KNIGHT Frank has appointed Thomas Blencowe as director of its expanding investment sales team in Victoria.
Blencowe has over 12 years of experience working in commercial property, beginning as a valuer before entering sales and is joining the Victorian team as it revs up for renewed activity across the investment market.
“Activity has substantially increased now that Melbourne and regional Victoria have experienced a significant easing of restrictions,” said Langton McHarg, head of investment sales and partner at Knight Frank.
“With free travel across the state, along with domestic and international flights opening up, we anticipate it will only get a lot busier for the remainder of 2021 and especially heading into the new year.”
Blencowe has largely worked with domestic and offshore wholesale and listed investment trust, superannuation funds, sovereign wealth funds, developers, syndicators and private investors.
“Thomas’ appointment will provide for a further expansion of our team, and his unique skill set, being from a valuation background, will strengthen it,” added McHarg.
Blencowe is coming to Knight Frank after working as JLL’s director and head of Victorian metro office market valuations and national dead of data centre valuations.
“I am joining a team in Victoria with extremely well-experienced agents and with my heightened level of analytical skills we will be able to unlock a greater number of opportunities in a market that is forever getting further sophisticated,” said Blencowe.
Blencowe is joining the growing team, which was expanded in February of this year with the appointments of Langton McHarg as partner and head of investment sales and Stephen Kelly James Thorpe as directors. In addition to Myles Neville who, also from JLL, joined the Knight Frank investment sales team as Senior Executive.
“We are finding more and more as we approach the end of the calendar year that large groups both locally and offshore are keen to get on with it, with an eye on long-term fundamentals, resulting in significant amounts of capital still eager to set themselves in Melbourne,” added Blencowe.
