Acquisition & sourcing
The properties others discount.
A poor energy rating narrows the buyer pool and widens the discount. That gap is our entry point — which is why the stock most purchasers avoid is the stock we actively look for.
How we source
Seven routes to a property.
No single channel produces enough of the right stock, so we work all of them. The best purchases are usually the ones that never reached a portal.
Estate agents
Established relationships with agents who know which of their instructions need work rather than a price reduction.
Property auctions
Where condition, tenure or a short timescale has already narrowed the buyer pool.
Direct to vendor
Owners who approach us themselves, usually because a sale through the open market would mean doing the work first.
Property sourcing networks
Sourcers and deal packagers who understand the specification we buy to.
Developers
Schemes where a retrofit or refurbishment is the value driver rather than new build.
Local authority opportunities
Bringing failing, empty or non-compliant stock back into use, in partnership where that route is available.
Off-market opportunities
Properties that never reach a portal, introduced through the network we have built.
We operate across United Kingdom, with a primary focus on London, South East, Midlands, North West, North East, Scotland and Wales. Available for nationwide property acquisitions and management.
How we assess
Six tests, and a property has to pass all of them.
Any one of these can end a deal on its own. A property that only works if you ignore one of them is not a property that works.
- 01
Location
The fundamentals that no amount of refurbishment can change — transport, employment, schools and the direction the immediate area is travelling in.
- 02
Capital growth potential
What the property could reasonably be worth once the work is done, judged against real comparable evidence rather than optimism.
- 03
Rental demand
Genuine, evidenced demand for the type of accommodation the finished property will provide.
- 04
Refurbishment requirements
The full scope of works, priced before exchange rather than discovered afterwards.
- 05
EPC improvement potential
How far the energy rating can realistically be moved, and what it costs to move it. A property that cannot be improved sensibly is not a property for us.
- 06
Financial viability
The purchase, the works, the finance and the exit, modelled together. If the numbers only work in the best case, they do not work.
What we look for
Our buying criteria.
- EPC band D to G, or no valid certificate at all
- Structurally sound, with a fabric problem that has a known solution
- Genuine rental and resale demand in the immediate area
- Probate and inherited property, tired rentals, unmodernised stock, portfolio exits, chain breaks
What we don't buy
Where we say no.
Publishing this is deliberate. A buyer with no exclusions is a buyer with no strategy, and knowing early that we are not the right home for your property saves you more than a polite maybe would.
- Properties with unresolved structural movement or subsidence
- Short leaseholds where the lease cannot be extended on sensible terms
- Anything where the refurbishment cost exceeds the value it would create
The process
From first message to completion.
Enquiry
You tell us the address, the rough condition and your timescale. No viewing needed to start the conversation.
Desktop appraisal
We check the EPC record, comparable values, tenure and local demand before we take up any of your time.
Viewing and survey
A visit to establish what the fabric actually needs, so the offer reflects the real scope rather than a guess.
Offer
A written offer with the reasoning shown — what we think it is worth, what we think it needs, and how we got there.
Exchange and completion
Usually chain-free, on a timescale that suits you rather than one dictated by a chain above us.
For investors
Sourcing to a brief.
We also acquire to a client brief — a defined location, property type, budget and target rating — and run the same underwriting we would on our own purchases. The appraisal is shared in full before anything is committed.
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