CONWAY RELF VETERANS SET UP NEW AGENCY

WEST END VETERAN MICHAEL Fraser and his colleague, Ian Kitchener, have left Conway Relf to start their own agency firm.

The pair, along with Conway Relf professional expert Judy Oliver, last week set up CFK, which will be based in Regent Street.

The firm will focus on the West End and Midtown markets, dealing with the acquisition and disposal of office space, as well as professional services.

Fraser and Kitchener decided to go it alone to focus on the agency side of the business and on the internet as a means of driving business. They have set up www.findalondonoffice.co.uk, a database that assist occupiers to gauge how much space they need and highlights office space in the city.

CFK now plans to embark on a recruitment drive.

Among its clients are Credit Suisse, Thames Bank Property Company, Aberdeen Property Investors, GMS Estates, Arlington Property Investors and Rowan Asset Management, as well as several occupiers.

Fraser worked at Conway Relf for 33 years, Kitchener for 12 years.

The Scilly season

The Hell Bay Hotel on the tiny island of Bryher in the Isles of Scilly has had one of its best-ever seasons thanks to the ‘property boys’ from London.

A marketing campaign by Credit Suisse Property Investment, a client of Conway Relf’s Michael Fraser, and Patrick Despard’s City & West End Developments involved incentives around the theme of ‘let a floor and we will send you to Hell’. Hell Bay is now a popular holiday destination for London-based agents.

In these buoyant times for property, however, surely Hell Bay is the wrong place for the agents?

Island Hotel, its sister business on neighbouring Tresco, may be more appropriate – it is known as Heaven.