Jones East 8 is a wholly British owned partnership registered as a representative office in Ukraine in 1993. Its affiliated Ukrainian company D’Estate uses Jones East 8 as a trade name and provides property agency, advisory and design services and is led by British architect Phil Hudson.

Agency experience includes residential and commercial placement of:

British Embassy, Swiss Embassy, German Embassy, Japanese Embassy, Italian Embassy, Danish Embassy, European Bank of Reconstruction and Development, IMF, Coca Cola, Pepsi Cola, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, KPMG Peat Marwick, Arthur Andersen, Deloitte & Touche, Ernst & Young, Cargill, Group Schneider, AT&T, British Telecom, PTT Dutch Telecom, Utel, UMC, BP, NATO, Nestle, Procter & Gamble, BASF, DuPont, CSFB, Electricite de France, ING Bank, Raiffeisen Bank, Johnson & Johnson, Philip Morris, Maesk, Oracle, Otis, Societe Generale, SmithKline Beecham.


Broad experience includes:

  • Firsts in Ukraine:
    • Development and sale of wholly western owned office building, Bulvarno-Kudriavska 40 1995-1997
    • Sale, design and execution of wholly western owned bank building, Raiffeisen 1997-1998
    • Design of first wholly western owned supermarket, Billa 2000
    • Supervised the design and construction of Ukraine's first wholly western owned 280 room hotel, Radisson 2005


  • Advisory:
    • European Bank for Reconstruction and Development: appraisal and valuation of 15,000 m2 real estate assets of Yunost
    • John Deere: valuation of 2,000 m2 real estate assets
    • Raiffeisen Bank: design RBU's 7,000 m2 HQ
    • BBC: valuation of prospective office purchases
    • ING Bank: trouble shooters on a 2.5 million USD fit out project
    • Boehringer Ingelheim HQ: project managers and advisers on design, title and permissions for a 6,000 square metre office development in Podil
    • QBE valuation of prospective office purchases
    • Creditanstalt (now HVB): business plan for major overhaul of the Kyiv Hotel
    • UMC HQ: Project managers for 8,000 m2 office development
    • Lloyds underwriters: loss adjusters
    • TACIS (under the team leadership of Dutch consultancy Boucentrum): advice on local practices and supervision of energy saving in the Podol housing sector
    • US AID: valuation of a 30,000 square metre shop in Odessa for the purposes of privatization on behalf of US AID
    • Coopers & Lybrands: valuation of a factory in Ternopil and shop in Odessa
    • European Bank for Reconstruction and Development market study for a residential and office development in Kyiv
    • Private Swiss investors: advisers on title and permissions for the successful purchase of the Volodymyrska 12 site (now Millenium Office Center) which envisaged a 10,000 square metre office development
    • American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee: appraisal and valuation of the following buildings: 5,000 m2 in Kharkov, 6,000 m2 in Minsk, 3,500 m2 in Odessa and 3,500 m2 in Kishineu
    • Lease advice for international lawyers Baker & McKenzie
    • Lease advice for international lawyers Altheimer & Gray
    • European Bank for Reconstruction and Development: advice on lease terms measurement practice in Kyiv


  • Design:
    • Olympics 2012 relocation of Forman’s 3,500 m2 smoked salmon factory, conference facility, restaurant and shop
    • American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee: three community centres each of 3,500 m2 in Odessa and Moldova
    • Billa: supermarket of 4,300 m2 named Kyiv commercial project of the year 1999. This was the first wholly western owned green field supermarket in Ukraine
    • Rogofield Property Limited: Vorovskogo 40 Phase I new build & fit out for RBU 1,600 m2
    • Raiffeisen Property Invest: Vorovskogo 40 Phase II office of 7,500 m2
    • East 8's own development: Vorovskogo 42 office of 2,200 m2 British Embassy club house
    • Golden Gate Hotel: competition winners
    • Miscellaneous small designs as part of design and build contracts including apartments, offices and studios


