Business Details
Expert Chartered Surveyors for Leisure & Healthcare Properties
C D L H is a specialist firm of Chartered Surveyors established by Alan C Creevy and Peter E Darroch to provide unrivalled client service in the Leisure, Hospitality, Healthcare, and Commercial property sectors. Our founding directors bring over 50 years of combined experience as Chartered Surveyors within the Licensed Leisure and Hotel sectors, having previously held director positions at Jones Lang LaSalle, Creevy LLH, and Chesterton. We offer a niche firm structure with passionate individuals who deliver accurate advice, adhere to strict confidentiality, and achieve results that add substantial value to clients.Our services extend beyond traditional surveying, incorporating business analysis skills to provide tailored expertise in agency, valuation, professional, and consultancy fields. We operate from offices in Glasgow and Edinburgh, covering Scotland and the wider UK. Our professional indemnity insurance of 5m per claim matches the standards of large international property service companies, ensuring clients benefit from both expertise and robust operational systems. Regulated by the RICS, we combine traditional surveying principles with a deep understanding of trading business dynamics to deliver world-class service.
Services
Valuation
Agency
Insolvency
Rent Review
Expert Witness
Development
Acquisitions
Property Rates
Highlights and features
- We offer over 50 years combined experience in leisure and hospitality property sectors
- Our RICS-regulated services combine surveying expertise with business analysis skills
- We provide tailored advice for complex property valuations and transactions
- Our Glasgow and Edinburgh offices offer local market knowledge across Scotland
- We maintain 5m professional indemnity insurance per claim for client security
Associations and certifications
- RICS
Services
Valuation
We provide detailed valuation advice for banks and professional advisors across hotels, public houses, restaurants, and leisure properties. Our reports incorporate business analysis benchmarked against KPIs to identify true profit returns. We use modern technology to deliver thoroughly researched reports that highlight critical asset aspects for loan security, asset valuations, and tax purposes.
Insolvency
We offer expert insolvency guidance for lenders and practitioners, covering business appraisal through to disposal strategies. Our directors have extensive experience in turnaround strategies and repossession processes. We specialise in balancing asset value with operational performance considerations during disposal while evaluating alternative use values for optimal client outcomes.
Expert Witness
Alan Creevy, our RICS-approved expert witness, provides court-compliant valuation evidence in hotel, pub, and leisure property cases. With Fellow status at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, he combines surveying expertise with legal knowledge to deliver robust expert reports for Sheriff Court and Court of Session proceedings.
Development
We specialise in development appraisals for hospitality and healthcare properties including hotels, care homes, and commercial developments. Our expertise covers ownership structures, operator requirements, and viability studies. We assist clients from initial appraisal through tenant acquisition to final asset sale with detailed understanding of lease, franchise, and management contract models.
Property Rates
We challenge incorrect rateable values for leisure and hospitality properties across Scotland. Our RICS-qualified surveyors use extensive benchmark data to identify personal goodwill for removal from assessments. We successfully reduced a hotel's rateable value from 93,000 to 29,500 in 2017, achieving 160,015 savings over five years through our specialist appeal process.
People
Alan Creevy
Director
BSc FRICS FCIArb with extensive experience in leisure and hospitality property valuation. Specialises in expert witness work and dispute resolution. Completed RICS-approved expert witness training and maintains membership on the national RICS Expert Witness Register.
Peter Darroch
Director
BSc FRICS qualified surveyor with specialist expertise in licensed leisure and hotel property sectors. Brings significant transactional experience from previous roles at major property firms. Focuses on valuation and agency services for commercial property assets.
Steven Tolson
Director of Healthcare & Housing
Leads healthcare sector expansion with specialist knowledge of care homes, sheltered housing, and medical practice valuations. Combines property expertise with understanding of healthcare operational requirements to deliver tailored valuation and consultancy services.
Questions
What property sectors does CDLH specialise in?
We specialise in leisure, hospitality, and healthcare property sectors including hotels, pubs, restaurants, care homes, and medical practices across Scotland and the UK.
Can CDLH help with commercial property valuations?
Yes, we provide detailed valuation reports for banks and advisors with business analysis benchmarked against KPIs for hotels, pubs, restaurants, and leisure properties.
Do you offer expert witness services?
Alan Creevy is a RICS-approved expert witness specialising in hotel, pub, and leisure property valuations with extensive court experience in Scotland.
Can you assist with business rates appeals?
We challenge incorrect rateable values using specialist benchmark data and successfully reduced a hotel's rateable value by £63,500 in 2017, saving £160,015 over five years.
What development services do you offer?
We provide development appraisals and viability studies for hospitality and healthcare properties, covering ownership structures, operator requirements, and asset sales strategies.
Are you regulated by professional bodies?
We are regulated by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and maintain £5m professional indemnity insurance per claim for client security.
Reviews (1)
Michael Heavey
Sep 22, 2021
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A very professional operation. Well regarded
I found Kevin to be totally customer focussed and very helpful.
I found Kevin to be totally customer focussed and very helpful.
