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Our Team

Being an independent business has many advantages. We are able to properly value our team and to both retain and train genuine experts within our business.

It’s no coincidence that many of the Eric Young & Co team have been with the business for over 20 years.

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Andy Bain Partner

Andy is a partner and has been with Eric Young & Co for the last 25 years, working exclusively in the Retail Agency team, where he deals with high street acquisitions/disposals and shopping centre/retail park leasing and asset management. Andy heads the leasing teams on East Kilbride Shopping Centre; Dunfermline - Kingsgate; Edinburgh – New Waverley; Inverness – Eastgate and Irvine - Rivergate. With his wealth of high street knowledge and experience, Andy is regularly called as an Expert Witness.
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Simon Bashford Associate Partner

Simon has over 12 years’ agency experience in the commercial property sector, initially at JLL and for the last 7 years with Eric Young & Co as an associate partner, working across a broad range of sectors including leisure, retail and hotels. Simon is involved in asset management of various clients’ holdings, as well as exploring development opportunities of mixed use or single user projects such as hotels. Key clients include Cromwell Property Group, Legal & General, LaSalle Investment Management, Lidl, Pure Gym, Mactaggart & Mickel and Deutsche Bank.
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Ben Campbell-Roddis Trainee Surveyor

Ben has joined Eric Young & Co on a year’s placement from Glasgow Caledonian University, where he is studying Real Estate Management.
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Douglas Curley Partner

Douglas is a partner and has been with Eric Young & Co for over 29 years. He heads up the In Town Professional team, specialising in the conduct of rent reviews and lease renewals of retail and business space premises nationwide on behalf of both tenants and institutional landlords. Douglas is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He is also on the RICS Chairman’s Panel of Independent Experts and Arbitrators in Scotland.
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Robert Farmer Partner

Robert is a partner and heads up the Out of Town Agency team. He has extensive UK-wide experience having been involved with the out of town sector for over 30 years. Originally focussing almost exclusively on professional matters, since joining Eric Young & Co 23 years ago his workload has broadened to include asset management, leasing and tenant acquisitions. Robert provides rent review and lease consultancy advice to a number of key clients including British Land, Hammerson, The Crown, Columbia Threadneedle Investments and M&G Real Estate. He is also part of the UK-wide B&Q disposals/acquisitions team.
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Gordon Forbes Financial Controller

Gordon has held the role of Financial Controller with the business for over 10 years, having previously worked as a finance director within the manufacturing industry. Gordon’s responsibilities in the firm are wide-ranging and cover Finance, IT, HR and all other aspects of office management.
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Tom Forster Partner

Tom joined Eric Young & Co as a graduate surveyor 11 years ago and is now a partner in the Retail Agency team, dealing with high street and out of town instructions, as well as being part of the shopping centre team for Bon Accord - Aberdeen; Kingsgate - Dunfermline; Eastgate - Inverness; Rivergate - Irvine; The Centre - Livingston; Howgate - Falkirk; Oak Mall - Greenock and the Kingdom Centre - Glenrothes. In addition to his landlord work Tom also acts for a number of retailers clients in their acquisition and disposal work including LK Bennett, Bread Meats Bread and Ramsdens.
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Neil Gordon Partner

Neil is a partner at Eric Young & Co with over 25 years’ property experience. Having worked previously with Donaldsons and James Barr, Neil co-founded Simpson & Co in 1995, a niche Edinburgh agency specialising in the office market. Simpson & Co merged into Eric Young & Co in May 2000 and over that period Eric Young & Co has established an excellent reputation in the Scottish office market. Neil is responsible for office agency and lease consultancy.

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Mark Handyside Partner

Mark is a partner and heads up the Development team. Having previously been a director in a development company he has been with Eric Young & Co for the last 23 years. Mark’s achievements include advising Tesco on the acquisition of 76 new units totalling 2.75 million sq ft and B&Q on around 1.5 million sq ft of new retail floorspace, principally in Scotland and with a combined capital value in excess of £3 Billion. In addition to his extensive development and food sector real estate skills he also advises clients in the mixed use, leisure, residential land and student accommodation sectors. Key clients in addition to Tesco include commercial and residential developers, plc and private property companies, private landowners, family trusts and charities and universities.
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Anna Hansen Senior Surveyor

Anna joined Eric Young & Co in 2017 as a surveyor in the Retail Agency team, having started her professional career at CBRE. She is part of the leasing team on Fort Kinnaird, Edinburgh and East Kilbride Shopping Centre. Anna works closely with local and major landlords such as British Land and LaSalle Investment Management, while continuing her acquisition work representing retailers including Pret a Manger, Therapie, Craig & Rose and Nisbets.
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Kevin Hughes Partner

Kevin is a partner in the Retail Agency team having joined the business 11 years ago from Cushman & Wakefield. Kevin heads the leasing team on Cameron Toll, Edinburgh; Westside Plaza in Edinburgh , Kilmarnock – Burns Mall and The Piazza in Paisley. Kevin also acts for Starbucks in their acquisition and disposal work.
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Duart Keith Partner

Duart joined Eric Young & Co 23 years ago from James Barr & Son. He is a partner and heads up the Investment team. His specialism is mainly across retail, retail warehousing and shopping centres throughout the UK, with localised business and office space experience. Duart always seeks to provide straightforward, clear and commercial advice.
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Eric Lindgren Partner

