UK Residential Property Services
Click on the service title to find out exactly what we can do for you or click on the contact to contact usAffordable Housing
The CBRE Affordable team can 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 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 appraisal planning policy review
- Affordable and market valuation advice
- Planning and mixed-use development advice
- Advice on affordable housing within regeneration schemes
- Securing NAHP or other grant funding
- Identification of potential grant subsidy (NAHP, RCGF or local authority)
- Design, specification and Code for Sustainable Homes advice
- Section 106 affordable housing negotiation
- Residual Value Analysis
- Agency sale to a Registered Social Landlord
- Management of the housing association/developer/local authority interface
- Agreement of Heads of Terms for purchase of the completed homes
- Estate management, Local Letting Agreements and leasehold management advice
- Site identification and acquisition
- Viability studies
Student Housing
The CBRE specialist Student Housing team offer our clients a range of services, commitment and depth of experience that can be matched by few property consultancies.We deliver added value for our clients, be they developers, universities, investors or funders, through our integrated team of specialists that focus strategically on all aspects of opportunity afforded by the sector.
Key Services
- Development consultancy design, specification, unit mix, cost planning
- Deal structures - Nomination Agreement and lease negotiations
- Management arrangements hard and soft FM
- Valuation for funding, acquisition and investment
- Development finance debt and equity
- Joint ventures opportunities
- Building consultancy, contractor procurement & project management
- Investment sales and acquisitions
- Site identification, sales and acquisition
- Planning appraisal, policy review and applications
Project Management
CBRE 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
Regeneration - Sarah Whitney
CBRE’s Regeneration 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 ensuring you squeeze maximum value from them. 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.
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
Sales and Marketing
Our team is dedicated to providing a complete sales and marketing consultancy service, working closely with our clients from conception of a scheme to completion. Our unique service adds value to schemes via a wide range of individually tailored solutions, whether they be for major regeneration projects, mixed use schemes or international developments.
Key Services
- Pricing
- Design advice
- Value engineering
- Bulk Sales
- Sales & marketing
- Structuring of JV partnerships
- International consultancy
Land Agency - Jasper Masters
CBRE’s 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.. And, 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, including:
- Acquiring residential-led development opportunities
- Securing sites to enhance client portfolios
- Extensive in-house link to know all the sites available, and the agents
- Identification of opportunities, both on and off market
- Market expertise across the country
- Land sales, including:
- 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.
Development and Investment Funding - Chris Lacey
Residential property will always offer opportunities for both developers and investors. But, when the market fluctuates, those opportunities can be harder to realise. We have the experience, resources and contacts to help you profit from residential property, whatever the market conditions.
The team consists of market leading experts, and advises small private developers and investors to large scale corporate bodies throughout the UK. Our advice helps clients maximise the value of existing sites, properties and portfolios as well as expand through acquisition and funding initiatives.
Key Services
- Sales and acquisitions of built or off-plan property
- Development and investment financial consultancy
- Securing financing for land investment or development
- Diversification of portfolios
- Building cashflows and minimising risk
- Influencing lending
- Raising equity
Residential Planning
CBRE’s 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 us a significant opportunity to influence planning strategy to your advantage.
Key Services
- Devising planning strategies
- Advice on securing permissions
- Managing the planning application process
- Project management of consultants throughout the planning process
- S106 - legal agreements and obligations
- Influencing the development plan
Residential Research
CBRE’s Residential Research team understands 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 CBRE’s 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
Sustainability
CBRE’s 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 help you meet sustainability targets without unnecessary complication and cost.
Key Services
- 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
Valuation - Jason Hardman
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. 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
- Valuations for funds and investment portfolios
- Financing advice to assist lending decisions
- Valuation of mixed use development sites
- Valuation for Loan Security
Development Consultancy
The CBRE Development Consultancy team has the vision, drive and experience to help you deliver places people want to live in, work in and invest in. We help clients build thriving communities by focusing not just on the buildings, but the people and the way they relate to them. Throughout, we offer expert advice, practical support and proven, integrated methodology to create cohesive places that deliver profits.
Key Services
- Securing the vision and deliverable masterplan
- Planning
- Community engagement
- Ensuring a balanced mix of uses and tenure
- Practical market-facing real estate advice which achieves optimum value
- Working with local the local community to provide employment, allocation of social housing and lettings strategies
- Management of communication throughout the development
- Marketing (including assessment, pre-marketing, administrative management and Post-marketing)
- After sales service (including pre-delivery of dwellings, Deed registration, Post-registration)
Central London
The Central London residential market is world class; presenting a wide range of opportunities and attracting a global audience of developers, investors and occupiers. However, Central London residential development can be complicated with a variety of issues affecting schemes; getting the balance right between the mix of private, public and commercial uses can make or break a project. The CBRE Central London Residential team has the proven experience and know how to navigate through all these issues and deliver successful schemes and solutions for you.
Key Services
- Identification of transaction opportunities both on and off market
- Advice on large scale portfolio or individual unit transactions
- Site viability and feasibility appraisals
- Bespoke, targeted or global marketing campaigns
- Proven transaction processes to ensure the deal closes
- Securing straight sales, joint ventures or development agreements
- Marketing conditional or unconditional transactions to the maximise client returns
- Development consultancy
- End sales on a block, investment or unit by unit basis
Placemaking - Trevor Nicholson
The essential link between design and profit
To maximise value in large schemes, particularly in challenging locations, the fundamental aim for developers must be to make a place in which people want to live.
The importance of Placemaking is growing, climbing up the agenda of all those planning large-scale, residential-led development. It is becoming increasingly relevant as we look at new ways of establishing a community, not just as a result of a difficult financial and economic climate, but as we generally strive to adopt a greater sense of responsibility; to quality, to the environment, to the now highly discerning end-user.
Working alongside the clients’ design team, the CBRE Placemaking team can help to generate additional real estate value by considering the site and location in terms of the way they will be perceived and enjoyed by residents, commercial occupiers and visitors. Our Placemaking service advises the developer from land acquisition right through to the final unit sale.
Key Services
- Sanity checking existing Masterplans for Placemaking elements
- Sanity checking existing Masterplans for target market identification and viability
- Scope of Works identification for new residential land projects, demonstrating maximisation of site value
- Real Estate Market report and Placemaking strategy for schemes over 100 units
- Development land options assessment and value appraisal with recommendations of how to ‘make a place’
- Project Marketing appraisal and target market strategy for the completed units
- Onsite unit sales