About Alchemist

The Alchemist Group was founded by Brian Gillies in 2004 and currently comprises more than fifteen individual companies which are active in the fields of Property Development, Property Investment, Property Consultancy, Asset Management and Fund Management. Based in Glasgow the company has been actively involved in property projects in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Over the course of his career, Brian has been directly responsible for well in excess of £1 Billion of investment and development projects in real terms. Projects Brian has been responsible for have won a large number of awards for disabled access, conservation and urban regeneration. Among other awards, one of Brian’s shopping centres was placed third in the best shopping centre in Europe awards at MIPIM in France. Another has been voted best shopping centre in Britain and best shopping centre in Europe.

From its inception in 2004 the Alchemist Group was active in building up an impressive portfolio of investment and development projects and actively looked to trade these properties on when their profit potential had been maximised. Towards the end of 2006, realising that a property crash was imminent, Alchemist switched strategies and decided to take advantage of the high prices available in the market and has since carried out only sales, selling properties in Aberdeen, Ayr, Cowdenbeath, Dumfries, Edinburgh, Fort William, Stockton and Stranraer. The Company concentrated on reducing its bank debt and in March 2008 new bank facilities were arranged for a period of 5 years at a margin of 1% over base rate.