From ground-up development to the careful restoration of historic fabric, our development practice is the operating expression of our investment thesis. Architecture, construction, and asset management considered as one continuous discipline.
Residential and mixed-use schemes built to a long-hold standard. We engage architects whose work we admire and main contractors whose accounts we know intimately. Programmes are managed by our in-house development directors from concept to handover.
Stone, brick, lime, and timber. We restore listed and protected buildings to standards agreed in advance with the relevant heritage authorities. Where original fabric can be saved, we save it.
Industrial buildings, post-war stock, and tired office assets brought up to a current residential or hospitality standard. Mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and envelope retrofits sized for the next quarter of a century.
In-house management of the residential, hospitality, and mixed-use assets we develop. Reservations, leasing, capex planning, and tenant relationships all sit on the same platform that built the asset.
A structural, archival, and material survey before architecture is drawn. The building tells us what it can become before we tell it what to be.
Programme written with leasing and operations in the room. Concept design developed with the appointed architect, tested against the standard we set for the building's long life.
Engagement with planning, heritage, and engineering consultants. Construction documents drawn to a standard that survives a procurement audit.
Two-stage tendering with a shortlist of trusted main contractors. Cost control, programme, and quality monitored weekly by an in-house development director.
A measured handover into our operating platform. Ten-year capex plans and maintenance protocols agreed before the first tenant moves in.
A working relationship with planners, conservation officers, and listed-building inspectors is built one project at a time. We have done it before; we will do it again.
We will engage Spanish and Italian contractors, surveyors, and architects on the ground — and hold the work to the standards we have used at home for a quarter of a century.
Markets cycle. Cost bases shift. The discipline that has carried us through twenty-five years is the willingness to keep a building under our care until the work is done and the building is ready for its next chapter.