The practice welcomes a total of 14 new partners, comprising eight from within the ranks of Shepherd Chartered Surveyors, four from the recent merger with Whyte & Barrie and a further two from sister company, London-based Shepherd Property Consultancy, which is being brought under the aegis of the surveying practice.

Reflecting recent growth and delivering on succession planning, the eight promotions across its residential and commercial operations in Scotland are commercial property management partner Alan Berry and a magnificent seven residential partners: Kieran Bonner (Stirling); Antony Burns (Glasgow Southside); Angus Carruthers (Montrose); Luke Doyle (Ayr); Michael McDade (Greenock); Steven Mackie (Dunfermline) and Norman Robb (Hamilton).

Commenting on the promotions, Ian Fergusson, Shepherd’s senior partner, said: “These well-deserved promotions across the various departments highlight the strength and depth of services we can offer across the national branch network and reflect the success of our strategy to train and nurture talent in-house, harnessing the power of the next generation of surveyors as we continue our planned programme of growth and diversification.

“All our newly promoted surveyors richly deserve their step up, and all have been trained in-house, and I look forward to seeing their careers flourish as they develop new skills within their enhanced roles.”

The four new partners following the merger with Whyte & Barrie are John Leighton, Alan Crooks, Andrew MacFarlane and Craig Wilson, who will share key responsibility of driving forward the growth and expansion of the merged businesses within the Greater Glasgow and Lanarkshire regions.

“Furthermore, as we merge in Shepherd Property Consultants into Shepherd Chartered Surveyors, we welcome Tom Higgins and Krishan Patel as partners, both share a wealth of experience within commercial property management from their base in London and this forms part of our strategic growth plan for unified services across the UK,” said Fergusson.

“I’m delighted to announce these promotions based on the strategy I set out when assuming  the role of senior partner a year ago as a first stage in an ambitious five-year growth plan.”