For developers, promoters & investors
Sites that survive the appraisal, not just the site visit.
Fifteen years spent inside and alongside the land teams of the UK’s largest housebuilders and promoters. The brief is familiar: the right sites, appraised honestly, with the planning risk understood before land committee rather than after it.
Placeholder photograph — replace before launch. Construction of new housing estate by TCExplorer, cropped, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Geograph.
Services
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Retained site search
A defined land brief — geography, unit range, tenure, planning status, hurdle rate — worked systematically rather than opportunistically. Desk-based identification, ownership research, constraints filtering and a shortlist you can actually take to committee, with landowner approaches handled directly and discreetly.
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Off-market and pre-allocation introductions
Landowner relationships on the other side of the business mean sites are frequently visible before they are marketed, and sometimes before they are allocated. Where a site is being sold on behalf of a landowner client, that is disclosed at the outset and we act for one side only.
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Acquisition and deal delivery
Negotiation of heads of terms, structuring the acquisition, and running the transaction through legal due diligence, conditions and planning triggers to exchange and completion. Most deals do not fail at agreement — they fail in the eight months afterwards, and that is where the work is.
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Appraisal, viability and bid support
Residual appraisals and sensitivity analysis, benchmark land value and viability positions for planning, and bid strategy on competitive sites. An independent read on where an appraisal is optimistic is worth considerably more than one that agrees with you.
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Planning strategy and risk review
Local plan position, housing land supply, allocation prospects, likely obligations, and a realistic programme. What consent is achievable on a site, on what timescale, and what could stop it — before the land is committed.
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Strategic land and portfolio review
Review of an existing strategic land pipeline: which sites are genuinely progressing, which agreements are working against you, where costs are running ahead of prospects, and what should be released.
How we engage
Retained, introduced, or project by project.
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Retained search
A monthly retainer against a defined brief and geography, with an acquisition fee on completion. Suits builders and promoters who need consistent coverage of a patch rather than a lucky introduction.
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Introductory
Fee on completion where a site is introduced and the transaction proceeds. Terms agreed in writing before any introduction is made.
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Project advisory
Fixed-fee or day-rate work on a specific site or question — appraisal review, planning risk, bid strategy, or a second opinion before committee.
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Conflict position
We act for landowners as well as buyers. Any potential conflict is declared before an engagement begins, and we act for one party on any given site. That is stated plainly because it is the first thing a professional land team will want to know.
Opportunities
First sight of sites, before they are marketed.
Tell us the brief and you will hear about sites that fit it. Nothing else — no newsletter, no list-selling, and you can unsubscribe from any message.
Start a conversation
Tell us about your land.
A confidential, no-obligation appraisal of what your land could be worth, what consent it might realistically achieve, and which route to market fits your circumstances. No fee, no tie-in.