Knight Frank bolsters shopping center portfolio with new appointment

Ben Hill has been appointed to partner in Knight Frank’s commercial property asset management team in Leeds, England, in a move to strengthen the firm’s shopping center portfolio.

Hill, who has 20 years of experience in the commercial property sector working with Europe’s largest and most complex retail assets, joins Knight Frank from British Land, where he was a director and member of the retail property management senior leadership team. At British Land, Hill was responsible for the management of about £1 billion ($1.3 billion) worth of assets in Sheffield. Earlier in his career, Hill spent 12 years as a director of property management at Smith Young Partnership in Sheffield.

“Hill has a proven record as one of the leading property management experts across U.K. retail space and will have a key role to play in our expansion of our shopping center team in Leeds,” said Michael Lewis, head of property and asset management at Knight Frank. “Shopping centers