Valuation

Mark is a registered valuer and is a surveyor at Legat Owen who provides valuation and professional services.  He has worked in the commercial property market in Manchester, Liverpool and throughout the North West for over 15 years encompassing valuation and corporate advisory roles.

Mark’s experience is in secure lending, accounts, pension and portfolio valuation markets with experience across a number of property sectors including specialisms in retail, offices, industrial and residential sectors.

Mark is a keen golfer and a member of Caldy Golf Club and is the Junior Golf Organiser for Caldy.  He spends the rest of his spare time taking his children to golf, football or hockey events around the country.

Natalie, a Director at Legat Owen, joined the Company in 2003, qualifying as a Chartered Surveyor in 2006 and has over twenty years’ experience working within the Management and Professional departments.

Natalie advises clients on all aspects of property management, looking after a range of property portfolios across the North West of England and North Wales, including shopping centres, retail parades multi-occupied offices and industrial estates, on behalf of clients such as The Atmore Group, Pochin Limited, off-shore trusts and private individuals.

Natalie also advises clients on Rent Review, Lease Renewals and undertakes Valuations for a variety of purposes.

Natalie is an RICS Registered Valuer.

Will is a Chartered Surveyor with over 25 years expertise and experience in the North West and North Wales markets.

He has an intimate understanding of the residential development marketplace from strategic land promotion to oven-ready site disposal, end unit sales appraisal, valuation and viability. He advises on residential development land sales, valuation and strategic consultancy on schemes ranging from bespoke refurbishments to 1,000+ units.

He has a reputation for providing objective, measured, market-driven advice on residential development land sales and valuation across the North West and North Wales. He executes significant regional development land acquisitions and disposals and negotiates on complex land promotion, option and conditional contract matters.

He is also recognised as an expert witness and independent expert in residential development land valuation disputes and holds the Legal Experience Training Advanced Professional Award in Expert Witness Evidence (APAEWE).

He acts as a jointly appointed independent expert, provides expert evidence under Part 35 CPR as a party appointed expert and single joint expert, as well as representing landowners and national house builders as their appointed expert in contractual valuation disputes.

Will’s personable approach has built lasting relationships with his clients. He is a trusted advisor to a number of plc, private client, property company and pension fund clients.

External professional activities include:

• RICS North West Awards – Former Chairman of Judging Panel (2015 – 2020)
• Past RICS North West Regional Board Member
• Chairman Chester Association of Property Professionals (2019 – 2020)

Laura Bell joined Legat Owen in February 2022 after moving back to her homeland of north Wales after 12 years of living in Scotland, where she qualified as a Chartered Surveyor.

Laura Bell is a RICS Registered Valuer and her background is in commercial valuation, however her work at Legat Owen covers a broader range of disciplines including acquisitions (in particular for her primary client Tesco), disposals, Landlord & Tenant/lease advisory work and valuation. Her clients range from large corporates to public sector bodies, property companies and private individuals.

With an interest in education and as a former member of the Board of Trustees at the University College of Estate Management (UCEM), where she herself studied, Laura Bell is also a RICS APC Assessor and is a mentor to Legat Owen’s graduates, apprentices and placement students.

Outside of work, Laura Bell is mum to her daughter Maisie and enjoys spending time with family, walking her 2 dogs, cooking for friends, playing tennis and skiing.

Robert is a Chartered Surveyor and Registered RICS valuer with over 40 years experience in the Legat Owen area of influence, Cheshire, Chester and North Wales.

He has a wealth of experience in the sale of all types of residential property and new development land. He was a partner in two of the leading estate agency firms in Chester before providing consultancy advice to Legat Owen.

He has experience in the latest ‘state of the art’ marketing of high-end residential property and in addition to marketing such properties, prides himself on his ability to progress sales to completion. With his in-depth knowledge of property matters and the latest legislation, no sale problem is too difficult to resolve. He is regularly titled ‘Mr Chester’ in the estate agency world.

As an addition to his expertise in Estate agency, he conducts RICS Redbook valuations for inheritance tax, family law and capital gains purposes on instructions from solicitors and private clients and by direction of the County Court.

He is a past chairman of the Chester Association of Property Professionals. His ‘passion for cricket’ does not deflect from his ‘passion for property’.