Supporting Malcolm for 2010-11 as vice-chairman is David Peck, Managing Director of Buccleuch Property. Malcolm's tenure formally begins this evening at a reception held at Edinburgh's Caledonian Hilton Hotel, to be addressed by Jim Mackinnon the Chief Planning Officer for Scotland and attended by over 190 industry and public sector delegates from across Scotland.
Previously serving as vice chairman of the SPF, Malcolm joined SWIP in 2007 and is responsible for overseeing SWIP's portfolio of commercial property assets across the UK, Europe and North America.
He has over 35 years of experience working in the real estate industry. Previously he was director and head of DTZ Investment Management, where he was responsible for business development in the UK and in international markets. He was also a founding partner of Jones Land Wotton Fund Management, and UK managing director of LaSalle Investment Management. In 2002, he co-founded fountain Capital Partners, a pan-European real estate investment manager and adviser. Malcolm qualified as a Chartered Surveyor in 1976.
Malcolm Naish commented: "Working in Edinburgh for a Scottish-based financial institution, it is a great personal pleasure to become chairman of the Scottish Property Federation and to follow in the successful steps of Phil Miller, who has strongly led the interests of the Scottish property industry with all key stakeholders these past twelve months.
"Our industry's property markets remain fragile. We are also seeing an increasingly polarised market in the UK between London and the rest of the UK. It is important for Scotland that we encourage investment and development where it is appropriate and as it emerges, or else we risk losing what has become a shrinking pot of opportunity for sustaining jobs and prosperity.
"I intend to pick up therefore where I think Phil leaves us, with a single strong message to governments both in Edinburgh and in London: you must do all that you can to create economic growth, for without it neither the interests of the private sector or the government itself can be sustained."
