Place 100, 2009: 31 to 100 M-Z

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Istikhar and Nasira Majid / Directors / Pin Property / Development / Manchester. Own and manage a portfolio of 2m sq ft of offices and industrial across the North West from the modest environs of Miles Platting. Have carried on building speculatively through the recession with the 130,000 sq ft Manor Point warehouse in Runcorn completed in the summer. The Majids own prime sites in Birchwood and North Manchester Business Park.

Dominic Manfredi / Director / Aedas / Architecture / Manchester. Despite the economic downturn, 2009 has been a successful year with Manfredi leading the design of the New Force Headquarters and Divisional Headquarters for Greater Manchester Police located on Central Park, which have both obtained planning permission this year. Force Headquarters started construction on site, and Divisional Headquarters is set to start next year. 2009 has also delivered competition wins to design the new offices for Blackpool Council as part of Muse's (qv) Talbot Gateway masterplan and a number of residential developments in the zero carbon city MASDAR, Abu Dhabi. Recently completed projects include: 40 Springardens, Belvedere, Block 6 Greenquarter, Leftbank Apartments, One Central Park, Advent Site Phase 1, Manchester and Wicker Riverside in Sheffield.

Simon Marshall / Group Chairman / Marshall Construction and Marshall Commercial Development Projects / Elland, West Yorkshire. Possibly the only Yorkshire-based business on the list but a repeated name on judges' lips, due to the prolific Marshall CDP production line of speculative development. Arguably nobody has spec'd more industrial and office space in the North West in the past 20 years than Marshall, with literally dozens of completed and current schemes to his name. Daresbury Park, Cheshire Business Park in Lostock, Lion Park in Knowsley keep the space coming. The year veered from the collapse of sale of 56 office units to Pinder Fry & Benjamin to signing the Home Office for 157,000 sq ft in Birchwood.

Geoff Mason / Managing Partner / Mason & Partners / Surveying, Consultancy and Investment / Liverpool. Low-key but powerful figure on Merseyside and indeed national property scene. Invests in own right too as evidenced by his family's sale of 35,000 sq ft Atlantic House in Sefton to One Vision Housing for an undisclosed sum last year. Co-founded (with Barry Owen qv), and was senior partner of, Mason Owen & Partners, in 1967 but left to go his own way in 1993. Mason & Partners has 30 staff and a second office in London. Much of its work is transacted outside the North West including the £235m development at Parkgate World in Rotherham.

Mike Mitchell / Managing Director of the Regions outside London / DTZ / Surveying and consultancy / Manchester. Promoted to the wider regional position after running the Manchester office of over 100 staff, Mitchell is an investment agent with extra responsibility for marketing, business development and client management across DTZ's core client sectors. The investment team regularly transacts over £500m in deals annually and this year's tally included advising on the sale of Umbro's HQ, Lakeside 5000, for £8.7m, the sale of BDP's studio for £7m,and the £14m disposal of the HMV building on Manchester's Market Street. The dominant office team, led by Ken Bishop, has great market share in the city centre, not least due to its work on Spinningfields. The development consulting team has recently completed one of the largest consulting contracts in the NW - to produce a strategic masterplan for the redevelopment of Maryport harbour in Cumbria. DTZ's property Management team is the biggest in the NW both in team size and total managed space. Will be hoping the group's redundancies are at an end. Star players: Ken Bishop, offices, Bruce Poizer, investment, John Adlen, regeneration, development Mitchell on 2009: "I've been at DTZ for 30 years yet the future is as exciting now as when I started. 2009 was a transformational year for DTZ. I am confident 2010 will see our clients and DTZ reap the benefits."

David Moore / Managing Partner / Tushingham Moore / Retail Surveying and Consultancy / Manchester and Liverpool. Set up Tushingham Moore more than 20 years ago with Philip Tushingham, ex of Liverpool agency Mason Owen (qv), after abandoning London, having worked for Churston Heard and Fletcher King. In a relatively short space of time has established a top tier retail agency. Advises landlords of 30 shopping centres including the Arndale Centre, Trafford Centre and Liverpool One. Tushingham returned to his native New Zealand when his parents retired there in 2003. The agency has grown to 22 surveyors, including five equity partners and 10 associates. No one has been made redundant during the recession. Andrea George joined from Knight Frank in July as partner. Star players: Paul Jones, retail investment, Jeremy Simpson and Stephen Tregenza, leasing

