Patrick Stanton
Partner, Head of Logistics and Industrial
Bidwells’ big box specialist transacted more space last year than any other industrial and logistics agent across the whole of East Anglia.

Bidwells’ big box specialist transacted more space last year than any other industrial and logistics agent across the whole of East Anglia.

Patrick has worked for Bidwells his whole career. His 15 years exclusively spent specialising in industrial, logistics and development is now coming into its own as the nation’s shopping habits transform. His passion for ‘sheds’ is unrivalled.
During 2020, he led the team that transacted a record 3.2m sq ft of big box space in 12 months across East Anglia. That’s 1.8m sq ft more than any other firm in the region (Source: EGI Radius Exchange).
Institutional funds, property companies, landowners and occupiers come to Patrick because he’s been a market specialist in East Anglia for over a decade. He has always promoted and pushed the virtues of investing in this specialist sector, even when most considered it the ugly duckling of the property world. Now it’s the asset class of choice (‘the swan sector’), his years of experience and hard work enable him to excel in his advice to clients.
His extensive knowledge of the wider logistics and industrial markets means he is now helping clients source land, understand occupiers and uncover huge opportunities as the market grows and matures. He was behind East Anglia’s largest warehouse transaction in the last decade, 870,000 sq ft at Suffolk Park, Bury St Edmunds, in 2020 and the agent responsible for transforming Peterborough Gateway from 250 acres of arable land into a 4.7m sq ft prime UK logistics park.

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