Spire Property Management appoints new MD

Sean Paul, who has a B.Sc in Quantity Surveying from the University of Cape Town, brings with him extensive experience in project, asset, human resources and property management. He joins Spire after nine years at Pyramid Property Management. Prior to that he was at Old Mutual Field Services Properties for seven years and also spent eight years at the Cape Town City Council.

"Spire's strategy continues to see the company working towards being the preferred niche property manager by the listed sector, corporate property owners and private clients. Because of this, the company has continued to grow year on year," says Paul.

Spire recently secured the management contract for all of the buildings within the Tower Property Fund portfolio. Spire also manages the entire portfolio of Pick 'n Pay owned retail properties, on a national basis as well as portfolio of over R4-billion for private clients.

The organisations flat staff structure, where senior property managers, supported by dedicated property administrators, attend to the day to day financial, leasing and maintenance needs of a particular property portfolio has proved successful. Spire prides itself on strong levels of administration with continual focus on efficiency and greening principles.

"Spire's success is a result of a strong focus on personal relationships which exist between the property managers and the individual property owners," says Paul. "We plan to continue to grow the business by building on these principles, whilst at the same time delivering the expected returns for each individual property investment."

"Going forward we intend to focus on the growth of our portfolios in both Gauteng and Kwazulu-Natal where we have established and successful regional offices. However we do not intend becoming a large, mass property management company - one that is impersonal and hard to reach - but rather Spire chooses to ensure that our client base is serviced on a one-on-one basis with a dedicated management team assigned to each client so that there remains one point of call at all times."

"Spire continues to be inspired by property and I and my team are looking forward to working with our clients to retain and add value to their asset bases," concludes Sean.