Howard Morgan / Director and Head of Office / Savills / Surveying and consultancy / Manchester. Having joined Savills in 1998, Morgan is currently head of the company's Manchester office and also Savills' northern building consultancy department, which incorporates a 25-strong team across Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds and Glasgow. Established in June 1996, the Savills Manchester office combines both commercial and residential elements of the business and has grown to 130 people. Significant commercial deals/instructions over the last 12 months include: Manchester City Council letting at First Street, NHS North West letting at Piccadilly Place, Mac/Jo Malone lettings at Metquarter, sale of HQ Chester in Cheshire on behalf of RREEF Real Estate and Liberty Properties (qv) to Cheshire West & Chester Council, Helena Partnerships' new headquarters in St Helens, refurbishment of Tithebarn House, Liverpool for Kenmore Property, and the sale of No 1 Balloon Street, Manchester on behalf of Standard Life. Star players: Patrick Joynson, offices, John Agnew, retail

Steve Morgan / Chairman / Redrow / House-building / Deeside. The Liverpool-born LFC fanatic and Wolverhampton Wanderers owner returned to the company he formed in the 1970s in March 2009 after mounting a successful boardroom coup. In September he announced a £150m rights issue to pay off debt and raise funds for land acquisition. Redrow also paid Morgan £15m to buy-out his Warrington-based development business Harrow, founded in 2001 with land broker Mike Riding, who now works for Trevor Hemmings (qv). Harrow brings Redrow five freehold land assets and options to acquire seven further strategic land assets. Redrow's debt facilities feel from £425m to £250m as a result of the rights issue, easing covenants and joint ventures. Morgan controls 29.9% of Redrow shares. Well-known in Liverpool for his charity work; donating substantial amounts to Alder Hey Children's Hospital and raising funds through his Morgan Foundation.

Oliver Morley / Managing Director / Morley Estates / Development and Investment / Altrincham. Set up Morley Estates in 1995 in the wake of the last big recession, with the acquisition of a four-storey mill in Middleton, Oldham. Now based in Altrincham, Cheshire, the Salford-born developer has a 26-scheme portfolio, comprising 3.5m sq ft across the North West. Morley has been more active than many in the recession, securing a host of deals including 59,000 sq ft of space at Stonecross Park in Golbourne to Ansell Lighting, 115,000 sq ft to Park Foods and 96,000 sq ft to TWA Logistics at Candy Park, Wirral. In the summer, Morley achieved planning consent for phase one at Empress Park in Haydock, Merseyside, a scheme which is being part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund. This coincided with the scheme's first pre-let, of 10,500 sq ft, to Chloride, one of Europe's leading suppliers of uninterruptible power supply systems and services.

Henry Moser / Chairman / Jerrold Holdings / Finance / Manchester. The reclusive Moser and his family own 70% of the equity with Barclays Private Equity owning the balance. Jerrold's principal vehicles include Blemain, which specialises in secured lending to property investors, and Bridging Finance. A £900m funding package led by the RBS was agreed in November 2007, which looks fortuitous now. However, Jerrold has not been immune to the recession and Moser's net wealth is believed to have fallen to £165m - down from the c£300m at the time of Barclay's investment. Moser founded the company in 1973.

John Moss / Group Chief Executive / Pochin / Construction, Development, Concrete / Cheshire. A civil engineer by trade, Moss arrived at listed Pochin in 2008 from Amec, where he ran the rail business, to conduct a review of the diverse Pochin group and restructure the struggling construction division for leaner times. He was appointed group chief executive in June 2009. The development arm, headed by Jim Nicholson, has many attractive schemes in the region including Midpoint 18 in Middlewich and Exchange Flags, the Liverpool offices JV with UK Land & Property (qv). Pochin reported a £9.4m loss for the year to the end of May 2009, a sharp fall from a £1.8m profit the year before. The group recorded a turnover of £102m, compared to £115m in 2008, and cancelled its final dividend. The loss was due to falling values of its portfolio, down from £53m to £38m.

