Over the past couple of years, it has felt like a bit of a rates (ahem) to the bottom in terms of how much debt will cost you. By reducing rates or by keeping them the same and increasing leverage beyond 70%, development finance lenders have been making debt...
Achieving a planning gain can be very profitable, whether you’re a developer who’s purchased a site unconditionally or taken an option, or a promoter working with a landowner. In the UK, there’s nowhere near enough land with planning permission to satisfy demand for...
Have you ever missed out on a really great opportunity because all your capital was tied up elsewhere? If you have, you’re not the only one. This is a common problem for SME developers. Luckily, there’s a solution: getting finance that covers 100% of your development...
What does it mean to build a legacy? To answer that question, one story we can look to is heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury’s. Not that you’d know it from his public pronouncements on the question of legacy. ‘History to me means nothing’, Fury stated in an...
I arrived at my first Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) class feeling excited and only a little apprehensive. I’d seen videos of BJJ competitions and MMA bouts so I had a vague understanding that it involved rolling around on the ground with your opponent while trying to get...
If you work in the development industry, you’re likely to have heard the phrase, “skin in the game”. Developers, professionals, brokers: everyone’s expected to have it. But what does skin in the game actually mean? Essentially, it means having something to lose in a...
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