All the latest moves, appointments and promotions from across the property sector.

  • Urban & Civic has hired Jon Di-Stefano, chief executive of Telford Homes, as a non-executive director and a member of its audit committee.
  • Chartered surveyor Patrick Lowther has been made associate director at property healthcare investor Assura. Lowther joins the Warrington-based investment trust after eight years at Savills Investment Management.
  • Architectural practice Farrells has recruited three new partners: design partner Effie Kuan and associate partners Chris Crombie and Michael Faulkner.
  • Ian Lambert has been promoted to partner to lead commercial property consultant Hartnell Taylor Cook’s Bristol office.
  • Barbara Somogyiova has been made European outlet operator NEINVER’s new leasing director for Europe.
  • Manchester-based architectural firm Fletcher-Rae has appointed six new members of staff: Anna Line (practice secretary), Bharat Tripathi (architecture assistant), Daniele Nardone (architect), Charlotte Fuller and Eu Weng Ang (architecture assistants) and Luka Paliulionyte (part 1 architect).
  • Business rates expert Ken McCormack has joined Montagu Evans’ Glasgow office as partner, leading the firm’s Scottish rating work. He joins the firm after 28 years with GVA James Barr.
  • Knight Frank has recruited Rob Tilley as a partner in its logistics and industrial agency team in Manchester. He has more than 15 years’ experience in the North West market.
  • Michael Coulthard has joined Newcastle-based Silverstone Building Consultancy as senior chartered building surveyor.
  • Christine Kessler-Robinson, Southampton-based development and social housing specialist for law firm Blake Morgan, has joined the board of the South West Women in Social Housing Group.
  • Commercial real estate investor, developer and asset manager FREO Group has appointed Rachel Hanke as director and Will Ferguson-Davie as associate in its London office.
  • Property consultancy Alder King has promoted RICS-registered valuer Will Grant, who is based in the firm’s Exeter office, to associate.
  • Building consultancy specialist J3 Partners has hired former Collins McKay director Theo Channer as a divisional director in its London office.
  • Three staff members at Building Services Design have been promoted in two of its offices. In Birmingham, Joel Sawyer is now director and Jo Jones associate director. Mark Dyer is the Cambridge office’s new director.
  • Julian Diamond has been promoted to retail director at investment and property management company LCP. Diamond has been with the company since 2004. .

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