FIND OUT MORE ABOUT RACHEL
Rachel set up Building Relations in January 2015 in a bid to provide a dynamic and innovative approach to property PR. Rachel has almost 20 years of experience working with property related companies and regularly secures impressive coverage in all the major national newspaper titles. Enthusiastically working with all forms of media including radio, television and online, Rachel has experience delivering a range of impressive PR campaigns from inception to delivery.
Working in a London PR agency for the first few years of her career, Rachel then set up and managed the first pioneering in-house PR team at the UK’s largest national housebuilder, Barratt Developments. As well as continuing to deliver excellent national coverage, at Barratt Rachel developed a talent for securing regional coverage and connecting with local communities. Establishing many new PR initiatives for the housebuilder, most of these innovative campaigns were rolled out across the company and are still being used with success today.
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Ruth keeps BR’s finances in order. With over 20 years of experience – spanning corporate finance and operations, plus a decade in agency life – she brings calm and clarity to the fast-moving world of PR.
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT GILLIAN
Gill is the person who makes sure everything runs smoothly – for our clients and for us. With a background delivering events for luxury fashion houses and high-value private clients, including the Royal Garden Party at the Palace of Holyroodhouse, she knows what it takes to get the details right. At BR, she provides senior leadership support and oversees event delivery and day-to-day operations across both offices to make sure every detail is covered.
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT NICOLA
Nicola is an invaluable member of the senior team at BR, and is a trusted mentor figure within the agency. With over 10 years of property PR experience – at Luchford, Fine & Country and The Guild of Property Professionals – she has worked with some of the most prestigious names in the industry, including Christie’s International Real Estate and Berkeley Group. She specialises in the luxury property market and new homes, and has an extensive network of journalist contacts across the national and international press.
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT NATALIE
Natalie leads on our corporate, ESG and sustainability work. After handling PR for industry giants like Savills and Colliers, she now supports our clients with their sustainability and social impact work. She’s strongly anti-greenwashing (as are we) and helps make sure our clients communicate with integrity and honesty. She helps build and protect corporate reputations through strategic advice, proactive storytelling and a strong understanding of the built environment sector.
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT HOLLIE
Hollie is our new homes and affordable housing specialist. She has worked with some of the biggest names in the industry – including Barratt Redrow and Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing – on strategic communications for both B2B and B2C audiences. She also leads BR’s digital team, overseeing campaigns for clients and our own marketing and content.
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT CHARLOTTE
Charlotte works across design and architecture, construction and new homes – bringing over eight years of consumer, corporate and sustainability PR expertise. She has a strong track record with purpose-led property and design clients, and at BR she delivers campaigns, runs an active press office and brings design-led projects to life.
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT MEIG
Meig sits at the heart of all our creative projects, specialising in print and digital design. From graphics and imagery to videography, she produces visuals that support our clients’ campaigns and press releases – working closely with the PR team to make sure everything is on-brand and on point.
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT CLAIRE
Claire shapes creative content strategies for our clients. She spent 20 years as a journalist for national titles including The Scotsman and The Sunday Telegraph, before moving to a global design agency where she worked with iconic brands such as The Ritz and the Meliá Collection. She knows how to find the story in anything – and how to tell it across every channel.
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT ROSS
Ross specialises in branding and visual design at The Studio, and makes sure our clients’ visual identity works as hard as their PR. He covers print and digital and knows how to create work that looks good and functions effectively across every platform. That range of experience means he adapts quickly, understands different audiences and delivers beautiful design that’s tailored to each client’s needs.
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT CHRISTINE
Christine is a property PR veteran with more than 20 years of experience. From housebuilders and commercial property giants like Bellway, CBRE and Cushman & Wakefield, to major campaigns for the Scottish Government, Environmental Standards Scotland and British Gas, she brings a depth and range of experience that gets results across our consumer and corporate accounts.
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT HELEN
With more than five years property PR experience, gained managing major estate agent and developer accounts at her previous agency – including Dexters, Weston Homes and Aston Chase – Helen has developed strong media connections and a real instinct for the narratives that resonate across national, consumer and trade press. She’s calm under pressure, great at navigating high-level journalist briefings, and has a talent for finding and pulling together creative collaboration and partnership opportunities.
