Sarah is an experienced valuer with a career spanning over 21 years, most of which has been in the valuation team at Savills (after four years in the retail investment team). She provides valuation advice for a variety of purposes including dispute resolution, loan security, taxation, internal purposes and Charities Act. She specialises in valuing commercial and development properties.
Sarah is also an RICS Registered Valuer and an RICS Registered Expert Witness with circa 15 years’ experience providing expert valuation advice. She has experience working on numerous complex, multi-faceted and often high-profile disputes. Her contributions have included: her participation in legal meetings / conferences, mediations and without prejudice expert meetings; the preparation of CPR and FPR compliant court reports; giving evidence to the court orally (High Court in March 2010, March 2016 and March 2023 and Nottingham County Court in October 2023); and experience as both an expert witness and a single joint expert witness.
She has had experience providing expert valuation advice in the context of the following types of dispute:
Agency misrepresentation;
Breaches of lease clauses;
Building services defects;
Construction defects;
CPO proceedings;
Financial remedy proceedings;
Loss of opportunity;
Mis-sold insurance;
Option price / profit share / overage assessments;
Ownership changes;
Restrictive covenants;
Restrictive lease clauses;
Rights of light;
Sale at an undervalue;
Section 18 valuations
Solicitor's negligence;
Specific performance of contracts; and
Surveyor's negligence.
Internal Responsibilities
Sarah is currently joint head of Savills' internal expert witness steering group. Over the course of 2010-2013, she was the valuation best practice committee representative for Savills’ UK commercial valuation division.
Education, Qualifications and Affiliations
RICS Registered Expert Witness - May 2022;
RICS Expert Witness Certificate - January 2022;
RICS Registered Valuer - 2010 onwards;
Member RICS - 2004 onwards;
MA Property Valuation and Law, City University – 2004; and
MA Geography, Downing College, University of Cambridge – 2002.
