International real estate consultancy Cluttons has promoted Murray Strang as the new Head of Cluttons Dubai. 

With Cluttons’s business continuing to grow in the UAE against the backdrop of a challenging real estate market, Strang will be responsible for the sustainable growth of the company’s Dubai offering, while working closely with other local and regional office heads to drive the company’s business strategy in the region. 

Strang succeeds Steve Morgan, who was appointed as the company’s youngest ever Senior Partner earlier this year. 

Morgan said: “It gives me great pleasure to see Murray appointed as the head of our Dubai business, as he has been instrumental in its growth over the past number of years. This is a significant appointment for Cluttons and one that is integral to our company’s Middle East business strategy. I look forward to working closely with Murray to realise the potential of our business in the UAE.”

Strang has eight years’ experience in the UAE’s real estate industry, having first joined Herron Todd White property valuers in Abu Dhabi in 2008. Strang moved to Cluttons in 2010 as a member of the Commercial Valuation team before assuming the responsibility of the Commercial Agency department. In that role, Strang further developed the department to incorporate Investment Consultancy services. 

Strang will now be responsible for leading Cluttons’ Dubai office’s delivery of a diverse range of services including residential sales and leasing, commercial leasing and investment, consultancy, property and facilities management and valuation.

Strang commented: “It is a great honour to be appointed Head of Cluttons Dubai in our 40^th year of operation. Since joining the business, I have seen our capabilities grow across many different sectors here in the UAE and I look forward to the challenge of carrying on the company’s momentum and sustaining that growth for many years to come.”

Strang serves on the RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) National Association Board for the UAE and is also an associate member of the Institute of Chartered Arbitrators. He will take up his new position with from June 1.