

Acted as leasing agents of a former multi-tenanted industrial estate whilst working as development consultants to formalise viable planning options. Later disposed of a 600 residential apartment consented site after executing a vacant possession strategy to City & Docklands.

Client: Ballymore Properties

Role: Site Acquisition, Leasing, Investment Sale

Advised Ballymore Properties on the acquisition of the 5 acre former London Arena. Retained as commercial leasing agents and commercial investment disposal

Client; Markland

Role: Investment Acquisition, Rent Review Leasing

Acquisition of 58,000 sq.ft office investment. Later acted on a rent review and more recently re-letting the building.

Client: Ballymore Properties

Role: Site Acquisition

60 acre site assembly acquisition of this Thames side regeneration site in the Royal Docks on behalf of Ballymore. Now known as Royal Wharf.

Client: Tameric Investments

Role: Investment Acquisition, Development, Leasing, Asset Management, Rent Review, Investment Sale.

Acted as development consultants in the original 3.5 acre office scheme in the 1980’s and later site assembly for potential redevelopment together with asset management and leasing role. Most recently acted on pre-letting 100,000 sq. ft data-centre to Telecity with the balance of site now disposed for redevelopment and re-modelling.

Client: Carnegie

Role: Site Sale, Development

Acted as development consultants achieving and planning for a 400,00 sq. ft office building. We later acted to sell the site to Ballymore for a revised residential use.

Client: LPA Receivers

Role: Site Sale

Selling agents for part of this regeneration site on Deptford Creek.

Client: Matrix Securities, Tiger Developments

Role: Investment Sale, Leasing

Originally acted on behalf of Matrix Securities in the disposal of the 60,000 sq. ft office and retail investment to Tiger Developments. Currently acting as leasing agents for retail and offices on behalf of Columbia Threadneedle.

Client: National Audit Office, Lend Lease, Quintain

Role: Advisory, Leasing

Acted as adviser to the Government audit office to oversee the disposal of Greenwich Peninsula.

Later acted as commercial leasing agents by Quintain and Lend Lease.

Client: Hammerson PLC, MGPA, Gaw Capital

Role: Leasing, Investment Acquisition, Asset Management, Development

Acquired the 500,000 sq. ft office investment for Hammerson in the 1990’s and retained as leasing agents and the provision of the strategic asset management and development advice. Later retained as leasing agents for the current owners at GAW Capital.

Client: Dollar Bay, Matrix Securities

Role: Leasing, Investment Sale, Development

Development consultant and letting agent resulting in agreeing a 75,000 sq. ft pre-let to Telecity and subsequently sold the completed development as an investment for £32 million.

Client: Capital and Provident

Role: Leasing, Site Sale, Development

Worked on development options for data-centre use in 2001 including agents seeking pre-lets. The client later pursued a residential-led scheme that did not receive planning consent following which we were tasked with the attempted sale of the site, however this was aborted and later sold to Galliard homes.

Client: East Thames Group

Role: Leasing, Investment Sale

Corporate advisers to this Housing Association in the leasing of surplus space in their new HQ and the investment sale of the neighbouring building used as a previous HQ.

Client: CIT, Kan Am Grund, Criterion Capital

Role: Investment Acquisition, Leasing

Acted for CIT on the acquisition of this 600,000 sq. ft office development in the Canary Wharf area. More recently retained as commercial leasing agents.

Client: Ballymore Properties

Role: Investment Acquisition, Leasing

Advised on the acquisition of West Tower, a 114,000 sq. ft building fitted to shell. Also acted as marketing agents concluding a letting of the entire data centre to specialists Telstra (Cordoba).

Client: IBM

Role: Leasehold Acquisition

Acquired 400,000 sq. ft building in Southwark for Sema Group (now IBM) to be reused as London’s premiere Data/WAR centre.

Client: Telegraph Media Group

Role: Leasing, Corporate Services, Lease Surrender

Disposal of 136,000 sq. ft HQ office premises on behalf of this major tenant. Eventually negotiated a complex surrender ot facilitate the re-letting.

Client: JADD

Role: Site Sale

Selling agent in 260,000 sq. ft office block with planning consent for conversion to residential apartments.

Client: Summer Properties

Role: Site sale

Selling agents for an 8,000 sq. ft office building and annexed car- park in old town Greenwich with Permitted Development Rights to convert to residential use.

Client: Threadneedle, Autumn Properties

Role: Leasing, Investment Acquisition, Development

A 15,000 sq. ft mix-use building, located in Wapping. Cherryman originally acted as leasing agents for Threadneedle responsible for leasing vacant space and re-gearing and pre-letting all the office accommodation to a single tenant. Later acquired the investment on behalf of the current owners and retained as leasing agents and provide potential development consultancy advice.

Client: Ballymore Properties

Role: Leasing, Investment Sale

Sale of a 2.5 acre potential development site comprised of a mixed portfolio of buildings and part income producing.

Client: Ogden Estates, TH Real Estate

Role: Leasing, Sale

Leasing agents on behalf of Ogden Estates on a 110,000 sq. ft multi-let office building. Currently acting for TH Real Estate on part of a larger 150,000 sq.ft data-centre/ office re-development.

Client: Various

Role: Leasing, Sale

The Waterside estate comprises of 100 long-leasehold interests predominantly consisting of sub 2,000 sq. ft offices. We have acted on over 50 transactions on behalf of the various owners within the estate.

Client: GE, Northern & Shell PLc, Amazon Properties, Claranet

Role: Leasing, Sale, Development

This is a 3.5-acre estate comprising of 9 buildings totalling 200,000 sq. ft currently used for offices. the estate is in multiple ownership and subject to several occupational leases. Over the years we have acted on several sales and leasing transactions in the estate and also provided development consultancy advice to the freehold company.

Client: U+I

Role: Leasing

Leasing agents on behalf of U+I for 23 commercial units forming part of a larger residential-led mixed-use development in Canning Town.

Client: Galliard Homes

Role: Leasing

Leasing agents on several retail/restaurant/office units.

Client: Craft Central

Role: Leasing

Leasing agents on behalf of Craft Central which is a charity specialising in providing workshops for creatives and artists on a serviced arrangement with support services to exhibit and grow businesses.