Niall Blair

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Niall Blair

Senior Land Agent, MRICS
Rural Land Management
Tel: 01738 621 121

About: Niall is an experienced RICS Chartered Surveyor working across Perthshire and Angus advising on all aspects of estate and farm management. Niall Joined Bell Ingram in 2023 and has a background in mineral, commercial and rural estate management. In addition to working at Bell Ingram Niall manages his own upland farming business in the Angus Glens.

Interests: Rural Estate Management, Agricultural Management, Valuations.

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Isla Shaw

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Isla Shaw

Senior Associate, MRICS
Rural Land Management
Tel: 01738 621 121

About: Isla is a RICS Chartered Surveyor and Registered Valuer working across Scotland advising on all aspects of estate and farm management. In addition, Isla can undertake a range of rural valuations for a variety of purposes as a Registered Valuer. Isla joined Bell Ingram in 2023 and is a graduate of SRUC in Edinburgh with an Honours Degree in Rural Business Management. She has a keen interest is Agriculture from growing up on the family beef and sheep farm in Fife.

Interests: Rural Land Management, Valuations, MRICS Registered Valuer.

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Ben Hewlett

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Ben Hewlett

Land Agent
Utilities & Renewables
Tel: 01606 523 030

About: Ben is an experienced Land Agent working across Northern England advising on all aspects of rural land management to projects in the energy and water sectors. Ben joined Bell Ingram in 2018 and holds a Bachelor of Science (BSc) Environmental Management.

Interests: Rural Land Management, Pipelines and Utilities, Renewables.

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Bill Crank

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Bill Crank

Land Agent, AssocRICS
Utilities & Renewables
Tel: 01606 523 030

About: Bill is an experienced Land Agent working across Northern England with a focus on the rural property sector covering various aspects of estate and property management, utilities and agriculture.

Interests: Rural Land Management, Pipelines & Utilities

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Catherine Blair

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Catherine Blair

Graduate Surveyor
Utilities & Renewables
Tel: 01738 621 121

About: Catherine is a graduate rural surveyor with a focus on clients within the utility industries specialising in land referencing, negotiation of wayleaves, servitudes, compensation and also acquisition of land and access rights. She joined Bell Ingram in Spring 2023 and is a graduate of SRUC with a BA (Hons) in Rural Business Management.

Interests: Pipelines & Utilities, Renewables, Telecommunications, GIS Mapping.

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Rob Whitson

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Rob Whitson

Partner, MRICS
Rural Land Management
Tel: 01463 717 799

About: Rob is Bell Ingram’s partner in charge of the Beauly office. He specialises in the management of rural properties for a range of private clients across the Highlands. This has included a number of significant and high profile sporting estates.

For Land Management clients, Rob has worked on the negotiation of purchase/sale, servitude rights and renewable energy developments. He provides specialist management advice over a wide range of sporting estates particularly in relation to red deer stalking and salmon fisheries.

Rob has enjoyed a long involvement with a number of district salmon fishery boards across the Highlands, and is a trustee of the Cromarty Firth Fishery Trust. He is Chair of the Highland Region for Scottish Land & Estates and also leads on valuations of commercial and rural property throughout Scotland in accordance with the RICS appraisal and valuation standards.

Interests: Private Estate Management, Rural Land Management, Sporting Management, Valuations.

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Sarah Tyson

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Sarah Tyson

Partner, FRICS FAAV
Rural Land Management
Tel: 01738 621 121

About: Sarah is an experienced rural property surveyor dealing with all types of valuations, renewable energy, estate management and property consultancy across Scotland . She is an Appointed Agent and Valuer for the Agricultural Mortgage Corporation providing competitive finance for farmers and landowners.

Interests: AMC Services, Renewable Energy, Rural Land Management, Valuations, FRICS FAAV Registered Valuer.

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Mike Thompson

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Mike Thompson

Partner
Rural Land Management
Tel: 01845 522 095

About: Specialising in Estate and Sporting Management, rental negotiation, estate and farm budgeting, staff management, farm and estate valuation and purchase.

Interests: Corporate Estate Management, Private Estate Management, Rural Land Management, MRICS Registered Valuer

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Andrew Thompson

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Andrew Thompson

Senior Associate
Utilities & Renewables Rural Land Management
Tel: 01539 896 101

About: Andrew, a qualified Rural Chartered Surveyor and RICS Registered Valuer, opened the Ambleside Office in 2017 to facilitate the delivery of a number of utility and land management focussed projects across Cumbria and North Lancashire. Andrew is keen to maximise the full suite of professional services that Bell Ingram can offer, through its Ambleside staff andoOffice.

Interests: Utilities, Private Estate Management, Rural Land Management, MRICS Registered Valuer

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Malcolm Taylor

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Malcolm Taylor

Senior Partner, FRICS ACIArb
Rural Land Management
Tel: 01307 462 516

About: Malcolm is Bell Ingram’s Senior Partner and heads up the company’s Forfar office, where he specialises in farm and estate management, including the provision of agricultural rental advice and acting as an expert witness. He is the immediate past chairman of the RICS in Scotland and remains actively involved with the Institution. Malcolm is also head of Lettings within Bell Ingram.

Interests: AMC Agent, Corporate Estate Management, Rural Land Management, SRDP Applications, FRICS Registered Valuer.

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Borzo Taheri

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Borzo Taheri

Associate, MRICS
Utilities & Renewables
Tel: 01606 523 030

About: Borzo is a RICS chartered surveyor, working across the North of England with a focus on all aspects of rural land management for a large spectrum of clients within the utilities and renewables sector. He joined Bell Ingram in 2017 as a land agent and has an MSc in Rural Estate and Land Management from Harper Adams University.

Interests: Rural Land Management, Pipelines and Utilities

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James Petty

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James Petty

Partner, MRICS
Rural Land Management
Tel: 01224 621 300

About: James is the Partner in charge of Bell Ingram’s Aberdeen office and is an experienced rural surveyor dealing with all types of valuations, utilities and pipelines, rural land management, estate agency, and has experience of compulsory purchase work including the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route.

He is an MRICS Registered Valuer and has provided Red Book valuations for a range of property types including mixed estates to traditional owner-occupied farms, residential, access rights and development plots.

James has experience of day-to-day management of low ground estate properties including let farms, seasonal land lets and residential property letting. James has also worked with major utility companies on their onshore and offshore wind farm operations and provided land agency services to clients such as Siemens, SSE and SGN.

Interests: MRICS Registered Valuer, Agent and Valuer for the Agricultural Mortgage Corporation Pipelines & Utilities, Rural Land Management, Valuations, Estate Agency.

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