HOW WE WORK

As a guidance:

- We identify your criteria and match it against what is available

- We identify budgets, expectations and adopt a model based on client needs and manage expectations within market conditions

- We personally view properties with you and learn from your views and you will learn from our 20 years of experience instantly and in real time

- We work alongside your professional advisors

- We identify, negotiate and execute

- Being lawyers helps as we explain with your lawyers the legal process thoroughly and explain the unusual legal process of buying subject to contract in English Law

- We always recommend that surveys are carried out for both commercial and residential transactions and often use valuations as negotiating tools

- We explain the value of both RICS Red book and open values as against sales pricing so that we optimise the negotiations on your behalf prior to signing or paying over monies

- As a general rule, make bids and conduct due diligence early on in analyzing data rooms

- We comment on leasehold and freehold titles early on and on new developments we analyse social housing rations affects on pricing, developers track record and pre pack legal documentation and completion targets

HOW WE CHARGE

- No up front fees

- We are only paid on completion

- We work on successful transactions because we believe in what we do

- We charge 2% plus vat for residential transactions

- We charge 1% plus vat on commercial transactions

- International acquisitions are negotiable

- We attend to completion and post completion matters and offer complimentary change over and administrative tasks

- In commercial transactions we now offer asset management with quarterly reports and propose regular meetings with Landlords and tenants

AREAS

COMMERCIAL
- Our advisory role is key and we forensically examine, rental yields, strength of tenancies, lending security criteria, capital allowances, asset management and planning. All of which determine the strength of the asset and of the covenants for investment purposes.
 
- Full transactional evidence and analysis is provided to all of our clients and we work along side RICS valuers and other professionals in working through business models, thus managing expectations.
RESIDENTIAL
- Whether a residential property is being purchased as first or second home or whether it is being bought as an investment the criteria is firmly on our mind in arriving at the right choice and at the right price.
 
- We often provide advice and opinions on new build versus 'Classic London', literally analysing every tube zone area within the M25 to the South East, as well as the rest of the UK. Over the next 4 years Cross Rail is firmly on our advisory agenda as well as all the potential tax implications on owning property in the UK working alongside leading professionals to insure that the best advice is provided.
INTERNATIONAL

- We have been fortunate enough to have worked outside the UK. We are able to identify all the issues and problems that foreign clients face in their home jurisdictions and have gone one step further and actually worked and transacted in most.

- Whether it be mainland Europe, Africa, China or South America, we have been able to assist our clients and this in turn has given us a deeper understanding of international client needs.