About Us

CPRA are experts in business rates, rent reviews and capital allowances.

We employ some of the country’s most experienced and talented chartered surveyors who tirelessly endeavour to minimise our client’s costs, including business rates, rent and corporation tax. We act for some of the world’s most recognised companies, alongside representing thousands of U.K. small businesses.

Headquartered in London with staff operating in every region of the country we provide rating, lease advisory, capital allowances, agency, valuation, and other services to owners and occupiers of commercial property in England, Wales and Scotland.

Key Contacts

David Langley

David Langley

Director
Thaiba Rashid

Thaiba Rashid

Operations Manager
Robin Foulds

Robin Foulds

Senior Surveyor
James Burkitt

James Burkitt

Senior Surveyor

Globally we provide acquisition, disposal and project finance services, working with developers, start-ups, private and institutional investors, multinationals and sovereign wealth funds. We have advised on infrastructure and real estate development projects costing several billions. Our Middle East offices focus on project management, cross-border investment and capital markets within the EMEA region.

We pride ourselves on delivering fantastic customer service, offering sound professional advice and delivering exceptional savings for our clients. Our fees are fair, transparent and performance based.

Our RICS chartered surveyors, data scientists and qualified tax advisors are experts in their chosen fields and our whole team have previously worked for the world’s biggest real estate firms. We enjoy excellent working relationships and partnerships with other agents and the Valuation Office Agency (VOA), HMRC and other agencies.

Our U.K. team specialises in hotel, pub, leisure, retail, office and industrial valuations. We currently act for thousands of occupiers, landlords and developers nationally. The CPRA team achieves job satisfaction by guiding our clients through the complexities of owning and occupying commercial real estate. We have saved our clients tens of millions of pounds and as we continue to grow we will endeavour to help even more businesses succeed, especially in uncertain economic times. 

If you would like to know more about our services, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please feel free to contact our team to discuss your requirements.

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Operations Team

David Langley

Director

David is our firm’s director and is based in London. With a background in real estate, business and investment, he founded CPRA after working for some of the world’s biggest real estate consultancies. David acts as the most senior point of contact for CPRA’s thousands of valued clients and manages our national team of chartered surveyors. In his spare timeDavid enjoys hiking, cycling, skiing, cooking, D.I.Y, theatre, and wine and whisky tasting.

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Thaiba Rashid

Operations Manager

Thaiba is our operations and client manager for the national business rates team. After completing a BA Hons in Business Management she decided to embark on a career in marketing, operations and CRM management within real estate. Thaiba maintains CPRA’s commercial property database and oversees our CRM and client data handling processes. In her spare time, Thaiba enjoys cooking, true crime documentaries puzzles, swimming, pilates and studying languages. Thaiba is also passionate about supporting charities including Cancer Research, helping the homeless and a local childrens’ hospital.

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Robin Foulds

Senior Surveyor

Robin is a Senior Surveyor in our national business rates team. With a background in IT and real estate, Robin has been a specialist rating surveyor for over ten years. Robin covers London and the South East of England and assists ourDirector and Consultant Surveyors with high value and complex cases. In his spare time, Robin enjoys bouldering, mountain biking, international cinema and documentaries and creating content for his own YouTube series.

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James Burkitt

Senior Surveyor

James is a Senior Surveyor in our national business rates team. James completed a BA (Hons) in Music before subscribing to the long-standing Burkitt family tradition and attaining an MSc in Real Estate to become a chartered surveyor. James provides business rates advice to some of the UK’s biggest companies occupying offices, warehouses and factories. Before joining CPRA James held the role of Lead Valuer within the Specialists Industrial Unit of the Valuation Office Agency. James covers the Midlands,Yorkshire, Wales and the North West. In his spare time, James, who confesses to being a “Rating Geek” follows the most recent commercial property news, data and case law, keeping CPRA at the forefront of any changes to business rates taxation.

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