James Grimes

James is one of the UK’s top agency negotiators in the pub sector and a Fellow of the Association of Valuers of Licensed Properties. He is a formidable dealmaker, completing sales and acquisitions worth many hundreds of millions of pounds over the first decade of the century and working with a wide network of contacts across the industry.

Key clients include Capital Pub Company, Enterprise Inns, Fullers, Greene King, Mitchells & Butlers and Punch. He has acquired and disposed of many trophy pubs, dealt with many restaurants on sale, rental, franchise and valuation, even meeting the occasional star chef in the process – he sold Heston Blumental his gastropub in Bray.

He is also a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and chairman of the Restaurant Property Advisors Society, a specialist body of restaurant property agents who provide up-to-the-moment advice to restaurant owners and occupiers.

James took a degree in urban estate management at Central London Polytechnic (now Westminster University), then spent a decade with a firm of hotel and licensed property specialists, beginning in London before heading up a new regional office. As associate director, he managed the London sales division and gained further experience in consultancy.

James is a dedicated Seagull – a supporter of Brighton and Hove Albion football club – and looks forward to the success of the team at their new stadium.

James Grimes
jgrimes@agg.uk.com