Following a sustained period of new appointments, the Leeds office of Summers-Inman, a construction and property consultancy, is expanding its footprint at Thorpe Park Leeds.
Although established for 35+ years in Leeds city centre, the firm moved up to Thorpe Park in 2006. Now, due to winning several new projects, embarking on a long-term business plan and recruiting additional staff, Summers-Inman has taken a five-year lease on 1,550 sq ft of space only a short distance from where the office was previously, which will enable future expansion plans in the region.
To that end, two new additions have also been made to the team bringing the current total of staff in Leeds to twelve.
Ryan Kirk joins as a senior building surveyor. He has 15 years of experience gained at a national consultancy and has been working on Summers-Inman’s national client accounts providing due diligence, dilapidation reports and professional and project building surveying services.
The second new appointment is James Lee, a quantity surveyor, with six years of experience aiming to become MRICS later this year. James will be working closely with Director of the Leeds office, David Blakey, in providing Cost Management and Employer’s Agent services to many of the firm’s clients in various sectors.
Commenting on the new office and expanding team, David Blakey, said: “I am delighted by the success of the Leeds office. It has always been our intention to expand Summers-Inman in the Yorkshire area – our Leeds office falls within the northern region of our business, which also includes Newcastle, Teesside and Manchester – and we are finding that the wider Yorkshire, Humberside and Teesside markets are very receptive to our message and way of doing things.
“If you also factor into this, the enviable position Leeds enjoys as a strong financial centre and the inward investment proposition of this area as a whole, there have been many opportunities for us to win new work.”
