Our Expertise
Estate Management
- Formulation and implementation of bespoke strategic estate management plans
- Estate administration
- Landlord and tenant matters
- Management of in-hand businesses including farming, shooting and leisure
- Practical implementation of health and safety policy across Estates
- Diversification
- Trustee and directorship roles
- Project management
Our Expertise
Property Management
- Maintaining and monitoring a compliance register to ensure compliance requirements are met
- Implementing repair and maintenance programmes
- Instruct contractors and monitor progress
- Preparation and review of property management budgets
- Letting of vacant property, including marketing, viewings, tenancy documentation and rent reviews where applicable
Our Expertise
Asset Planning & Development
- Strategic Planning – including identifying opportunities and advising on the optimisation of estate assets such as redevelopment, alternative uses, diversification and disposals, with consideration of associated implications including tax
- Development opportunities arising from the overarching estate strategy – from Class Q barn conversions to large-scale projects, including residential development, renewable schemes, mineral extraction and leisure or commercial uses
- A holistic approach to estate planning – balancing natural capital opportunities versus potential future development
Our Expertise
Professional Services
- Strategic sale and purchase of freehold and leasehold property, from individual parcels of land to whole estates
- Property valuations for purchase, insurance, probate, financial and taxation purposes
- HR advice and management
- Creation, development and implementation of in-hand businesses
- Advice on compulsory purchase, wayleaves and easements
- Natural capital opportunities across the short and long term
- Renewable energy schemes
Our Expertise
Account Management
- Preparation of accounts to financial statement level
- Consolidated reporting for estates with multiple entities, including cash flow management across the estate
- Bookkeeping for the estate and in-hand trading businesses, including drawings where appropriate
- Maintenance of VAT records and submission of returns
- Monthly payroll, including HMRC reporting
- Preparation of budgets, cashflows and reconciled management accounts
- Certification of invoices and arrangement for payments
- Rent collection, including direct debit services
- RICS Client Money Protection: participation in a government-approved CMP scheme
Our Expertise
Natural Capital
- In-house natural capital and nature-based solutions advisory
- Support in navigating the complexities of natural capital and nature-based solutions markets
- Identification of appropriate public and private finance options
- Natural capital planning and strategy development
- Data management and governance, including mapping, monitoring and verifying of environmental change
- Ensuring compliance with regulations and legislation and alignment with emerging policy direction
- Access to a wide network of specialist advisors including hydrologists and ecologists
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