Hari Hirani
B. Sc [Hons], FRICS, IRRV, MPVAI
Position:
Director, Valuation, Surveys & Professional Services
Languages:
English, Hindi, Gujarati, Urdu, Punjabi, Swahili
Contact Details:
Professional Qualifications
- Honours Degree in Urban Land Economics (1976)
- Associate of The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (1977)
- Fellow of the The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (1989)
- Fellow of The Incorporated Society of Valuers and Auctioneers (which merged with The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in 1999)
- Corporate Member of The Institute of Rating Revenues and Valuers (2000)
- Member of The Institute of Rent Officers & Rental Valuers (1996) (which merged with The Chartered Institute of Housing in February 1999)
- Member of The Society of Expert Witnesses (2000)
- Member of the Practising Valuers Association (India) (2007)
- High Court of London (Chancery Division) Appointed Receiver (2001)
Overview & Summary
Harilal Hirani leads a multi-disciplinary practice of around 50 Chartered Valuers & Building Surveyors. He doesn’t believe in the theory that “Only 3 things happen without leadership – friction, confusion and under-performance. Everything else requires leadership”. He provides understanding and visionary direction to enable ALL staff to positively broaden their experience, add to their expertise to achieve their goals; and impart the philosophy of giving only “reliable, researched, reasoned & responsible advice “.
He has been a practicing surveyor since 1976 having a wide range of experience in Capital & Rental Valuations of residential, commercial, industrial, hotel, religious & community buildings, care & nursing homes, public houses, leisure properties, development projects, investment portfolios and most other disciplines of professional work.
He regularly gives evidence in various Courts, Statutory Tribunals, Public & Government Committees & Panels on behalf of various clients, financial and corporate institutions and public bodies and Charity & Social Organisations. He also acts as an Arbitrator & Expert. As a Jointly Appointed Expert he has recently valued (at £198 million) a 105 Property Portfolio for the High Court, London. He has an analytical & inquisitive mind & a patient positive reasoned approach, which has resulted immensely in assisting numerous litigating & aggrieved parties to conclude beneficially, financially and satisfactorily.
He regularly lectures on the Property Market [to Bank Managers, Underwriters & High Value Clients of Lending Institutions]. He has undertaken Presentations in China [Beijing, Shanghai & Chengdu], Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and India on Valuations & The UK Property Market.
His Expert advice has related to Commercial, Industrial & Residential Valuations spanning – Surveyors, Solicitors & Accountants negligence, matrimonial disputes, retrospective values, encroachment land loss, overage & underage clauses, compensation for breaches of & release from restrictive or binding land covenants, ransom strip values, planning compliance failure, over-development compensation and business partnership disputes & asset divisions.
Career
2024– to date
Anderson, Wilde & Harris – Director, Valuation, Surveys & Professional Services
Leading a multi-disciplinary 55 staff & 4 office practice of Chartered Valuation & Building Surveyors based in [Holborn] London, with representation throughout the UK and overseas. Our clients are Banks, Mortgage Lenders, Government Departments, Local Authorities, Housing Associations, National Companies, Charities, Solicitors, Accountants & purchasers, investors, owners & occupiers; indeed spanning the full breadth of property players – from international institutions to corporate and private individuals.
We deal with Valuations of all types of residential, commercial, industrial & mixed-use properties, development sites, Hotels, Public Houses, Nursing/Care Homes, Petrol Stations, Medical Premises, Religious & Social Institutions, Educational & Leisure Properties and Operating Business Goodwill Establishments.
Our Building Surveyors advice on project management, party walls, rights to light, Building Regulations & planning permission, defect analysis & Insurance Claims and undertake Building Surveys, Schedules of Dilapidations & Condition and provide Home Buyer Reports.
1987 - 2003
Private Practice
A niche multi office-practice undertaking Private & Building Society / Bank valuations of residential, commercial, industrial and office premises, and building surveys, Home Buyers Reports, Landlord and Tenant matters (rent reviews, schedules of dilapidations / conditions).
1986 - 1988
West Tech Plc Group – Property Director
Purchase, Management, Development & Sale of commercial, office, hotel, residential and leisure properties within London and the South East of England.
1976 - 1986
Greater London Council – Team Leader
Appointed a Team Leader in 1983 (the youngest ever ) to lead a large multi-disciplinary team responsible for 18 of the 32 London Boroughs. Undertaking purchases, disposals sales, and management of land and commercial, residential & industrial properties [required or owned for various Council Schemes], both by Agreement & Under Compulsory Purchase Powers.
Life's Outlook
An avid traveler, having visited 72 countries to date, he believes that:
- “Not all those who wander are lost” [J.R.Tolkien]. Travel broadens and educates the mind; making one humble and appreciative of the “good life” one leads. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveller only who is foreign” [Robert Louis Stevenson].
- Travel gives him time to ‘take stock and recharge the faculties”. In the poetic words of William Davies “A poor life this is if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare”.
