Cushman & Wakefield

Cushman & Wakefield is a top 3 global multi-disciplinary property services business with over 50,000 colleagues across 60 countries. In the UK, we have 2,000 colleagues across multiple services from agency through to valuation, cost consultancy and consultancy.

Our UK Development & Strategic Advisory Team operates across the UK advising public and private sector clients on a wide range of property, regeneration and economic development related challenges. It comprises around 50 professional staff including Chartered Surveyors, Town Planners and Economic Development Specialists/Economists. Within this we have a dedicated Economic Development & Appraisal Team, led by Ben Pretty, specialising in business case development and appraisal, case making, economic impact assessment and economic analysis and research.

We advise clients on all aspects of economic development and growth, focusing particularly on property and place economics, where there is a distinct relationship to the built environment. We are able to apply our market facing property expertise to our leading economic development offer to bring market reality to our advice – this sets us apart from many traditional economic development practitioners. We are retained advisors to Homes England on its Strategic Research, Economics and Evaluation Framework Panel as well to a number of Mayoral Combined Authorities, Local Authorities and private sector developers nationally.

We are experts in the application of the latest HMT Green Book and MHCLG Appraisal Guide methodologies to inform our case making and economic appraisal work. Our work has assisted to secure over £300m of public sector funding over the past 2 years alone.