Lacks appreciation for employees and any attempt at flexible working - Anonymous employee GVA Property Consultancy Employee Review

Good solid brand, corporate reputation helps with clients. Quality staff across the organisation in varied fields and parts of the UK.

Certain teams are notoriously unpleasant to work in, especially within PDR (planning, dev & regen). There is no guarantee of senior support for or loyalty to junior staff. The sense is that some people will cope with that, others will self-eject. Collaboration is almost unheard of. Expect to see fiefdoms, turf wars, different teams competing for the same work, personal conflict, people who've never spoken to colleagues etc. Asking colleagues to tell you about what their projects involve can result in vagueness and suspicion. I was there over the recession and there were almost weekly redundancies, without explanation or any sense of strategy. Managers seem to have no natural instinct for anything other than project management and sales, and evidently they get no training in leading actual human beings.

Good people. Avison Young took over so GVA no longer exists

Cost of living rises are not a thing. You stay on what you are hired at until you argue a pay rise. Some managers are paid less than the people under them because they have been with the company longer! Managers very protective of little empires and will not share information. very cliquey. Everyone is a director... There are quite literally hundreds of directors so the title means absolutely nothing. The best people are recognised by being able to get a job somewhere else. Avison Young did not get rid of the right people.