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Projects delivered
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Refurbish
Building, extending or refurbishing?
We price it, plan it and build it, under our own trade contracts.
Residential and commercial, from Preston across the UK and abroad.
Answer four quick questions and we will call you to talk the job through, advise on the route and tell you what it should cost. It takes about two minutes.
What do you want built?
The main job, not the snagging list.
20+
Years of experience
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UK & global partners
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Enquiry response, Mon to Fri
Builders first
What we build.
Refurbishments, extensions, conversions and new builds, residential and commercial, including commercial and industrial fit-out. We survey the job, price it line by line, manage it and build it under our own trade contracts: open book, at trade prices, with our margin stated rather than buried. One team owns the job from the first visit to the handover, instead of five trades each telling you a different story about whose fault the delay is.
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Refurbishments
Kitchens, bathrooms, rewires, roofs and whole houses taken back to brick, priced line by line from the building rather than from an average.
Cost yours →02
Extensions
More space on a building you already own, lofts included, with the professional fees and the contingency people leave out priced in from the start.
Cost yours →03
Conversions
Offices, barns, shops and pubs turned into homes, and houses into flats or HMOs, with the planning route and the VAT position worked out first.
Cost yours →04
New builds
From the ground to the handover: the substructure, the services, the drainage and the warranty, as well as the house.
Cost yours →How we build
Four stages, in order.
Survey and budget
We walk the job with you and write a tender ready schedule rather than a condition report, priced at the rates the trades who would do the work charge. The fee comes off the build if you appoint us.
Drawings, planning and price
Drawings and planning where the job needs them, from householder to change of use. Then the schedule goes to our own trades and comes back as a price, open book, with our margin stated as a percentage.
Build
Under our own trade contracts, with a site visit every week and one person answerable for the programme and the cost. Our estimate has to survive our own tender, and we publish the variance.
Handover and aftercare
A handover pack, the defects put right, and aftercare after that. If you want it sold or let once it is finished, the same team does that too.
Work we have built
Development Portfolio.
Projects we have developed and built ourselves over the years, and others where we held one link in the chain for a client: the build, the funding, the sourcing or the sale.
See the portfolio →
Around the build
The site, the money and the sale, too.
Most builds need something before the first trade arrives and something after the last one leaves. We do those as well, so the team that builds it can also find the site, arrange the funding, and sell or let it when it is finished, all from the same set of numbers.
Sourcing
Property and land, found and appraised, with an estimate for the works before the open market ever sees it
Read more →Finance
We connect you with the lender, and hold the deal together until it draws down
Read more →Exit
We help you choose the best exit and make it happen: flip, let, sale or lease, all on the table
Read more →Who runs it
Meet the leadership team.
Rory Soutwalk
Projects and Delivery Manager
Runs every build under our own trade contracts, on site every week.
Answers for the programme, the cost and the handover.
Vasile Alecu
Commercial and Client Manager
Prices the job before anybody is asked to commit to it.
Runs the sourcing, funding and sale that sit around the build.
Client Profile
Who we build for.
Homeowners
An extension, a loft, a new kitchen or the whole house taken back to brick, done once and done properly.
Private landlords
One flat or a small portfolio, held for the rent and for what it is worth in ten years.
Investors & developers
Buying to add value, from a first refurbishment to a portfolio of sites, here or from overseas.
Commercial owners
Offices, shops and industrial units, held as an investment or occupied by their own business.
Also from us
Marketplace.
Our residential and commercial property catalogue: for sale, to let, as a lease structured purchase, as a joint venture development, or as a deal shared privately. Where a property needs work, we price it and build it.
Most of what we buy never reaches this page. Tell us what you are after and the ones that fit reach you first.
International
Building abroad, run the way we build here.
We manage a development abroad the same way we do at home: on the ground, with a named local contractor we appoint and oversee in the market before we take a client into it. The sourcing, the finance and the sale travel with it.
Our international network →