We help busy professionals build an investment property portfolio.
We find the opportunities, manage the refurbishment, and handle the refinance to get your cash back out - or sell the property for a profit. All done in six to nine months, hands-off, with about two hours of your time.
Backed by twelve years and over £300 million of construction projects.
Who We Are
Between us we've spent twelve years in construction and delivered over £300 million of projects, with two MScs in project management and two APM qualifications behind us. That's the world we come from - where a week of delay costs more than most refurbishments, so everything is checked, priced and recorded before it happens.
Your project is run the same way. The work is priced before it starts, the prices are tested against each other, and nobody gets paid ahead of what's actually been built.
We invest in property ourselves, and have done for over five years. That is the half of this that most people in construction don't have, and the other half is that most people advising on property investment have never run a building site. The build is where the numbers on a spreadsheet either hold or fall apart, so being able to cost a project properly before you commit to it is the whole job.
What We Do
There are two ways to make money on a property. Improve it and refinance, so most of your cash comes back out while you keep the house and the rent - known as BRR, Buy Refurbish Refinance. Or improve it and sell it, and take the profit. We manage the full process on a turnkey basis and run all six stages below, typically in six to nine months.
We take on four client projects a quarter. Supervision is the product, and there is a limit to how much of it two people can give properly.
We identify properties with genuine value-add potential - verified against comparable evidence and market data.
Every opportunity is stress-tested across purchase price, works budget, rental income and end value before it reaches you. If you don't like what you see, we keep looking.
If you're buying with a mortgage, we put you in front of brokers who lend on this kind of project - then manage them, the solicitor and the surveyor through to completion.
Works are scoped, tendered, programmed and supervised with the same discipline used on major commercial construction projects - staged payments, tracked variations, risk management, no blank cheques.
The works complete and we hand the property over to you, with compliance certificates, warranties, drawings and accounts in order - tenant-ready if you're holding, sale-ready if you're not.
Where you're holding, we manage the revaluation and refinance to return as much of your capital as possible. Where you're selling, we manage the sale through to completion.
Recent Projects
A recent completion, and two acquisitions currently in progress.
1-bed flat converted into a 2-bed. Completed and sold for a private client. Cash purchase.
Thames Water closed the road for mains work. For weeks there were limited deliveries to the door and nowhere for trades to park. We re-sequenced the programme and booked materials and trades around the closure, so the job kept moving instead of the costs.
3-bed house into a licensed 6-bed HMO. Cash requirement reduced by using both bridging and development finance.
4-bed house into a licensed 6-bed HMO.
The end values shown on the live projects are formal lender's valuations, not our own estimates. Both matched our appraisal.
All other figures on those two projects are forecasts from our appraisal and will be confirmed on completion.
Across all three, client involvement has been around two hours.
Figures are those achieved on this specific project and are published with the client's consent. Past performance is not a guide to future results; every project differs by property, market and finance structure.
How We Work
Refurbishments come unstuck in two places: the money, and whether anyone is actually watching the work.
Both of those are ours to hold, and everything below sets out how.
You will have a written update every fortnight from the day the build starts.
Every cost is agreed with you in writing before it is committed. Anything instructed without that approval is at our cost rather than yours.
Payments go directly from you to the contractor, the supplier or the solicitor. We hold none of it at any stage.
If we have not put a property in front of you that meets your written criteria within eight weeks, the first instalment of our fee is returned.
If a survey or a valuation shows that a deal no longer works, we say so and source the next one at no further charge.
One fee, quoted on the call, in writing, and fixed from that point. It is complete at practical completion of the works, and the refinance or sale support that follows is included.
Third-party and project costs sit outside our fee. They are identified and agreed before you commit, never discovered afterwards. Every budget carries a contingency, sized to the property; if it isn't needed, it stays yours.
Who We Work With
First property or fifteenth - both work. Some beginners may require more of our time at the appraisal stage; experienced investors usually want the delivery and little else.
Why Investors Choose This
High income is taxed hard and stops the day they stop. Assets carry on without them, and that is what people are really buying.
Money in a savings account loses purchasing power every year it waits. They already know this. That's the uncomfortable part.
Most people who come to us worked out years ago that property makes sense. What stopped them was the uncertainty.
Buying well gives them a head start. What happens over the following six months is the part we can control - scoped, tendered, supervised, and nobody paid ahead of progress.
In Their Words
“Vince was patient and found strategies that would suit my goals. I'd recommend him to others considering property investment.”Arun
“Vince and Lina were amazing right from the start. I'd recommend them for their vision and passion for what they do - can't wait for the next project.”Private client · North London
“Their support throughout the process was exceptional. A high standard of service that is truly unmatched.”Cecilia
Questions & Answers
You approve the deal, the works and the refinance or sale. Everything in between is ours to manage, including the problems.
Yes. Title is in your name or your company's from completion. We never hold your money and we never hold the asset.
About two hours in total. Signing documents and minor admin. We handle everything else.
Six to nine months from offer accepted to refinance or sale. You get a structured programme before you commit. By the end the property is in your name, it is producing rent, and most of the cash you put in has come back out to be used again.
It depends on the property, so we won't quote a headline percentage before we've found you one. What you get before committing a pound is the full appraisal - purchase, works, end value, refinance - with the evidence behind every figure. If a project doesn't stack up on paper, we don't bring it to you. On our last completed project, £240,000 went in and £350,000 came out.
Every budget carries a contingency, and if it isn't spent it stays yours. The scope is fixed and priced before anyone starts, and payments are released against progress. Anything unforeseen is priced and approved by you in writing before the work happens, and anything instructed without that approval is at our cost rather than yours.