William Pears Group

[2] William Pears Group owns 3–4,000 London freehold residential properties, including large areas of Notting Hill.

[2] In 2009, William Pears Group paid £750 million to Land Securities, to buy Telereal Trillium, a commercial property management and investment company.

[citation needed] In April 2013, William Pears Group bought The Spires Shopping Centre in Barnet, London, from the bank UBS for a reported £34 million.

Through Pears Global, they have "up to 6,200 apartments" in Berlin, managed through a series of "letterbox companies".

[11][7] Organisations and initiatives supported by the foundation include the Pears Cumbria School of Medicine (a cooperation between the University of Cumbria and Imperial College London),[12] The Scout Association,[13] Carers Trust,[14] and other medical projects including the Pears Building at the Royal Free Hospital, the Kent and Medway Medical School, the Clarice Pears Building at the University of Glasgow (named after Clive Pears's Glasgow-born wife, Clarice, mother of David, Mark and Trevor)[15] and the Pears Maudsley Centre for Children and Young People in London, which is a joint project of South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, the Maudsley Charity, and King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience.