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Estate Management by Fowler Fortescue – Independent Chartered Surveyors specialising in Rural Asset, Land & Estate Management

Estate Management

Management of the estate in accordance with owner’s values

Property Management by Fowler Fortescue – Independent Chartered Surveyors specialising in Rural Asset, Land & Estate Management

Property Management

Looking after landlord and tenant matters across all residential, commercial and agricultural property.

Asset Planning by Fowler Fortescue – Independent Chartered Surveyors specialising in Rural Asset, Land & Estate Management

Asset Planning & Development

Scoping out all strategic opportunities and turning them into reality

Professional Consulting by Fowler Fortescue – Independent Chartered Surveyors specialising in Rural Asset, Land & Estate Management

Professional Services

Providing the role of the trusted advisor

Account Management

Efficient financial record keeping to produce accurate reporting to facilitate decision making

Natural Capital by Fowler Fortescue – Independent Chartered Surveyors specialising in Rural Asset, Land & Estate Management

Natural Capital

Bespoke expert advice on emerging public and private nature-based solutions

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

Estate Management by Fowler Fortescue – Independent Chartered Surveyors specialising in Rural Asset, Land & Estate 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

Property Management by Fowler Fortescue – Independent Chartered Surveyors specialising in Rural Asset, Land & Estate Management
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

Asset Planning by Fowler Fortescue – Independent Chartered Surveyors specialising in Rural Asset, Land & Estate Management
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

Professional Consulting by Fowler Fortescue – Independent Chartered Surveyors specialising in Rural Asset, Land & Estate Management
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

Natural Capital by Fowler Fortescue – Independent Chartered Surveyors specialising in Rural Asset, Land & Estate Management
Our Projects

Case Studies

Estate performance is built over time through joined-up oversight and informed decision-making. Each project reflects a considered approach, shaped by the specific structure, priorities and long-term direction of an estate.

Read a selection of our case studies

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Decisions around an estate carry long-term consequences.

A considered approach begins with a conversation.