SHW has announced that it has promoted two of its Directors to Partner level, taking its Partner total to 25.

Gemma Quinn will take the title of Partner and Head of the Professional Services Team covering SHW’s London and South London offices. Having joined SHW in 2017, Gemma was promoted to Director in 2021. With her expertise focusing on Valuations and Leasehold Enfranchisement, Gemma works primarily as a Registered Valuer. SHW is on the valuation panel for most high street mortgage lenders and Gemma and her team carry out secured lending valuations on a broad variety of asset classes, most notably Residential, Commercial and Industrial, as well as specialist valuations of nurseries, GP practices, churches, and HMOs, for Family Trusts and private individuals. As part of her lease extension work, she has successfully represented her leaseholder clients against a number of London-based, landed estates, as well as representing freeholders in lease extension negotiations and collective enfranchisement claims.

Duncan Bannister joined SHW in 2013 from a local independent surveyor, appointed as a Property Manager and promoted to Senior Property Manager in 2015. In 2017 he was promoted to an Associate and became RICS qualified and in 2021 was promoted to Director. Heading up the Private Rented Sector (PRS) department at SHW, Duncan has combined the two regional PRS teams within the firm (the South London and East Sussex offices) and helped to increase the total properties managed from 300 to now over 600 and is looking to continue to grow the department further.