Knight Frank - a well established real estate company founded in 1896 and headquartered in London, has now bonded with South African commercial property service firm, Galetti – and local residential sector company, Anne Porter.
Knight Frank is known to be one of the oldest property groups in the world. Currently it employs over 13,700 professionals across 370 offices of which 68 offices are in the UK, 78 offices are in Continental Europe, 53 offices in Asia Pacific, 154 offices in the America and 23 offices in Africa and the Middle East. With this new partnership Galetti Knight Frank will serve its collective clients’ commercial property needs across SA.
As per an announcement by Knight Frank, they have decided to move this time towards the local residential sector and increase its brand scope. The co-founder Tony Galetti says that this relationship will enable us to serve the local landlords in a more better way as it will generate instructions from larger corporate holders or residents.
According to Lanice Steward “There are always more and more benefits when you partner with the world’s most established real estate brands. Factors like international network, credibility, high level communication platform lead to increased property selection and a variance can be seen among the buyers internationally.“
Peter Welborn- a Knight Frank Partner says, “We chose Galetti because they are passionate for their work and practices unique approach to help the clients in achieving their business and personal goals. This will enable us to move further a step ahead in order to exceed our clients expectations. We are now able to meet our clients property requirements on both the levels i.e. locally and internationally and in terms of commercial, residential, research and valuations.”
The chairman of Knight Frank said, “ The African continent plays a key role in our global expansion. With an infrastructure of 19 offices and over 500 people, puts Knight Frank in a unique position to help occupiers, investors, and developers throughout the continent.”
Susan Turner- the Director of Knight Frank added that the “The African property market has always been allocated for presenting number of opportunities.” Knight Frank with its extended team across eight major countries in Africa is now all set for a ruling position in African market.
