Digby Flower and Andrew Parker join Cushman & Wakefield
Cushman & Wakefield has today announced the appointments of Digby Flower and Andrew Parker from CBRE.
Digby Flower, who joins C&W as a partner and head of London markets, has been at CBRE for the past 17 years and was on CBRE’s Central London board. Andrew Parker, who becomes a partner at C&W and head of its City of London agency, was at CBRE for 23 years.
C&W’s London markets operations comprise the agency, investment and development functions. C&W said the appointments were part of an “ongoing strategic recruitment initiative” and would help it to become the leading real estate adviser in London. Paul Bacon, CEO of C&W EMEA, said the firm had been growing its London presence in recent years “to be on a par with our leading position in New York and other major cities”.
Property Week last week reported that C&W had been asked to re-pitch for the prestigious leasing mandate at Heron Tower, whereas CBRE had not been asked to re-pitch and had retained its mandate. There was speculation that other firms might try to pitch against C&W for what is currently the single largest active office leasing mandate in the City.
Meanwhile, Colin Wilson has been appointed as head of DTZ UK & Ireland, reporting to John Forrester. He has run the Central London team at DTZ for the past four years and was previously national investment agency coordinator.
Message for Digby Flower.
Digby, Congatulations on your appointment. You may remembwer me. I worked with Adrian HArvey at Centrica and would welcome a chat about what we are doing at present. My number is 07415110911
Best regards
Stephen Hobbs-Jones