"Within our world of property, if you don't have resilience these days, then you may as well not be in it," says Andy Butts, Centrick’s homes and investments director. Butts is preparing to cycle 100 miles around London for charity, with months of preparation finishing this weekend when he takes to the Ride London 2024 starting line.

The Birmingham real estate specialist is raising funds for Get Up Give Back, which supports five cancer charities, each providing a beacon of hope and support for those battling the disease. The mammoth riding challenge will set off from Victoria Embankment in the heart of the city, before heading north towards Essex, and ending back in London at Tower Bridge.

Butts says he has had to rely on familiar qualities needed in the real estate world during his training. "I'm very target- and sales-driven, so there is an element of goal-setting and goal-achieving in that. It has helped me to put a training plan together and commit to riding X amount of miles in the week and so many on the weekend."

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Cushman & Wakefield has added two residential capital markets hires in the UK. Mike Gorman is joining from rivals Colliers to lead residential capital markets activity across core regional UK markets, bringing 20 years of residential market insight.

At Colliers, he was a director and head of northern residential capital markets and development. His role at Cushman & Wakefield Leeds will see him focus on regional build-to-rent and single-family housing. Jack Wagner joins the agency as an associate in the residential capital markets team.

Offices design and space management firm Space Solutions has promoted Vicki Walker to the role of regional director across Scotland's Central Belt. She has more than 20 years' experience and joined the firm in 2010, according to her LinkedIn profile. The step up will see her develop an in-depth understanding of requirements of office spaces in the area.

Group managing director, Steve Judge, said: "Having worked alongside Vicki for over a decade, she is a well-respected business leader with a wealth of experience in the changing workplace... this appointment is so well deserved."

CBRE has promoted Colin Thomasson to head of UK investment properties after 12 years with the brokerage. Thomasson, who is an executive director, will maintain his responsibility for running the northern investment properties business and will continue to be based in CBRE’s Manchester office. He will retain his role as lead adviser to the Greater Manchester Property Venture Fund.

Thomasson is asked to drive improvement in efficiency and productivity across the investment properties business and will work alongside Richard Dakin, head of capital advisors.

Tech expert Kerensa Jennings has joined Knight Frank's executive board as a non-executive adviser. The agency describes Jennings an award-winning technology leader and professional adviser "combining a rare skillset of communications expertise, technology and media leadership built up over her 30-year career".

Jennings was most recently a director of data platforms at telecoms giant BT, with other roles including chief executive of a digital social enterprise for the Royal Household based at Buckingham Palace, and head of strategic delivery at the BBC. Since 2009, she has served on a range of boards including commercial companies, social enterprises, charities and government committees.

Catella APAM, the specialist UK and Ireland real estate manager, has hired Florence Chu as a senior property manager based in its London office. Chu has a BSc in Planning and Real Estate and an MSc in International Real Estate and Planning from University College London.

Ian Lester, head of commercial property management, said: "Florence is going to be a great addition working on some of our new mandates as well as existing instructions and will help us to continue to grow our properties under management by offering a high-quality service to all our clients."