Sectors
Living, commercial and mixed-use development.
Different sites and assets call for different decisions. We apply development, preconstruction and project management expertise to residential, rental-led, commercial, industrial and mixed-use opportunities across London, Central and South England.
The scope reflects the project, its objectives and the specialist inputs required, not a standard package applied to every building.
Sector
Living
Living covers every kind of residential scheme: houses and flats for sale, build to rent, single-family rental, and student accommodation and co-living. The questions differ by tenure, but the method is the same. We test how design, mix, tenure, specification, cost and programme affect the development case, and help clients progress the preferred route through development and delivery.
An appointment may concern an acquisition, a choice between selling and renting, a consented scheme that needs another look, or additional development and preconstruction support alongside an existing team. Where operational or market assumptions need specialist input, we say so and bring it into the same appraisal.
Typical questions
- What options fit the site and the brief?
- Should the homes be sold, rented or a mix of both?
- How do mix, tenure and specification affect the appraisal?
- What delivery sequence, phasing and budget are realistic?
Relevant services
FeasibilityDue diligenceInvestment reviewsDesign, mix & valueDevelopment managementPreconstruction
Experience and further reading
- Elizabeth Homes: development & acquisition advisory
- Nine Elms Park: 756 homes over a full-site basement
- Residential development (homes for sale)
- Build to rent
- Single-family rental
- Student accommodation and co-living
- Build to rent or for sale: comparing options on one basis
- Large gardens and backland sites
- Land with planning permission
- Barn and rural building conversions
Sector
Commercial & Industrial
Advice for owners and buyers deciding how to use, improve or realise value from commercial and industrial property. We compare the cost, programme and development implications of occupation, refurbishment, alternative uses and disposal, drawing on market evidence and specialist advice where required.
Where the chosen option involves works, preconstruction and project management support can be agreed to progress it.
Typical questions
- What will adaptation or fit-out require?
- Should surplus buildings be sold, let or assessed for another use?
- What constraints affect the options?
- What budget, programme and information are needed before proceeding?
Sector
Mixed-use & Regeneration
Complex sites need a delivery strategy that reflects infrastructure, access, third-party interfaces and the sequence of development. We help test how those constraints affect programme, procurement and the commercial case, and how the scheme can be progressed in workable phases.
Our role connects planning, design and engineering proposals with the practical and commercial requirements of delivery.
Typical questions
- What must happen first?
- Which interfaces could change the sequence?
- How should the phases be organised?
- How would a programme change affect cost and funding assumptions?