From finding and acquiring the best strategic sites, to helping you find ideal occupiers, our expert team will work with you throughout the development lifecycle to maximise the return on your investment.
Our team of experts can assist you at each stage of the development lifecycle:
Finding and acquiring suitable land and property for development
Financing development – securing funding and investors and structuring joint ventures and development partnerships
Supporting design and build/speculative development – providing planning, feasibility and masterplanning studies
Pre-letting or selling your development – developing and implementing a marketing strategy and securing occupiers
Advising on construction cost and project management – ensuring your project is delivered on time and to budget, meeting all necessary building regulations and quality standards
We will provide advice on where to build and at what time in the cycle to ensure your scheme is viable and commercially profitable
Providing market insights for developers
We provide developers with detailed, on-the-ground advice for every major town and city, including the key distribution markets and the major regional office markets. Our UKIT report tracks real investment yields – the price actually paid, not the notional prime yield.
With specialist in both distressed property and business assets our team can provide the full spectrum of services required by the Restructuring and Insolvency industry either individually or jointly. Find out more below, or contact one of our specialists who will be happy to help.
Development Consultancy
Financing development
Letting developments
Site disposal and acquisition
Development Consultancy
Our clients are successfully place-making and place-shaping. We support our clients at every step in the development process from feasibility to delivery.
Our overriding objective is to deliver services which will secure the optimum value from our clients’ property. Our clients’ key objectives drive our delivery of best value whether they are operational, occupational, or transactional.
Working closely with market-facing experts active in all key property sectors, we provide clear recommendations. Our more complex projects will involve formulating delivery solutions which may comprise joint venture, development partnership or conditional land sale. Our property solutions address public sector procurement, understanding of risk and an appreciation of community benefits including Social Value outcomes.
Our team can advise on all key stages from project feasibility through to development management. An essential part of our service is being able to draw on public and private sector experience taken from locally based advisors operating across the UK.
Development and regeneration consultancy
Scheme optimisation
Property rationalisation and space utilisation
Development solutions
Options evaluation and testing
Financial viability assessments
Red Book and RTB valuations
Funding and financing strategies
Land assembly, property acquisitions and disposals
Our capital markets team will help you secure development funding to begin the build process, even with the lack of finance available from traditional banking sources. Our team is well connected to the private equity, insurers, opportunity funds and alternative sources of capital that are now the most likely source of funding for any development opportunity.
We will identify suitable parties for forward purchase or forward commitment to provide you with the property finance you need to build your development site. If you’ve already secured an agreement for a lease, we find partners to help you fund, build or forward sell your property development.
We help align you to the correct partners to make the most of the investment and development opportunities currently available. We will source funding or joint venture partners for you who will provide the capital to unlock existing developments in your portfolio or to help acquire new schemes.
We also offer direct experience in the formation of delivery vehicles with the public sector - in London alone we have experience of partnerships with a combined asset value of £1 bn.
Speculative development holds risks. We help developers secure pre-lets to reduce the risk inherent in a new development. We will help you to establish the credibility of your new scheme by developing a marketing strategy and securing occupiers.
Letting your development
Our agency teams advise developers on lettings, tenant mix and marketing strategy. We’ve got the UK covered having consistently been the most active agents in the UK over the past decade. In particular, our agency team has deep experience in the core industrial, retail and office markets.
Also, being part of Countrywide plc means we can bring the skills of the the UK's largest estate agency and lettings network to strengthen our capabilities when letting residential or mixed use developments.
We achieve maximum value on disposals and source acquisition opportunities for our clients in the commercial and residential markets, linking developers with prime land and property opportunities.
Providing detailed due diligence
Thorough research of a development opportunity, whether it be a site or existing property, is key. We have the specialist knowledge that is required for this detailed due diligence and will consider:
End occupier demand and accommodation requirements
Bringing about private and public sector partnerships
The private and public sector is increasingly teaming up to deliver new development schemes. The public sector has access to land and buildings and requires funding and development expertise to generate capital receipts and the redevelopment of its aging stock. Our work with the over 250 public sector bodies means we have access to surplus land that is ripe for redevelopment.