CB Richard Ellis Affordable and Student Housing Development team support you at every stage of development, from the initial vision to the sale and management of a completed scheme, making sure you achieve maximum value throughout. Our focus is on delivering affordable, mixed use and student housing schemes that work. Not just for the people developing them and investing in them. But for the people living in and around them - helping create places where people want to be.

Key Services

• Site reviews – planning policy and financial viability appraisals
• Affordable, student, market housing and mixed use valuation advice
• Affordable and student housing as part of regeneration projects
• Funding, investment and joint venture opportunities
• Securing NAHP or other grant funding
• Design, mix, specification and Sustainable Homes advice
• Section 106 affordable housing negotiation and residual valuation appraisals
• Pre-sale of affordable housing to a Registred Social Landlord Pre-sale of student housing to specialist fund / investors
• Site sale and acquisition

CB Richard Ellis Project Management team is made up from a varied experience base to provide deep and diverse technical expertise across the UK. We are also in the unique position of being immersed in a property environment, we’re not just advisors – we’re commercial professionals too. We understand how our advice will impact on your business model, investment strategy or balance sheet. And we’re always driven by a desire to get the best for our clients.

Key Services

• Pre and post planning project management
• Value enhancement
• Full development management – including all consultants, stakeholders and design team members
• Capability throughout the UK
• Sustainable design

CB Richard Ellis Development Consultancy Team knows what it takes to create a successful residential or mixed-use development. With our vast experience of working with local authorities, government bodies and regional development agencies, we can act as the client’s eyes and ears on the most ambitious regeneration schemes. Our technical and market knowledge enables us to assemble teams with the right expertise at the right time. And our political insight lets us guide private clients through complex public sector issues and procedures.

For feasibility and site assembly, from acquisitions to disposals, public/private partnerships and estate regeneration, we can provide a steer and draw in expertise to help you squeeze maximum value out of your residentially-led schemes.

Key Services

• Regeneration advice
• Public sector consultancy
• Research
• Masterplanning and feasibility
• Securing development partners
• Affordable housing
• Financial appraisals
• Structuring development agreements
• Acquisition & disposal
• Site assembly
• Compulsory purchase advice

The Residential Development Consultancy team is dedicated to providing a complete sales and marketing consultancy service, working closely with our clients from conception of a scheme to completion. From the first stage of the development process we provide independent, unbiased sales figures for end units upon which bids and financial models can be reliably based. Our value engineering will stream line any development and can be implemented at the initial stages of the design process. This process is developed from a complete understanding of target market and local conditions supported by our teams experience, knowledge and research. This includes detailed advice on unit mix, unit sizes, spatial planning and recommended specification. All these factors can maximise revenue and greatly improve saleability.

Key Services

• UK / International Sales and Marketing
• UK / International Development Consultancy
• Market Research
• Pricing
• Design advice
• Value engineering
• Bulk Sales
• Structuring of JV partnerships

CB Richard Ellis’ land agency team is immersed in the market, day-in, day-out. We don’t just know where the land is and what it’s worth. We know the people who will decide its future. Extensive links with corporates and agents nationwide help us find sites that offer the right opportunities for residential development, with the greatest potential to add value. We also represent major landowners and portfolio owners, packaging and marketing residential development sites to achieve the maximum possible value. Also, because we work with institutional investors, house builders, property companies, outsourcing companies, the public sector, corporates, private individuals and charities, we have an unrivalled understanding of deal structures. When negotiations are tough, we can often find a new approach that will lead to an agreement. Whether we’re working alone, or pulling in expertise from across the company, we always have one clear objective – getting you the best deal.

Key Services

• Land acquisitions
  • Acquiring residential-led development
  • Securing sites to enhance client portfolios
  • Identification of opportunities, both on and off market
  • Market expertise across the country
• Land sales
  • Proven track record in selling residential and residential-led sites
  • Residential development consultancy
  • Expertise in working for major landowners and portfolio owners
  • Bespoke and targeted marketing campaigns
  • Unrivalled knowledge in disposing of sites both with and without planning permission.

Intelligent and innovative funding is the foundation of any successful development particularly given the changing economic climate. What makes us different is the way that we apply and present sophisticated financial structures – from experience developed in the commercial sector - to residential and mixed use development. Together with our residential expertise this commercial edge lets us build deliverable financial solutions that have superseded traditional ideas.

Key Services

• Sourcing - stock & finance (equity and debt)
• Modelling - geared cash-flows 8 developing business plans
• Exit routes - Analyse multiple options including build to let, land joint ventures and alternative uses
• Joint Ventures – between investors, developers and funders, including forward commitments to purchase

CB Richard Ellis’ planning consultants are experts in the complex planning system, forming a vital link between developers and local authorities, helping to inform policy and achieve the consents needed to bring visions to life. Our trusted position, commercial acumen, political knowledge and ability to produce robust evidence gives you a significant opportunity to influence planning strategy and deliver development.