  • Project management:
    • UMC HQ: reconstruction of existing listed building 8,000 m2
    • Raiffeisen Property Invest: new office building with steel structure behind a historic facade. Total area 1,600 m2. The project also included the fit out of banking facilities including vaults, cash desks and an EDP room. This was the first wholly western owned bank building in Ukraine
    • Boehringer Ingelheim: new office 1,800 m2 precast concrete structure
    • Radisson: 280 bedrooms hotel in Kyiv, the first wholly western owned hotel in Kyiv
    • British Embassy: refurbishment of offices for the British Council
    • Societe Generale: conversion of offices into apartment
    • Sucden Kerry: extension of office
    • International Monetary Fund: conversion of apartment to office
    • British Broadcasting Corporation: installation of studding refurbishment of office
    • Baker & McKenzie: fit out of 550 m2 office
    • Private clients: numerous apartments and small offices


Phil Hudson

  • received a scholarship and qualified at the Architectural Association, London

  • while with CMW Architects he:
    • led design teams to:
      • winning the GBP 500 million Bishops Gate Goodsyard urban renewal project in London. The project involved local community participation during the commercial tender process
      • winning the GBP 100 million BP HQ project in Paris
      • second place in the GBP 80 million Morrison Street project in Edinburgh
    • ran major projects on site including:
      • Coopers and Lybrands 10 million USD offices in the City of London
      • 5 million USD IBM production, warehouse and office facility in Havant, England
    • design projects have been published in:
      • Sunday Times
      • Financial Times
      • Daily Telegraph
      • Scotland on Sunday
      • The Scotsman
      • Building Design
      • Architects Journal

  • as partner of East 8:
    • created:
      • REDEE report (Real Estate Development in Eastern Europe Report) covering: Czech and Slovak Republics, Hungary, Poland and Russia, Romania and Bulgaria. The REDEE report analysed the market for hotels, offices, housing, industrial real estate, retail and infrastructure in the principal cities. The report also considered: development control, company law, real estate law, finance, privatisation, valuation, construction industry, developers perspective, consultants perspective and funding. The report has been referred as our 'real estate bible' by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and as the 'definitive guide' by the Financial Times
      • Realty the real estate supplement to Central European Business Weekly, published in Prague and distributed throughout Central Europe
    • presented numerous papers at seminars and conferences including:
      • 'Eastern Europe - The political and economic background' at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London
      • 'Eastern Europe - The commercial environment' at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors conference in London
      • 'The Use of Planning Competition Procedures by Local Authorities Promote Urban Regeneration' at the INTA conference in Warsaw and Krakow
      • 'Real Estate Development in Eastern Europe' at Henry Stewart's conference: European Property - a briefing for property researchers' in London
      • 'Land Management in Local Authorities in Eastern Europe' at the ADEF conference: Land Tenure and the Urban Development Process in Eastern Europe in Paris
      • 'Urban Renewal in eastern Europe' at the Adam Smith Institute conference
    • wrote on east European real estate for numerous publications including the following:
      • Financial Times (Privatisation)
      • Business Eastern Europe (Housing)
      • Euromoney (Finance)
      • Estates Gazette (Sector Analysis)
      • Estates Times (Emerging Market)
      • Building Design (Emerging Market)
      • Architects Journal (The Position of the Profession)
      • Europroperty (Russian Real Estate)
      • America's National Real Estate Investor (Sector Analysis)
      • Housing Finance in Turbulence (chapter on urban renewal)
      • Urban Renewal (chapter on eastern Europe)
      • Land Tenure and Property Development in eastern Europe (chapter on urban renewal)
      • CBI European Business Handbook (chapter on east European Real Estate)
    • advised:
      • Abela Corporation: preparation of an information memorandum for equity and debt investors for a 300 room hotel in central Kyiv. The memorandum was prepared in compliance with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development's requirements and incorporated a market study and business plan
      • European Bank for Reconstruction and Development: experts on the USD 120 million NBP Banking Centre in Warsaw, Poland. The assistance included corporate, financial, specification and insurance advice
      • Tracy Equities (on the recommendation of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development): preparation of a market study for a 15,000 square metre combined office and residential development in central Kyiv
      • Dumas West & C(on the recommendation of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development): East 8 carried out a market study on Warsaw Housing
      • German, Norwegian and Polish Governments: advice on the development of new housing policy for Poland. The advice involved pilot projects in Polish cities and culminated in a 'green paper' which formed the basis for debates in the Polish Parliament and new Polish law
      • Comco (Swiss trading company): preparation of business plan and negotiations on behalf of the client leading the sale of the Samorodinka housing project 'off plan' in Moscow for 1.25 million USD