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November 8, 2022

Interview: Tony Gibbon On Selling Up, The Next Downturn And His Journey To The Top In Agency

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There are many different paths to the top of the global property advisory world, but perhaps few as unique as that taken by Tony Gibbon.

He left school at 15 and worked his way up from the very bottom, running errands for a London pension fund and soaking up knowledge as he went, before becoming an agent and setting up his own firm, BH2.

Tony Gibbon On Selling Up, The Next Downturn And His Journey To The Top In Agency

With that firm, he stole a march on global rivals by securing some of the world’s largest investors like Brookfield and Tishman Speyer as clients, putting together complex, multibillion-pound deals and showing that niche firms could still compete with the…

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