Richard Hogg, the head of valuation and advisory services in the Czech and Slovak republics, is a new partner at real estate service firm Cushman & Wakefield.
He has more than eight years’ experience in real estate and was head of valuation for rival real estate firm DTZ in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Before that, he worked in London for Cushman & Wakefield in London in the hotels and valuation departments. He joined the Prague office of Cushman & Wakefield in 2007 as head of valuation.
Hogg holds a bachelor’s degree in real estate management from Nottingham Trent University and is a professional member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and a member of the RICS board in the Czech Republic.
His team provides valuation and advisory services across all property market sectors and for purposes including acquisition and disposal, financing, accounting, and development analysis. The team has six valuers, including four RICS Chartered Valuation Surveyors.
Cushman & Wakefield is the world’s largest privately-held commercial real estate services firm. It was founded in 1917 and now has 230 offices in 60 countries and more than 13,000 employees.The firm entered the Czech market in 1993 and employs 126 people in its Prague and Bratislava offices, according to a C&W press release.
The firm offers services in five disciplines. Aside from valuation and advisory, there are transaction services, including tenant and landlord representation in office, industrial and retail real estate; capital markets, including property sales, investment management, investment banking, debt and equity financing; client solutions, including integrated real estate strategies for large corporations and property owners; and consulting services, including business and real estate consulting.