Danny Murray / Managing Director for the North West / Morgan Ashurst / Construction / Salford. Appointed to his current role with Morgan Ashurst in 2007. Worked for Amec Design and Property Services before the takeover by Morgan Sindall, which then added Bluestone to form Morgan Ashurst. Spent 20 years with Mowlem prior to all that. The past 12 months have seen a £71.4m contract won from Airbus to build another wing assembly facility in Broughton, Flintshire. Also awarded two projects worth a total of £55m by Liverpool City Council under its Building Schools for the Future programme. Reached financial close and started on site with the Wigan Life Centre public services hub, worth £50m to Morgan Ashurst.

Barry Owen / Managing Partner / Mason Owen / Surveying and Consultancy / Liverpool. Dapper and popular veteran of Liverpool's highs and lows, made his name with the rise of retailers Kwik Save, Iceland and Ethel Austin. Has equity in and chairs the Ethel Austin Property Trust. Established the firm in 1967 with Geoff Mason (qv). The firm now has further offices in London, Edinburgh and Dublin although the bulk of the 100-plus staff are still based in Liverpool. Known as much for his philanthropy as his tremendous contacts and was honoured with an OBE from the Queen. Star players: Chris Connor, offices, Peter Burke, retail

Peter Owen / Managing Director / Legat Owen / Surveying and Consultancy / Chester. Co-founded the firm in 1986 and has overseen steady growth with the current headcount just over 30. Has built a tidy niche as a high volume, lower margin leader in Cheshire's and North Wales' leasing markets. Advised on the HQ Chester office disposal to the council - the city's biggest transaction this year. The firm's famous annual party at the start of each year is reputed to pay for itself with instructions the next day. Star players: Steve Wade, industrial, Llyr Emanuel, retail, Peter Johnston, offices

Simon Parker / Managing Director / UK Land & Property / Development / Liverpool. Graduated from Harvard University with a masters degree in 1991 and worked with American developers before returning to the UK. Early career involved working on Canary Wharf in London and the Manchester Evening News Arena before leading Intercity's many projects in Speke and Garston, Liverpool, most notably the Boulevard Industry Park for suppliers to nearby Jaguar, during the 1990s. Subsequently founded UKLP, which develops across Merseyside, North Wales and Manchester. Often works in joint venture with, among others, Pochin (qv). He and his experienced project management team are now working alongside funds and institutions in the distressed asset market. Extracting Liverpool's Exchange Flags from Bill Davies' clutches assures him almost legendary status for years to come.

Richard Pellatt / Director / Highcross / Property Fund Management / Manchester. Set up the Manchester office of Highcross in 2006 after six years with DTZ in London as a national investment agent. Sources, negotiates and acquires investment product both nationwide and across the North, spending £100m of investors' funds on prime kit in his first 12 months. Major deals included the acquisition of the Manchester International Office Centre. This year sold a 150,000 sq ft speculatively developed distribution warehouse in Crewe to Bentley for its World Parts Centre for £10m and The Rack, an 80,000 sq ft refurbished warehouse in Knowsley for £3m. In March 2008, Highcross raised approaching £450m in equity for its third UK property fund, taking the combined potential value of its three funds to £3bn.

Robert Pinkus / Senior Partner / Robert Pinkus & Co / Surveying and consultancy / Preston. Spent five years working for other agencies including a stint in London before setting up his own practice in Preston in 1970, still only in his mid-20s. Today the small but prolific business has 12 staff - partners include his son Danny Pinkus - and produced £1.5m turnover in the year to April 2009. The agency boasts extensive market share in Lancashire and often appears as the local alongside the national agent on lettting boards. Pinkus has a particular interest and considerable experience in the development of food supermarkets and has advised on all of the new store developments of EH Booth & Co of Preston since 1970. Now aged 65, Pinkus says he has no intention of retiring.

David Porter / Managing Partner and Head of North West Commercial / Knight Frank / Surveying and consultancy / Manchester and Liverpool. Left the London offices team of Knight Frank in 2006 to move back to his native North West, overseeing Knight Frank's Liverpool office launch, together with its office agency team in Manchester. In November 2007, he was promoted to managing partner of the North West. Maintains a day-to-day agency role for clients including Grosvenor Estates, Liberty Trust, Countryside Properties, CDP, UK Land & Property, Downing Developments, and Land Securities. Porter on 2009: "After a very tough 2008 which saw us restructure our business across the north west, 2009 has seen some promising results. There has been a distinct upturn in the investment markets with our team out-performing the competition, whilst our strong professional service lines have continued to generate a steady level of fee income. No one is out of the woods yet but we are certainly holding our own at present."

