Andrew Hilston

Andrew Hilston is a of Managing Director at The Ardent Companies in the London office. He will be responsible for deal origination, development, marketing and asset performance for the UK operations. Andrew is a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and is also a RTPI Chartered Town Planner. Andrew has 20 years of client-side property experience at UK FTSE 100 REITs Landsec and Hammerson, as well as Brookfield and most recently at the sovereign wealth backed Battersea Power Station Development Company. Prior to joining Ardent in January 2021, Andrew worked across Retail, Office, and Residential asset classes, with projects and transactions such as the mixed used Christ’s Lane in Cambridge, West Quay Shopping Centre in Southampton (winner of the Prix Versailles architectural medal), Victoria Gate in Leeds (winner of Best Shopping Centre at MIPIM Awards), the Norman Foster designed Principal Place Office Building (pre let to Amazon), the disposal of a prime central London £520m office portfolio, as well as strategic land acquisitions and joint venture partnerships. Andrew has a BSc (Hons) in Land Management and Development and MSc in Property Development from University of Reading.