Saving Residential Developers Money

April 2013

Denny Adam BA Hons MCIH

Land & Property Development Consultant

www.adamrobertsltd.co.uk

Bringing the Landed to the Gentry

My Background

■ Worked in sales from leaving school

■ Started Humanities degree as mature student in 1976 at Hatfield Poly

■ Students need somewhere to live so started a Housing Co-operative

■ Graduated and took sabbatical as student union president

■ First housing job in Property and Tenancy Management

■ Moved into Social Housing Development

■ Joined Barratt Homes 1989

■ Joined New Age Homes in 1990 as Development Director

■ In 1998 started land and property consultancy company Adam Roberts

Consultancy Ltd

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What do we do?

What How

Site Finding • Identify off market opportunities for developer and RSL clients

• Carry out detailed searches to identify potential development sites

• Speaking with business owners looking to move, retire or sell up

• Creating links with solicitors, insolvency practitioners and architects

• Asking all contacts to introduce me to building owners looking to sell

Social Housing • Working with Housing Associations to develop new sites

• Local Authority Regeneration schemes

• Partnering with developers to sell their affordable to HA’s

• Advising developers on best price for their social housing

• Social housing viabilities

Consulting • Financial viabilities and reports for residential planning applications

• Meeting design standards for social housing

• Funding structures for developments

• Compulsory Purchase Order consultation and implementation

Sites Wanted Like This

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Bethnal Green

Or This

The Westminster Pub - Pimlico

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Tufnell Park

St Johns Wood

To Turn Into This

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Junction Road Tufnell Park

To Turn Into This

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Development Advice Consultancy

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Brought in to make

the social housing

work on a conversion

of a clothing factory

with planning for 45

flats we sorted the

social housing &

doubled the density

And made this a landmark development in Archway.

Elthorne Road Archway9

Regeneration Consultant to Barnet Council

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To Turn Into This

Evolution Stanmore 11

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Site Finding

I have clients actively looking for development opportunities in:

• Central London – existing hotels or sites for hotels – 80 to 120 keys

• Shoreditch to Stratford – commercial buildings for change of use

• London & Home Counties – large sites with or without planning

• Barnet, Enfield & Islington – plots or buildings for 5 to 50 residential

• London W & SW postcodes – single apartments or buildings

• North East London & Essex – sites for 15 to 75 residential

Just a few of my clients

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Consulting – S106 legal Agreements

Tufnell Park - Islington

Reduced 50% to

0% affordable

housing on appeal

Archway – Islington

We renegotiated an old S106 to make this

viable and increase the developers profit

on this landmark development in.

Croydon – Successfully reduced

affordable housing planning

obligation for private developer.

Enfield – we recently

saved our client over

£72,000 by

negotiating the S106

on their behalf.

Holiday

Homes for

Sale

Greece

The Greek

Islands

Cyprus

Turkey

Investors Wanted

Caribbean Investment

From £155,000

to £1,225,000

Ideal for SIPP

What to listen out for• “I want to retire but don’t know what to do with my business premises”

• “I have this rambling old house in a posh part of town and I want to move”

• “I can’t find a decent site / property to develop”

• “Planners want me to virtually give away half of my development to affordable”

• “Planners want me to pay £xxx for affordable just to get consent”

• “I want to buy a holiday home in the sun”

A Good Referral For Me

■ Developer

■ House Builder

■ Architect

■ Surveyor

■ Planning Consultant

■ Insolvency Practitioner

■ Solicitor

■ Probate

■ Or an Investor