About Us

Providing the best market intelligence and property expertise available in Wales

  • Board of Directors Cooke & Arkwright
  • Agency team Cooke & Arkwright
  • Agency team Cooke & Arkwright

Cooke & Arkwright is the largest firm of independent commercial property advisors in Wales. With a heritage going back over 100 years, we have been a major force in shaping the Welsh commercial and rural property world.

Cooke & Arkwright is the largest firm of commercial property advisors in Wales, but we are still small enough to be innovative and fleet of foot. Our scale and the scope of the business gives us unparalleled market intelligence and number of contacts and applicants. The Directors who own the firm all live in Wales and continue to provide clients with a personal service, and the whole team works to the highest standards of professionalism, honesty and integrity. We achieve this by employing and investing in talented individuals who are not only the best in their fields in Wales, but also genuinely proud of and passionate about their work, the problems they solve for their clients and what they contribute to society.

Based in South Wales with our head office in Cardiff and a hub office in London, we provide clients with advice on commercial, rural, retail and development properties in Cardiff, all parts of Wales and beyond. We are passionate about property in Wales and our focus is on using our expert and unrivalled access to market intelligence in Wales, giving our clients commercial advice to help them maximise the potential of their assets, whether they own, rent or develop. We are the local property experts in Wales.

Sectors and Services

Our clients receive a dedicated Director-led service covering property issues in the following sectors:

Property services are provided in each of these sectors by our teams of very experienced Directors and staff. These services include:

Cooke & Arkwright’s wide ranging client base includes many well-known public and private organisations with regional, national and international backgrounds. This bears testimony to the respect that the name Cooke & Arkwright has earned during many years operating in the Welsh and UK property market.

We will continue to nurture close professional relationships with our clients to ensure that they benefit from what we confidently believe to be the best market intelligence and property expertise available in Wales.

Policies and Accreditations

The following are the policies and accreditations of Cooke & Arkwright:

Policies

Accreditations

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Cooke & Arkwright have been providing rating valuation advice to The Welsh Rugby Union Limited (“WRU”) and Millennium Stadium plc for many years. They were recently successful in achieving substantial reductions in the assessments of the Millennium Stadium, covering both the 2005 and 2010 rating list. These negotiated reductions yielded savings of c.£3.5m which, crucially, allows the WRU to re-invest in rugby throughout Wales. They advise the WRU across the group portfolio including the National Centre of Excellence in the Vale of Glamorgan. The valuation issues across the WRU portfolio are complex requiring a high level of understanding of the funding and finances of professional sport in Wales. Cooke & Arkwright’s experience and understanding of these issues and application to the rating valuation have yielded these substantial negotiated reductions. The WRU and the Millennium Stadium entrust our work to organisations with the required levels in experience and expertise in dealing with these complex issues. I am glad to say we have this expertise in Wales. I would have no hesitation in recommending ratepayers making use of this Welsh based expertise.

The Welsh Rugby Union Limited, Welsh Rugby Union Group