This month saw a quartet of graduate surveyors from Shepherd pass their final Assessment of Professional Competence (APC) and be elevated to MRICS status.

A clear demonstration of Shepherd’s confidence in the outlook for Scotland’s property sector, the four surveyors are located throughout the firm’s recently expanded network of offices and encompass both commercial and residential surveyors.

Steve Barnett, partner in Shepherd’s Glasgow office, said, “These four graduate surveyors are the end product of our continuous programme of investing in graduate surveyors, training them and putting them through their professional qualifications.

“This, together with the fact that we have opened two more offices in Scotland within the past few months – at Forfar and Dumbarton – and some key new appointments provides mounting evidence of a resurgence in the market.”

The four graduate surveyors at Shepherd who passed their final APCs were commercial surveyors Sandy Falconer, based in Stirling, and Alasdair Holwill, Aberdeen, and residential surveyors John Broadley, Aberdeen and Stewart Lewis, Coatbridge.

Shepherd has a well-established programme of investment in training new graduate surveyors. As well as partner Adrian Stott’s additional roles as assessor, chairman of assessors and auditor of assessors with overall responsibility for APC training, fellow Shepherd associate William Laidlaw and partner Ewen Sparks also act as assessors, demonstrating the firm’s unparalleled commitment to the APC process and ability to provide candidates with all the information, advice and assistance they need to help them through their APCs.

For further information please contact Steve Barnett at Shepherd tel 0141 331 2807