We speak to Alisa Zotimova, the Russian-born founder of AZ Real Estate, a boutique London-based consultancy that advises overseas buyers on UK property investments, from trophy homes to offices. When and how did you set up the business? Following a decade at big blue chip property companies including JLL and Cushman & Wakefield I decided to ‘go it alone’ in 2012. I was able to use my own...

£3.5M INJECTION FOR CAMBRIDGE SCHEMES Property consultancy AZ Real Estate has secured more than £3.5m for a number of residential and commercial property developments in Cambridge. The biggest deal is a £1.5m equity injection for a serviced apartment scheme 400 metres from the Cambridge Biomedical Campus. The project, led by GCR Camprop, will provide 57 apartments over three buildings. Funds have also...

  Stepping Away From Blue Chip Firms — Lessons From My Journey Following a decade at big blue chip property companies including JLL and Cushman & Wakefield I decided to ‘go it alone", leaving behind a successful career to start my own boutique venture — AZ Real Estate. We advise buyers, primarily Russians, where to invest their money in UK property. I set up the business in 2012 using my own...

Architectural Digest published an article about our project in collaboration with Natalia Maslova. Natalia Maslova and her collegues from 3L Decor worked together with AZ Real Estate to create an eye-catching, easy-to-remember flat in London. On its 50 sqm there are a living room with open kitchen, bedroom and bathroom. It took the designer one month to draw and finalize the project.         ...

  Foreign buyers have invested £144.3 billion in London commercial property over the past two decades and are still buying despite Brexit, new research showed on Wednesday. Agent CBRE revealed its office property data as industry experts insisted Brexit will not have a “material impact” on future appetite to spend here. The firm said overseas investment into central London has increased...

  AZ Real Estate, the London and Moscow based real estate consultancy, has brokered a £4m investment in the Hilton Hotel, Manchester Airport, on behalf of a private overseas equity investor. The £4m equity is part of a wider pool of overseas investment into the hotel, with the fund management process being overseen by Regency Project Management. Scheduled to open in 2021 and with a GDV of £116m,...

Alisa Zotimova, Director of AZ Real Estate, about Art Masters Summit, and some parallels between the world of art and the world of property. I was delighted to speak recently at the inaugural Art Masters Summit, which ran alongside the world renowned Frieze Art Fair in London. The theme was ‘disruption’, looking at challenges, opportunities and changes within today’s art market. From a property...

  Russian magazine "Digest Nedvizhimosti" (Real Estate Digest) has asked our director Alisa Zotimova to comment on how the "smart" technologies are used in British homes. One of the major problems is that technologies become outdated too fast nowadays, it means that "smart" homes owners will have to update them all the time. Another issue is that not all the technologies are userfriendly if the users...

  Alisa Zotimova, our director, comments on the live of pensioners in London for a large Russian media group RBC (RosBusinessConsulting): "Here pensioners and the city center are far from being conflicting notions. Many retired people live in the center of London. In general a big part of property owners in the UK are adults older than 50-55". Read the full article (in...

Money restrictions and tax changes have impacted the prime property market Boris Johnson has used some contentious turns of phrase. Aside from the extraordinarily witless remarks he made about burkas, he once compared female volleyball players in the 2012 Olympics to “glistening wet otters frolicking”. But his claim in 2014 that London was “to the billionaire as the jungles of Sumatra are to the...