Appointments

Legal and tax advice firm Turcan Connell has secured two strategic hires for its land and property team with the addition of Murray Soutar and Lesley Roarty. Murray Soutar re-joins the firm as a partner having established a career as a specialist advisor in rural property. He first began his career

Property and construction company Thomas & Adamson (T&A) has announced the promotion of Heather Holbrook to Partner. The director has been promoted after an incredibly successful decade at the company, which has included leading on some of the highest profile projects in T&A’s port

Wates Group has appointed Eoghan O’Lionaird as its new chief executive. Eoghan joins the company on 20 February 2023, from his previous role as chief executive at FTSE-listed marine services company James Fisher and Sons plc. He will sit on the Wates Group board.

Avant Homes Scotland has appointed Andrew Statham as a senior land manager to further enable the housebuilder’s nationwide expansion. Mr Statham, who joins from property investment firm Manse, has 15 years’ experience in residential and commercial property acquisitions. In his new role,

Kier Group has appointed Louisa Finlay as its chief people officer and part of the group’s executive committee with effect from March 6. Currently Kier Construction’s clients and markets managing director, Louisa will take over from Helen Redfern, who will be leaving Kier after ten succe

Sector body Homes for Scotland (HFS) has announced the promotion of planning team members Liz Hamilton and Richard Lewington. Liz Hamilton becomes director of planning and Richard Principal is the body's new planning adviser.

Real estate developer and investment company Simply UK has made several senior management promotions and a key new addition to its board of directors. Linda Meston has been promoted to Simply Care group managing director overseeing the Morar and Portland portfolios.

Borders-based estate agency Paton & Co has appointed Fiona Pagett as Partner. Ms Pagett joins from Rettie & Co, where she was a senior sales negotiator and valuer.

JR Group site manager Stephen Robertson has been promoted to the new role of contracts manager. Stephen, who has worked as a site manager for The JR Group since joining the team in August 2018, received the promotion following his success on delivering high quality projects to an exacting standard -

Glasgow-based electrical business A Alexander Group has created two new management roles following the company’s continued growth. Gordon Anderson has been appointed electrical small works manager and Alex Lawther has become fire & security service manager.

CHAP Group has added Derek Shewan to its board as a non-executive director. A well-known and respected character in the Scottish construction industry, Mr Shewan has spent over 40 years working for tier-one contractors, latterly in the role of CEO.

JLL has announced that Cameron Stott will take on a new role as head of Scotland. Mr Stott will replace Alasdair Humphery who after 20 years in leadership positions, will take on a consultant role in JLL’s capital markets team.

Lee Sturdy has joined Kier in the newly created role of science and technology director for its construction business. The move will see Lee lead on Kier Construction’s life sciences capability, setting the strategic direction as it expands its work in this rapidly growing, specialist sec

Real estate advisor CBRE has strengthened its Capital Markets team in Scotland with a key senior appointment. Andrew Shiells has joined the firm as a senior director from JLL. He has over 20 years’ investment experience, advising a broad range of national and international clients in the comme

Cushman & Wakefield’s Scottish business chair David Davidson is to retire in March after a 31-year career with the firm and will be succeeded as head of capital markets Scotland by Stephen Bibby. Mr Davidson joined Cushman & Wakefield in 1992 to lead what was then Healey & Baker&rs