Key Services

• Devising planning strategies
• Securing permissions
• Managing the planning application process
• Project management of consultants throughout the planning process
• Negotiating S106 and legal agreements
• Influencing the development plan

CB Richard Ellis Residential Research team understand your decisions are only ever as good as the information they’re based on. We can provide market or bespoke reports to help inform decisions at every stage of the development lifecycle, from acquiring the land to selling completed homes.

Our research helps you answer your questions, by identifying opportunities and gaps in the market, keeping track of market movements or making sure that your development strategy is in line with customer demand. With access to CB Richard Ellis’ international network of expertise and coal-face market knowledge, our research provides the intelligence you need to get your decisions right.

Key Services Full service provision for the creation of a new place including;

• Production of bespoke reports – market or site specific
• Sector specific reports eg students, the elderly, affordable housing or luxury housing
• Insight to wider industry issues such as green and sustainability, planning and government policies
• Quarterly market reviews

CB Richard Ellis Residential Investment Team has the experience, resources and contacts to help you profit from residential investment, whatever the market conditions. We are able to take both short and long-term views on your investments, looking at ways of building your position, increasing the value of your properties through further investment, development or devising future disposal strategies.

You don’t just benefit from our expertise. All our advice is supported by our in-house residential teams including development, valuation, funding and research. And, thanks to our excellent links with buyers and sellers around the world, backed-up by leading agency services through the CB Richard Ellis and Hampton’s International partnership, we offer a definitive end-to-end service for all your residential property investments.

Key Services

• Sales and acquisitions of investments and off plan opportunities
• Diversification of portfolios
• Value add through in-house expertise such as funding, research and estate agency
• International reach enables attraction of investors from new markets
• Sale and acquisition of units throughout the development cycle

CB Richard Ellis’ Energy & Sustainability team provides a vital interface between clients, architects, planners and other professionals. We understand the key strategic issues and deliver sensible, commercially-relevant advice to help you achieve your objectives and manage your reputation.

Our expert team includes technical and engineering capability as well as financial, planning and marketing expertise. Working together, we find solutions that suit your site and your pocket and will help to safeguard the value of your residential developments in years to come.

Key Services

• Delivering innovative but practical sustainable design and construction solutions
• Supporting developers through the planning process, minimising risk and delays
• Strategy and tactics for environmentally sustainable solutions
• Development of KPIs and targets – internal and external
• Advice on BREEAM, Code for Sustainable Homes, LEED and other international sustainability accreditation schemes
• Delivery of clean technology solutions and financing advice

Our expert residential valuation team provides informed, independent advice on a whole range of property interests, from one-off valuations of prestige homes, small to medium sized residential developments and large scale mixed use regeneration projects. Funders, landowners, developers and investors need credible assessment of risk – our impartial valuation advice provides confidence in purchase, sale or lending decisions, whatever the market conditions.

What sets us apart is quality – both of our service and of our advice. Without breaching client confidentiality, we can draw on the specialist knowledge of our CBRE colleagues, including agency, development consultancy, regeneration, planning, affordable housing, loan recovery and research teams. With over 195 valuers nationwide, and consistent management processes in place, we can value large portfolios quickly and frequently, without cutting corners.

Key Services

• One off valuations of houses and flats
• Valuation of Country Houses and estates
• Valuations for funds and investment portfolios
• Financing advice to assist lending decisions
• Valuation of mixed use development sites
• loan book portfolios
• Distressed / Special Servicing advice

CB Richard Ellis provides residential & mixed-use advice to commercial and public sector clients, offering a multi-disciplinary approach that can effectively meet and balance the residential and commercial demands of any project. We work closely with Hamptons International, providing advice on a range of specialist subjects, from affordable housing strategies to estate management planning. In addition, our regional offices deliver local land brokerage services UK wide, as well as across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Key Services

• Affordable housing
• Residential development within the mixed use environment
• Identification of development partners and associated joint venture structures
• Acquisition or sale of residential buildings and land
• Increasing value through optimising densities and configuration
• Controlling costs through improved design efficiency
• Marketing and global sales strategies
• Estate management
• Market research and commentary (please use find a report link)
• Development advisory (including market diagnosis, Strategic analysis of markets, urban planning studies and consultations, Purchase support reports, Market studies, Development consultancy, Master planning, Project management / monitoring)
• Marketing (including assessment, pre-marketing, administrative management and Post-marketing)
• After sales service (including pre-delivery of dwellings, Deed registration, Post-registration)