Watkin Jones brings a wealth of energy, experience and expertise to every project – ensuring a standard of excellence that’s renowned and respected throughout the industry We have a strong emphasis on craftsmanship and are highly committed to our employees, who we see as the key to our continued growth and success We have also focussed on developing opportunities with our clients and partners that do not require us to secure additional funding on our own account However, the inertia within the property investment market in the earlier part of the year caused by the lack of liquidity led to a delay in securing sales of two of our student schemes in the year, with a combined value of approximately £30m As a consequence we are now in the fortunate position that we are at an advanced stage of negotiation with a number of different investors for the sale of our current developments and we expect these sales to complete early in 2010