Property
Who we are:
Property Director
Corporate Property & Asset Management Surveyor
Building & Investment Projects Surveyor
Commercial Operations & Resource Manager
What we do:
Property
The Property Team is responsible for managing the University’s multi-million-pound property portfolio, which is held to support the core academic mission of the institution. Although this portfolio is separate from the University’s operational estate, it is strategically adjacent and managed to generate ethical, sustainable income, capital receipts, and maximize value through commercial partnerships and collaborations. The team’s primary focus is on prudent asset stewardship to ensure the long-term protection of the University’s interests.
Our work encompasses land development, asset management, and the daily management of a diverse portfolio of circa 250 properties that includes retail, residential, office, and science sector properties. We oversee commercial real estate lettings and transactions with academic partners, businesses, and external organizations, while also fostering and expanding collaborative partnerships between the University and external companies.
Additionally, we serve as an in-house, RICS-accredited real estate knowledge bank. We provide expertise on property and land-related matters to both academic schools and University leadership, ensuring optimal value and safeguarding the University’s interests. This includes property valuation expertise for investment and development viability, asset valuations for financial accounting, disposals and acquisitions, business rates, and buildings insurance.
The Property Team also acts as the University’s point of contact for managing property consultants, including planning advisors, real estate agents, and legal professionals on matter relating to the tenanted portfolio.
For any property-related inquiries, please contact propertyservices@reading.ac.uk. Our team will be happy to assist and provide advice.
Residential Property Lettings
- For residential letting enquiries, please contact Walmsley Letting Agents @ lettings@walmsley.co.uk
- For residential maintenance enquiries, please contact Walmsley Letting Agents @ maintenance@walmsley.co.uk
Commercial Property Lettings
- For commercial lettings enquiries @
- Reading Enterprise Centre, Earley Gate Whiteknights - (Click on Brochure)
- Gateway Building, 1 Collegiate Square, Shinfield - (Click on Brochure)
Please contact Haslams Chartered Surveyors
Harry Bevins, harrybevins@haslams.co.uk
Georgia Fearn, georgiafearn@haslams.co.uk
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For other commercial lettings or property management matters - please contact propertyservices@reading.ac.uk
Highlights:
- Partnering with Shinfield Studios and Wokingham Council to deliver the Shinfield Studios Film Studios in Shinfield approaching nearly 1 million sqft of Studio space and 18 purpose built stages.
- Secured significant letting of former academic Knight building on Whiteknights Campus to RSSL/Mondelez International for use as a laboratory research facility.
- Secured significant letting of former academic Blandford Lodge building on Whiteknights Campus to Cambridge Educations Group Ltd.
- Secured significant letting of Erleigh House to Berkshire Health Care Foundation Trust as their regional hub for Speech and Language Services.
- Secured significant letting in Shinfield to the Natural History Museum and worked on ensuring respective planning consents for the NHM building and access road approved.
- Led the acquisition of farmland at Riseley and Farley totalling 829 acres on behalf of the University Farm.
- Managing and overseeing the strategic expansion and delivery of Thames Valley Science Park site in Shinfield Thames Valley Science Park