7 October 2015, Carter Jonas has appointed Darren Yates as its new Head of Research, where he will help to develop its consulting capability.

Darren was formally a partner at Knight Frank where he worked as Head of Global Capital Markets Research. Prior to this, Darren was an associate at Cushman and Wakefield and a research analyst at Management Horizons Europe.

Darren has over 20 years of specialist research experience. He brings with him a combination of global knowledge, consulting and market expertise and throughout his career has worked for a wide range of private and public sector clients.

Mark Granger, Chief Executive, Carter Jonas said: “Darren is a leading industry figure and highly respected in the real estate community. His experience and broad market understanding enables us to continue to add significant value to clients, whilst ensuring that we lead the debate on industry issues across the commercial, planning, residential and rural sectors.

“Delivering in-depth research to clients is vital to our business and Catherine Penman, our former Head of Research, has played an integral part in this. Whilst Catherine has chosen to focus on our rural division, Darren now assumes the mantle and we welcome him to our team.”