James Kingdom is a Director at JLL with 11 years of industry experience and a longer track record in real estate research, capital markets and thought leadership across residential and alternative sectors. He progressed from research analyst roles into senior leadership, now shaping UK Living Capital Markets research and consultancy and advising on core cities and the knowledge economy. Based in London, he combines MSc-level real estate expertise with practical experience leading teams and producing market insight that informs investment decisions. Unusually for a real-estate leader, he has contributed front-end fixes and UI improvements to the widely used openstreetmap/iD editor, showing hands-on technical curiosity beyond his day job. His background spans major firms including Bilfinger GVA, Savills and Colliers, reflecting deep sector relationships and a track record of building research capability. He focuses on turning complex market data into actionable strategy for clients and stakeholders.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
MSc, Real Estate, MSc, Real Estate at Kingston University
BSc (Hons), Property Studies, BSc (Hons), Property Studies at Sheffield Hallam University
🆔 The easy-to-use OpenStreetMap editor in JavaScript.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:113 commits, 40 PRs, 97 pushes in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:James focused on front-end development within the OpenStreetMap editor. Their contributions primarily involved modifying UI components and styling elements, as demonstrated by changes to preset and CSS files. They also addressed bugs related to tag handling and made adjustments to the rendering of map features. The user also worked on test cases.
Contributions:1 release, 7 PRs, 20 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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