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McCalmont-Woods Real Estate

CEO and founder Nick McCalmont-Woods BSc, MRICS, SIOR is a Chartered Surveyor with over 38 years’ experience advising corporate occupiers in central London and beyond.

Nick joined international real estate consultants Jones Lang Wootton in London in 1984 specialising initially in Landlord & Tenant and various property related tax matters before transferring to the firm’s City of London office agency team, becoming a Partner in 1995.

After 16 years with JLW (by then Jones Lang LaSalle) Nick joined GVA Grimley to help develop and grow its London City office. He did so, becoming an Equity Partner in 2001. In addition to heading GVA’s City Offices and Central London Offices agency team, while at GVA he also co-founded GVA Connect, a successful data-centre advisory business.

Nick is a proud member of various professional and business organisations. These include the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (since 1985), Society of Industrial & Office Realtors (European Chapter) and the Alliance of Tenant Representatives, a commercial real estate organisation whose independent member firms represent corporate occupiers exclusively and on whose Board Nick currently serves.

In London, Nick co-founded the Tenant Representation Advisors Society as a forum for training and education and to promote excellence in tenant representation. He is also a member of FIDES for over ten years, a trusted independent network providing bespoke services and holistic solutions for financial organisations and their stakeholders.

Sectors / Specialisms

  • Strategic property consultancy
  • Commercial office acquisitions and relocations (lease or purchase)
  • Rent review, lease renewal and lease restructure/surrender negotiations
  • Break option strategy (formulation and implementation)
  • Surplus property disposals (sublease, assignment and sales)
  • Reinstatement and dilapidations (strategy and resolution)
Nick McCalmont-Woods
CEO & Founder
+44 (0)20 3137 9732

Clients represented

  • Abbey Offices
  • Apex Group
  • Barclays
  • Cazenove Capital
  • Cooke, Young & Keidan
  • Hartree Partners
  • Hikma Pharmaceuticals
  • IBT Media
  • IFRS Foundation
  • International SOS
  • J.P.Morgan Cazenove
  • Prudential
  • Marketform
  • Neptune Energy
  • Newsquest Media Group
  • Orsted
  • Reach
  • TATA Communications
  • Town Legal
  • Woven Solutions Group

Case Studies

CASE STUDY

Orsted

Size:

81,000 sq ft

Location:

London, UK

Use:

Office

Project:

Lease Acquisition

CASE STUDY

Reach

Size:

27,000 sq ft

Location:

London, UK

Use:

Office

Project:

SubLease Disposal

CASE STUDY

International SOS

Size:

44,000 sq ft

Location:

London, UK

Use:

Office

Project:

Lease Restructure