CBRE has made a series of promotions among its team in Birmingham. Fourteen staff are now in new roles including seven at senior level. Anne Walsh, Richard Connolly and Richard Brown have been promoted to senior director while Raj Bains (operational real estate), Ross Jones (building consultancy) and Luke Thacker (industrial and logistics) have made the step up to director.

Ms Walsh joined the agency's hotel advisory team in 2015, with a focus on the regional UK hotel sector. She advises private and public sector clients on all stages of a hotel's lifecycle, from inception through to trading. Mr. Connolly joined the valuation team in 2006, specialising in commercial property valuations for a range of clients, including major banks and lenders, institutional funds and property companies.

Mr. Brown is a member of the national planning and development team, based in Birmingham. He has worked in planning for more than 20 years, both in the public and private sectors, with a particular specialism in complex infrastructure projects and large-scale, city centre regeneration. In addition to the senior promotions, Beth Pywell and Dan White have been promoted to associate director, Louise Peart and Toni Sohpal to senior surveyor, Sam Shaw and Kim Lewis to surveyor and Melissa Marton to personal assistant.

Finally, head of the Birmingham office Will Ventham has been made executive director. CBRE, at all levels of the career spectrum, from surveyors to senior directors.