Knight Frank, the leading independent global property consultancy, has further strengthened its Global Data Centre Valuations & Consultancy team with new appointments, as it responds to the significant increase in global demand for the data centre market.
Isobel Green has joined as Senior Surveyor alongside Harry Hannam who has also joined as a Senior Research Analyst from the Macquarie Group. Selda Selgjekaj joins as Business Support Coordinator with the team further supported by graduate Olamide Emiloju.
These appointments further enhance Knight Frank’s market-leading data centres valuations team and follow a period of rapid growth, with the entire multi-disciplinary data centres team now comprising 16 individuals globally.
Alex Burgoyne, Head of Data Centre Valuations at Knight Frank, said: “As the data centre sector witnesses unparalleled expansion globally, we are thrilled to be growing the team in line with the market and bolstering our global remit.
“The team’s expansion is testament to our commitment to provide our global client base with unrivalled international valuation support combined with market-leading insight. We look forward to continuing to work with our international valuations and capital markets teams ensuring we continue to be a market leader in both the major and emerging data centre markets globally.”
Knight Frank’s data centres team is a core part of the firm’s global service line, drawing on its wide-reaching international network including the key FLAPD markets, MENA, and the core APAC markets.
The team offers a full spectrum of data centres market services around the globe specialising in investment, site transactions and occupier advisory, in addition to valuation, consultancy and research. The team regularly advises leading financial institutions, streaming providers, data centre operators, developers and landowners, capitalising on the firm’s well-established commercial and land expertise.
In the past 12 months, Knight Frank’s Data Centre Valuation & Consultancy team has valued over £5.5bn in data centre investments across the EMEA and APAC markets.
