How to Get Planning Gain Finance

How to Get Planning Gain Finance

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...
Building a Legacy, Tyson Fury Style

Building a Legacy, Tyson Fury Style

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...
Skin in the Game

Skin in the Game

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...
Introduction to Development Finance

Introduction to Development Finance

For many property developers, no matter how experienced they may be, the prospect of sourcing funding for their next development scheme can elicit any number of negative emotions. The lending landscape is always changing, the due diligence process is long and can be...