Tom Drake

Drake & Partners are delighted to confirm the appointment of Gary Viccars to our Building Surveying team. Gary joins from CS2 where he was previously a Director in their Milton Keynes office. Gary is a RICS accredited Chartered Surveyor. Gary has 20 years experience working within the commercial property and building surveying industry. Gary moved […]

Drake & Partners are delighted to sponsor the Rob Keogh v Courtney Lawes Testimonial T20 match that was held at Northamptonshire’s County Ground. Drake & Partners were shirt sleeve sponsors for both sides, with the event helping to raise money for both players chosen charities during their testimonial years. In particular the event was in

Drake & Partners were invited to attend the Northampton School for Boys future apprenticeship evening last week. Local employers from around the area attended to present and answer questions to sixth form students and their parents, who are interested in apprenticeship opportunities when they finish school. From Drake & Partners, Apprentice Surveyor Ollie Holliday and

Congratulations to our Apprentice Surveyor Ollie Holliday who won the Alliance Cup with his rugby side Northampton Old Scouts at Franklins Gardens last week Ollie and Old Scouts have had quite a week, reaching the final of the national Papa Johns Cup at Twickenham, before then securing the Northamptonshire Alliance Cup title for the second

On Wednesday 24th April, members of the East Midlands and West Midlands Industrial Agents Society took part in their annual Golf Day, competing for the coveted ‘Golden Tri Cup’. This was the events 3rd year and goes from strength to strength with even more agents in attendance, and the result the closest in its recent

Drake & Partners were delighted to be Match Ball Sponsors in Northampton Towns League 1 game against Derby County last week. We are only too pleased to provide support for the Cobblers and this follows recent and ongoing sponsorship at both Northampton Saints and Northamptonshire CCC. We are very lucky to have the sporting clubs

Despite the slight uncertainty in the economy over the last 18-24 months, those developers in the industrial and warehouse sector that have committed to speculatively develop new schemes have been rewarded. The cost of construction has reached record levels over the last 12 months but we are starting to see this taper off. In addition,

Drake & Partners are pleased to confirm the continued expansion of their surveying team with the addition of Ollie Holliday, who is joining as an Apprentice Surveyor. Ollie joins having completed a level 3 BTEC at Northampton School for Boys, where he also captained their 1st XV rugby team and also represented Northampton Saints Academy.

We were delighted to join other local agents during the run up to Christmas to catch up on the year gone by. It was agreed by all that 2023 had been extremely challenging with the wider economy and yet more unexpected factors causing uncertainty for businesses, however despite all this the regional market had remained

We were delighted to sponsor and take part in Northampton Saints recent match against the Barbarians. In what has now become an annual fixture, Northampton Saints hosted a travelling Barbarians team that was this year made up largely of Australian and Japanese internationals who are on standby for the current Rugby World Cup being played

Drake & Partners were delighted to host an excellent working lunch at Northants CCC, along with 4 Front Construction. The guests were also able to support Northants in the One Day Cup match against Worcestershire. As well as Drake & Partners and 4 Front, the event was attended by Padmanor Investments, Cinch Storage, Kirkby Diamond,

We were privileged to attend a recent charity event in aid of Get A-Head which has been set up to help fight all forms of head and neck disease, by funding research, education & equipment and have so far raised more than £10million. Tom Drake and Jonny Grove from Drake & Partners joined developers Prologis