Mark Rawstron / Senior Regional Director / GVA Grimley / Surveying and Consultancy / Manchester and Liverpool. The firm's private partnership structure enabled it to refrain from the more public announcements made by competitors re redundancies this year although not immune itself. GVA is known in the region for its big valuations team and is respected for its expertise in regeneration advice, led by Gerry Hughes, and strategic work for Manchester City Council and Greater Manchester Property Venture Fund. Rawstron took the top job four years ago and has 140 staff, mostly in Manchester with a handful in Liverpool. Star players: Simon Reynolds, offices, Nick Whipp, development, Gerry Hughes, regeneration

John Schofield / Director of Business & Commercial Property Finance / The Royal Bank of Scotland / Manchester. Heads up the commercial property finance team for RBS in Greater Manchester. Based in Spinningfields, he leads 12 relationship managers and 14 support staff, lending to commercial property customers that have a turnover of up to £25m. During 2009 the team, despite the extraordinarily torrid times for the group, completed several notable transactions in the North West: Sinderland Properties, an £8m loan to fund a new Waitrose store in Altrincham; Care Concepts, £4m loan to develop a new care home in Warrington, a £4m loan to fund a prime retail and hotel development in the North.

Brian Scowcroft / Owner / Alard Properties / Development / Carlisle and Leigh. The 53-year-old upped sticks from his native Manchester following the sale of the family firm, Swinton Insurance, in the 1990s. Family weekends in Cumbria persuaded him to relocate and he took up property, initially investing in industrial property back in Manchester. However, once in situ in Bowness, he spotted the potential of Kingmoor Park in Carlisle, a derelict 400-acre site, a development he is still most typically associated with. In May, he announced plans to develop 25 acres of industrial land close to Leigh town centre with a mix of commercial, residential and leisure.

John Seddon & Family / Owner Directors / Seddon Group / Construction / Holmes Chapel. Family-owned contractor and developer founded more than 100 years ago. Turnover dipped £25m to £246m in 2008, but the group still turned a slight profit, £1.2m, down from £11.5m. Current work includes the Belong Wigan residential care centre, which has won awards for building excellence. The construction and development sides of the business show net assets of £80m in total.

Peter Skelton / Head of Manchester office and Board Member / Lambert Smith Hampton / Surveying and consultancy / Manchester. Has a seat at the top table of office agents in the city with an enviable glut of developer and corporate clients. Another busy year has taken in advising Ask:Goodman on the pre-sale of a site at Central Park for the new Greater Manchester Police HQ, advising NWDA on vacant sites in Ancoats and reviewing the BBC's Oxford Road site as it prepares for the move to Media City UK. Star players: Tony McAteer, planning and regeneration, Andrew Aherne, industrial, Nick Davies, valuation

Fred Story / Chief Executive / Story Group / House-building, Commercial Development, Civil and Rail Engineering / Carlisle. Bought the Camelot Theme Park out of receivership in March and leased the park to the newly-formed leisure group Knights Leisure, re-opening it in May. Story is a cash-rich former owner of Carlisle United FC with steady revenue from his rail and civils business. Is on the land acquisition trail, hence the Camelot deal, as there is much undeveloped brownfield land at the park. Progress has slowed at the Waterfront Village scheme in Barrow where Story was appointed preferred developer by the public sector in 2008. Talks with the HCA over gap funding are ongoing.

David Swaffield / Partner and Head of Property and Construction / Hill Dickinson / Law / Liverpool and Manchester. Heads the practice group and sits on the firm's management board. The practice group's clients include Iceland Foods, Peel Holdings, Liverpool City Council, Chester Zoo and NCP. Swaffield joined Hill Dickinson in 1979 and became partner in 1982 and has overseen a strong period of growth, even through the recession. Swaffield has been involved in The Mersey Partnership since its inception and was a founder board member of Professional Liverpool and is also a board member of the Liverpool Commercial District Partnership and of Merseyside Youth Association.

