Services
Site Disposals

Services
Site Disposals

The process of selling land is an involved process and requires a detailed understanding of the background and process to have been undertaken to ensure the sale runs as smoothly as it possibly can be.

The marketing and sale strategy will be determined principally by market conditions at the time but also the level of detail and conditionality that may be involved in each transaction. In most instances, the housebuilders preference is to acquire land when it is sold on the open market on a ‘conditional basis’ i.e. with the benefit of outline/detailed permission or reserved matters approval.

Conditional deals allow housebuilders to work through the planning/reserved matters stage, to reduce their risks. The process can be an arduous one. Acquiring land when all consents are in place means the housebuilder does not lay out all the funds for acquisition and therefore does not incur holding costs while they pursue detailed/reserved matters permission.

Sites are generally offered to the market on an informal tender basis. If outline planning permission has already been achieved, a detailed information pack will be prepared and made available on our Extranet site to allow interested parties to fully appraise the site.

A full understanding of the technical basis is essential to enable us to address issues raised by interested parties and to negotiate especially where they have ‘over-estimated’ the risks or costs involved.

Information packs will include all planning documentation such as (but not limited to) planning statement, design and access statement, surveys in respect of arboriculture, ecology, archaeology, heritage, noise, air, ground conditions, landscape, flood risk and environmental impact assessments.

Once the purchase price has been agreed after the housebuilder has accounted for all of the costs associated with delivering the planning permission, detailed heads of terms will be prepared to capture the financial arrangements of the agreement and to set out any conditionality, obligations, reservations, timescales etc for exchange and completion together with any overage provisions that may be applicable.

Our role continues throughout the contract stage to ensure the agreed terms are reflected in the contract.

The quality of the information pack is imperative in ensuring that timescales for the submission of offers and the ultimate negotiation on technical matters are kept to an absolute minimum. Given the role that we have undertaken in many of the sites through the project management process, the sales process becomes more straightforward because we already have a full and detailed understanding of the site and its technical constraints.

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"Hawksmoor were initially suggested to us by an existing client as being a reliable specialist company who would help us gain the optimum value from our property and they have lived up to this recommendation. We were kept fully informed and involved throughout the marketing and a deal was achieved in an imaginative way and the process explained to us professionally and patiently. We are very satisfied with the outcome and would not hesitate to recommend Hawksmoor."

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