Eric is a partner in the Retail Agency team and has been with the business since qualifying over 25 years ago. Having been involved in high street agency for a number of years, Eric has specialised over the last 10 years or so in the ever growing restaurant and leisure sector and his knowledge and expertise in this area is second to none. Key clients include Pizza Express, Byron and Azzurri Restaurants (Zizzi / Ask Italian).
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Gregor Martin Partner

Gregor joined the business 8 years ago from Kenmore Property Group. He is a partner in the Investment team, where he advises on commercial property investment transactions throughout the UK, with particular emphasis on retail, office and industrial assets in Scotland. He acts on behalf of a variety of clients including private investors, property companies, banks and institutional funds.
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Neil McConnachie Partner

Neil joined Eric Young & Co in 2004 specialising in office agency. He is a partner and manages both landlord disposals and tenant acquisitions across Scotland. As well as acting for a number of established professional firms Neil has worked with many young technology companies and has played an integral role in helping them grow their businesses by negotiating deals for them to relocate to new office premises. Neil is recognised by his peers as having excellent market knowledge and is an able and tenacious negotiator.
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Guy Paterson Graduate Surveyor

Guy joined Eric Young & Co in 2017 as a graduate surveyor in the Retail Agency team and is currently working towards his APC.
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Alastair Rowe Associate Partner

Alastair joined Eric Young & Co 7 years ago as a graduate surveyor and is now an associate partner in the Retail Agency team where he deals with high street agency and heads the leasing team for the Artizan Shopping Centre in Dumbarton. Alastair is also part of the leasing team for Cameron Toll, Edinburgh; Westside Plaza, Edinburgh; The Centre – Livingston; Glenrothes – Kingdom Centre; Kirkcaldy - Mercat and The Thistles in Stirling.
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Ian Whelan Managing Partner

Ian leads the Retail Agency team and is Managing Partner at Eric Young & Co. He has been with the business for over 23 years and has extensive experience in the UK retail property market. Ian acquired all of Primark’s Scottish stores and his track record of delivering major deals, knowledge of the retail property scene and high level contacts with major retailers and agents is second to none. Ian heads the leasing teams on Edinburgh – Fort Kinnaird; Aberdeen – Bon Accord / St Nicholas; Glasgow – St Enoch; Stirling – The Thistles; Livingston – The Centre; Falkirk – Central Retail Park and Kirkcaldy – Fife Central Retail Park.
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Craig Wilson Partner

Craig is a partner and has been with Eric Young & Co for over 20 years, working across the Rating and Out of Town Professional teams. In his role heading up the Rating team, he is widely recognised as an expert in the industry, providing bespoke advice to clients in all property sectors throughout the UK. Craig is also jointly responsible for rent reviews in the out of town and food sector which includes representation of Asda, Farmfoods, B&Q, Wickes and Boots. Craig also serves on the Board of Accessible Retail, a networking, fundraising and lobby group for over 1,000 property professionals in the Out of Town retail sector.
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Eric Young Partner

Eric Young founded Eric Young & Co in 1983. In addition to fulfilling the role of Chairman of the business, Eric is also chair of Archangels, the business angel syndicate and Scottish Enterprise partner responsible for £10m of annual investment in technology and life sciences high-growth start-ups.

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Deb Fey Personal Assistant

Deb has worked with Eric Young & Co and been Andy Bain’s personal assistant for 11 years. Deb is responsible for providing secretarial support within the Shopping Centres and High Street teams. Previously Deb worked in the property development sector.

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Audrey Gebbie Finance Administrator

Audrey has been with the business for the last 21 years in various roles, having previously worked for a firm of chartered accountants in a secretarial role. In addition to working as a finance assistant within the Finance team, Audrey also has responsibility for our in-house Access database.

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Kirsten Gillies Personal Assistant

Kirsten has worked with Eric Young & Co and been personal assistant to Eric Young for over 26 years. In addition to heading up the secretarial support team, she provides secretarial assistance to the In Town Professional and Restaurant & Leisure teams within the business. Before joining the firm, Kirsten worked in the drinks and advertising industries.
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Janine Hughes Personal Assistant

Janine has enjoyed working as a personal assistant in the business for over 10 years. As well as providing secretarial support for the Business Space and Investment teams, Janine is responsible for preparation of the firm’s in-house property particulars.

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Debbie O’Connor Marketing Administrator

Debbie has been with the business for the last 20 years and her part-time role includes managing the website, producing brochures and property particulars, handling PR and dealing with graphics, images and maps. She works mainly with the retail team and also supports the business space and development agency teams.
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Lucy Robinson Personal Assistant

Lucy began working as a personal assistant for Eric Young & Co in 2007, having previously worked as a secretary at a Glasgow-based media company. She provides secretarial support to the Out of Town, Professional, Development and Rating teams, with additional responsibilities relating to the Rating Revaluation appeal process.
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Rowan Taylor Personal Assistant

Rowan has worked as a personal assistant with the business for the past 25 years, having previously worked in Glasgow for several chartered surveyors and property development companies. In addition to providing secretarial support within the High Street and Shopping Centres & Shopping Parks teams, Rowan has specific responsibility for the firm’s marketing and office facilities management.