Asset types · Segment B / C
Portfolios and residential blocks
Who owns it
Commercially minded. Usually a company or a family holding, running the numbers and tired of the regulatory direction of travel.
Who takes it
Operators with the balance sheet to take a whole building, plus corporate providers and local authorities looking for blocks of supply.
Cycle and fee
Longer cycle, materially larger fee, and the segment that most justifies the network existing at all.
The decision
What the owner is actually weighing up
Managing ten tenancies is ten times the administration for the same building. A block owner wants one agreement, one counterparty and one payment date.
Our approach
What we do with it
- Treat the building as one instruction rather than a set of units, because that is what makes it attractive to the operators who can actually absorb it.
- Establish use class and any planning history early. It determines the operator pool more than the rent does.
- Where a portfolio owner is testing us, we take one property first and earn the rest. Winning one owner here wins several assets.
The assessment
What we ask about this asset class
These are the questions that separate a serious enquiry from a curious one, and no consumer lettings form asks them.
- Single ownership or split freehold
- Unit mix and current occupancy
- Existing management arrangement and notice terms
- Planning history and current use class
Find out what an operator would do with it
We respond within five minutes in working hours, same day otherwise, and we tell you when the answer is no.
Other asset types
Single units
One apartment or house, let or vacant, where the owner wants certainty rather than the best possible month. The smallest thing we take on, and not the only thing.
Hotels and serviced apartments
Hotels, aparthotels and serviced apartment buildings, C1, that are underperforming or vacant, where the owner wants an operator rather than a buyer.
Student accommodation
Purpose-built student schemes and HMOs at scale, where the operator pool is small, knowable and highly specific about who runs it.