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT LAURA
Laura is one of our most experienced senior managers, with more than eight years at BR and deep expertise across property PR. She has advised some of the housing industry’s most established organisations, including Barratt Redrow, Berkeley Homes, Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing and Anchor. Laura brings detailed sector knowledge and strategic insight across both consumer and trade PR, and is a member of our dedicated public affairs team.
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT VERA
Vera leads our Scottish accounts from our Edinburgh office, and supports clients nationwide. She began her career as a journalist – most recently at BBC Scotland – before moving into property PR. She’s worked with big names like Knight Frank, Lovell Homes and Miller Homes, alongside investors, housebuilders and consultants across the UK. She brings strong storytelling instincts and sharp writing to everything she works on, turning complex built environment projects into clear, credible coverage for our clients.
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT KYLE
Kyle leads on campaigns, events and projects for our clients. He’s calm under pressure, a real people person, and brings extensive experience across media relations, event management, newsletters and podcasts. With a solid commercial property background gained at his time at CBRE, he’s a huge asset to every project he works on.
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT ERIN
Erin helps our clients get the most out of social media. She started her PR career at Connells Group, the UK’s largest estate agency, and has spent four years immersed in the B2B and B2C digital world – across LinkedIn, TikTok and Instagram – always watching what’s working and what’s next, and making sure our clients are ahead of it. When she’s not immersed in social media for our clients, Erin is studying for a degree in History and Politics with the Open University.
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT LAUREN
Lauren brings strong experience in the built environment to her role as Account Manager at BR. She has worked with construction, architecture and housebuilding clients, including Cala Homes, Stewart Milne Homes, Cruden and Briar Homes. With a master’s degree in Marketing and Management from the University of Strathclyde, she brings expertise across media relations, stakeholder engagement and campaign delivery.
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT HANNAH
Hannah supports our consumer and corporate clients. Before joining BR, she was at the Savills press office, working across the B2B divisions of one of the world’s leading real estate companies. Well connected across the trade press like Estates Gazette, CoStar, Green Street News and Property Week, she knows exactly how to get your story in front of the right people.
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT SOPHIE
From planning to delivery, Sophie helps our clients shine on social media. When she joined BR in 2024, she brought a strong digital instinct and quickly found her place supporting on all things social. She has a fantastic instinct for emerging trends and translating them into creative content for our clients across Instagram, TikTok and LinkedIn.
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT ZAYNATH
Zaynath supports our clients with press releases, area audits, media monitoring, journalist outreach and campaign and events preparation. Alongside her role with us, she studies Religion, Politics and Society at King’s College London, where her role as Secretary of the TRS Society has helped her develop strong skills in critical thinking, understanding public narratives and communicating complex ideas clearly.
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT HAILEY
Hailey brings a writer’s eye to everything she works on. After graduating with a First Class degree in Creative Writing, she moved into PR – where those skills come into their own every day. She coordinates The BR Bulletin, our weekly newsletter, and creates content for our own social channels, with a real instinct for copy that feels genuine rather than generic.
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT MATT
Matt leads growth marketing, events and strategic partnerships at BR, shaping how we position clients, bring industry leaders together and deliver commercially intelligent campaigns. He designs and delivers flagship events for BR and for our clients, leads our e-marketing and the Around the Table podcast, and champions innovation and digital tools across the agency. As founder of Sustainabuild, he brings deep sector insight and strong industry connections – keeping us at the forefront of property, sustainability and place-based communications.
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT SOPHIA
Sophia supports the team on consumer and corporate clients including affordable housing providers, housebuilders, interior designers, later living providers and main contractors. Before she joined Building Relations, she worked in the marketing team of a surveying consultancy. Her background in creative writing helps bring our clients’ brand stories to life.
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT RAMSAY
Ramsay leads our political engagement activity, strengthening our political access and profile. A former Special Adviser to the Prime Minister, he brings 25 years of experience working at the highest levels of government in London and Edinburgh – giving our clients direct access to deep political insight and negotiation expertise across the UK.
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT KAY
Kay provides high-level writing support for opinion pieces, ghost-written articles, awards entries and more. She is a professional journalist and sub-editor who has worked on regional newspapers and national magazines for more than three decades. Kay has a specialist interest in design and the built environment and is an unashamed grammar nerd!
