BNI Exchange 17th January 2013

Denny Adam BA Hons MCIH

Land & Property Development Consultant

www.adamrobertsltd.co.uk

Bringing the Landed to the Gentry

My Background

■ Aged 16 – Apprentice mono-caster in the print trade

■ Aged 16 3/4 – Back to school to do A levels

■ Aged 18 – Long hot summer so sold ice cream

■ Aged 26 – Very long hot summer, gave up work, lay on beach

■ Started Humanities degree at Hatfield Poly

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

■ Graduated and worked in Housing Management

■ Moved into Social Housing Development

■ Joined Barratt Homes, then New Age Homes as Development Director

■ In 1998 started own consultancy company

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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 on the ground 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 BNI members to introduce me to building owners

Social Housing • Working with Housing Associations to develop new sites• Partnering with developers to sell their affordable to HA’s• Advising developers on best deals with HA’s • Social housing viabilities

Consulting • Planning advice on development• Three Dragon modelling for planning applications• Meeting standards for social housing • Funding structures for developments• Compulsory Purchase Orders

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Sites Wanted Like This

Bethnal Green

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Or This

The Westminster Pub - Pimlico

Tufnell Park

St Johns Wood

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To Turn Into This

Junction Road Tufnell Park

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To Turn Into This

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Development Advice Consultancy

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

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And made this a landmark development in Archway.

Elthorne Road Archway

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Regeneration Consultant to Barnet Council

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To Turn Into This

Evolution Stanmore

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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

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