En Voyage - Issue #8
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JASON HYLAND, KARINA DE CARTERET, SIMON TORODE AND NICK PALUCH<br />
LIVINGROOM NAMED WORLD’S BEST<br />
ESTATE AGENCY FOR MARKETING<br />
Livingroom Estate Agents has won a<br />
highly-coveted international award<br />
for its marketing at the global final<br />
of the prestigious International<br />
Property Awards.<br />
The Guernsey estate agency won<br />
three five-star awards – Single<br />
Office Guernsey, Marketing Channel<br />
Islands and Website UK – at the UK<br />
edition of the International Property<br />
Awards in October. Livingroom then<br />
won both the marketing and website<br />
categories at the UK regional<br />
finals and was chosen to solely<br />
represent the United Kingdom in<br />
both categories against a further 48<br />
countries at the grand final.<br />
Alongside 100 property industry<br />
leaders, Livingroom attended<br />
the gala final in London and<br />
subsequently won the industry<br />
pinnacle award for International Real<br />
Estate Marketing, beating finalists<br />
from five other countries – Abu<br />
GAME-CHANGING ID REGISTER GOES<br />
FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH WITH<br />
ADVICE FROM CAREY OLSEN<br />
A little over a year after launch,<br />
the revolutionary Guernsey-based<br />
private funds platform, the ID<br />
Register (theidregister.com), has<br />
grown substantially with help from<br />
Carey Olsen.<br />
The ID Register is a universal investor<br />
onboarding platform created in<br />
response to the changing regulatory<br />
requirements and frustration in the<br />
funds industry at the lengthy paperbased<br />
processes for customer due<br />
diligence (CDD); it lets users create<br />
one complete Know Your Client and<br />
FATCA profile and share it securely<br />
with their counterparts.<br />
Director of the ID Register, Tim<br />
Andrews, said: ‘The ID Register<br />
Dhabi, Germany, New Zealand,<br />
Mexico and the USA.<br />
Simon Torode, founder and<br />
Managing Director of Livingroom<br />
Estate Agents said, ‘We were<br />
immensely proud to represent the<br />
whole of the UK at the international<br />
awards and to win the international<br />
award for marketing was a huge<br />
surprise and enormous honour.’<br />
‘As a single office agency of just 18<br />
people from Guernsey, to compete<br />
against huge organisations with<br />
international footprints is remarkable<br />
but to actually win is amazing and<br />
hopefully helps to put Guernsey on<br />
the map in the property world. All<br />
of our clients will hopefully benefit<br />
from the exposure – especially our<br />
Open Market vendors who have<br />
now been exposed to a global<br />
audience all curious as to how a<br />
small unknown single office can win<br />
on such a large scale,’ he said.<br />
has doubled in size in less than 12<br />
months by attracting clients from<br />
across the world – a great success<br />
story for Guernsey.’<br />
The ID Register worked with<br />
Stepstone, KPMG and IPES to build<br />
the platform; Carey Olsen partner<br />
David Crosland advised on the<br />
register’s set-up and continues to<br />
act as counsel for the ongoing legal<br />
management of the system.<br />
Tim said: ‘We rely on David and the<br />
Carey Olsen team to help us navigate<br />
intellectual property, client contracts<br />
and data privacy legislation. Carey<br />
Olsen really understand our business,<br />
know their stuff and have gone the<br />
extra mile to help us.’<br />
SKIPTON WELCOME<br />
BUSIEST QUARTER<br />
FOR PROPERTY<br />
SALES SINCE 2012<br />
New business Lordes Luxury Car<br />
Storage looks set to become a<br />
focal point for international owners<br />
of ultra-rare automobiles that<br />
require state-of-the-art storage.<br />
Lordes' facility, at a discrete location<br />
on the island, will house 106 luxury<br />
automobiles in a custom-designed,<br />
high-security environment.<br />
Chairman, Karen Lewis, and Chief<br />
Executive Officer, Robert Lewis, have<br />
moved their homes to Guernsey.<br />
‘For us choosing the location for<br />
our storage facility involved a lot<br />
of factors from costs, to property<br />
selection, to taxes and to lifestyle<br />
and ease of doing business;<br />
Guernsey ticked all the boxes. We’re<br />
delighted to be a new member<br />
of the business community in<br />
Guernsey and eager to promote<br />
the island to our international client<br />
base,’ Karen said.<br />
‘Investors from around the world,<br />
including the UK, Europe, Middle<br />
East, Asia and America, are<br />
increasingly seeing the value of<br />
collectable car investment – either<br />
directly buying the vehicles or<br />
through funds yielding excellent<br />
annual returns,’ said Robert.<br />
MOURANT OZANNES<br />
'POWER WOMEN'<br />
RECOGNISED<br />
Three Mourant Ozannes<br />
lawyers have been recognised<br />
in the Citywealth 2017 IFC<br />
Powerwomen Top 200 list.<br />
Jessica Roland, Managing Partner,<br />
Guernsey, Felicia de Laat, who<br />
heads up the firm's marketleading<br />
Funds practice in Jersey<br />
and Rachael McDonald, Managing<br />
Partner, British Virgin Islands have<br />
been named among the 200 most<br />
influential female professionals<br />
across the world's international<br />
financial centres (IFCs).<br />
Mourant Ozannes Global<br />
Managing Partner Jonathan<br />
Rigby said: ‘We are very proud of<br />
Rachael, Jessica and Felicia and<br />
this recognition is testament to the<br />
significant contributions they have<br />
made in their respective fields.’<br />
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