Alistair Sunderland / Partner / Austin-Smith:Lord / Architecture / Liverpool and Manchester. Chairs the NWDA-backed Places Matter advisory group aimed at raising design standards in the region. Joined Austin-Smith:Lord in 1974 and has led design teams on numerous large scale commercial and public sector developments, including the RIBA award-winning Avril Robarts Learning Resource Centre at Liverpool John Moores University, the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford and the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester.

Phil Wakefield / Managing Director / Carillion Building North & Scotland / Construction / Daresbury. Carillion remains one of the half-dozen companies big enough to take on the £50m-plus jobs, illustrated by the £63m 235,000 sq ft development of the Greater Manchester Police's new HQ in east Manchester, now on site. Other projects have included One First Street and Piccadilly Place in Manchester for Ask (qv) and Argent (qv) respectively.

Mike Walker / Director and Head of Office / Colliers CRE / Surveying and Consultancy / Manchester. Set up the Fletcher King office in Manchester in 2003 when he returned to his native North West after a long spell in London with Mills & Wood. Fletcher King was acquired by Colliers CRE in October 2004. The office now employs 45 staff and has worked for Easter Developments, Segro, L'Oréal UK, Euro Car Parts, Morley, Standard Life, Royal London Asset Management, Gazeley, Lancashire County Council and IKEA.

Stuart Wall / Owner / Opal Property Group / Student Accommodation / Manchester. Founded what is now the UK's largest student accommodation provider in 1982. Current assets are believed to have topped £1bn this year. A £440m refinancing deal with the RBS fell away in 2007 but the company still appears to have ridden the recession quite comfortably and says it is targeting a growth rate of 15% pa over the next five years. Wall owns 100% of the equity. Ocon Construction, Wall's design-and-build subsidiary, is also expanding rapidly and enjoys a turnover above £100m. Ocon complements Opal's strength's in the student market.

Jonathan Walsh / Managing Director / MEPC Birchwood Park / Office Development / Birchwood, Warrington. Began his career at Hillier Parker in London as a graduate trainee in 1990 and qualified as a chartered surveyor in 1993. Spent several years at Lambert Smith Hampton and King Sturge in Manchester in office agency departments. Joined Birchwood Park as a director in its early stages in 1999 and has let 700,000 sq ft in ten years on his way to becoming managing director of the estate. Joined the main board of developer MEPC in January 2009. MEPC Birchwood Park boasts over 145 companies including, Amec, Atkins, Electricity North West, Rolls-Royce and Serco. It is home to a workforce of over 4,200 and at 123 acres is Warrington's corporate hub.

Anita Weightman / Partner and Head of Real Estate / DLA Piper / Law / Manchester. Anita is responsible for a team of 50 lawyers, including specialists in planning, construction and real estate litigation. Her specialisms include acting for developers and government agencies on the letting and development brownfield sites and handling investments for institutional clients and property companies. Anita regularly leads multi-disciplinary teams on large-scale investment portfolio acquisitions and disposals. Her transactional work is mainly for the leisure sector where she acts for a number of leisure operators and is the sole real estate adviser to Vue Entertainment, one of the largest cinema operators in the UK.

Aubrey Weiss / Investor / Various companies / Salford. An Orthodox Jew who often partners with other local Jewish investors such as the Lebrecht family. Weiss is an active buyer of large assets from town centre sites to shopping centres. He is less known on the news pages, apart from for his involvement in the Everton FC and Tesco ambitions in Kirkby. Weiss assembled a large holding in Kirkby town centre, partly through a deal with St Modwen in 2005. Later sold his land to Tesco for the supermarket and stadium project which was rejected recently by ministers.

Gary Whittle / Executive Director / Broadway Malyan Regional UK / Architecture / Manchester. Whittle has responsibility for the international architectural firm's regional offices including Liverpool, Birmingham and Edinburgh. Has been with the practice for over 25 years, primarily in London before being sent north in 1997 to open a Manchester operation. The blue chip client base includes Prudential, La Salle Investment, Peel, Redrow and an increasing public sector portfolio including Bolton at Home and Birmingham City Council. New projects this year include the 228,000 sq ft Pall Mall tower in Liverpool, where its £135m Mann Island development is well underway. Matt Brook, head of the Liverpool office, was the firm's youngest ever director.

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►Place 100, 2009: 31 to 100 A-E

►Place 100, 2009: 31 to 100 F-L