Property Development Training Courses

Our training courses give you the essential insider knowledge that you need to find the most profitable sites and add maximum value to your projects, with minimum risk

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Development fundamentals

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A high-level overview of the proven 7-step process industry insiders use to shortcut their property development success.

Understand the 7 key steps industry insiders use to identify real off-market land, assess and secure the best deals and win optimised planning permission as quickly as possible.

Let us show you the exact path to creating the most value from every potential development opportunity. Our proven step-by-step Insider System™ takes you through the complete journey from sourcing the best deals to scheme design and optimisation, to winning the best planning permission and beyond.

  • Gain a top-level view of what it takes to find and secure sites with great development potential and take them through the planning process
  • Understand how to quickly assess the potential of a deal to save hours of time, effort and money and give you a head start on other developers
  • Discover what's required to design the best possible scheme for any site or building, create maximum value with minimal risk, and get your scheme or proposal through planning as quickly as possible.
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Master the essentials of securing real off-market opportunities, from identification to successfully approaching landowners.

Discover everything you need to find real 100% off-market land, buildings and development opportunities, approach and negotiate with owners directly (in the right way), and never miss another deal.

Whether you’re a sourcer/land agent, SME or larger property developer, switch on your radar to monetise opportunities around you every day (even if you have zero to little funds). Let us hand you all the templates, processes and knowhow to get highly lucrative land deals over the line.

For developers:

  • Thoroughly understand exactly how the land market, the development process and the UK Planning System really work (it’s not what most people think)
  • Learn how to identify all the different types of development potential, sites, buildings and planning options that can combine to make a deal
  • Drill down into the fine detail of what to look for, how and where
  • How to quickly research and assess opportunities (avoid wasting time and money on unprofitable or potentially weak deals)
  • Discover the make-or-break dos and don’ts for approaching landowners and the other key people involved in creating a potential deal

For sourcers and land agents:

  • Discover how to professionally package opportunities and find the best buyers to introduce deals to or JV with
  • Learn the industry insider’s method for quickly introducing a site that protects your position 100% and guarantees you get paid (no NDAs or complicated contracts required)
  • Get instant access to all of our proprietary tried-and-tested land owner approach letters together with site introduction templates to optimise your site finding processes
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Our flagship programme what has accelerated the progress of hundreds of property development professionals and shortcut their progress to finding and structuring the best deals. 

Learn exactly how the big house builders, experienced SMEs, property developers and industry insiders assess, negotiate and secure the very best deals, optimise their schemes, and win planning permission in the quickest time possible — every time.

Discover how to get the most out of every inch of space on every development site, ensure you maximise the potential profit, and minimise the risk every time, making sure you never make the expensive mistakes that kill most ‘deals’ before they’ve even started.

  • Cultivate the actionable skills required to create massively profitable land, planning and development deals to either Trade, JV, Build-To-Sell, or Build-To-Rent or hold for your own portfolio
  • Learn how to quickly and confidently assess the development potential of any site or building so you always know what's a good deal and what's not (without spending hours on appraisals or expensive consultants)
  • Understand how to control and negotiate deals in the safest way possible (even with minimal capital of your own)
  • Discover how to leverage design and planning know-how in order to maximise the profitability of every opportunity
  • Learn how you can negotiate and win the very best planning permissions in the shortest time possible
  • Understand how to find the right partners to build your team and get your deals funded
  • Know how to assess your best exit routes so you start every deal with the end in mind
  • Plus, get an abundance of case study documents and our actual Option Agreement and Development Appraisal templates that we use in our own business every day of the week.

Further training

 

Landowner Language + Negotiation

Negotiate win-win deals with landowners on terms that work for you!

  • Learn the 5 critical stages of negotiation so you don't lose out on deals
  • Understand how to prepare your mindset, words, and actions
  • Discover ways to get landowners on-side, overcome unrealistic expectations, and make winning proposals
  • Gain insights into different personalities and psychologies. Learn how to adapt you approach to handle any persona
  • Get a full run-down of the processes for negotiating and agreeing land deals using
  • Option Agreements and other deal structures

 

Development Appraisals, Build Costs + Sales Pricing

Never go over budget or commit to an unprofitable deal again. Discover how to make sure your deals stack up and deliver the scheme and profits you expect.

  • Understand the specifics of what to include in your appraisals
  • How to progress through the different types of appraisals at each stage of your project
  • Identify the most important calculations and learn how to perform them
  • Learn how to undertake affordable housing calculations and commercial valuations
  • Discover the five key build cost categories and how to estimate them
  • Go through a detailed real-world case study appraisal line-by-line to discover the intelligence behind the spreadsheet and where to source your information
  • Take an insider's approach to accurate sales research and pricing

Plus! Get our detailed Development Appraisal templates and an example of one of our live deal appraisals. Complete with up-to-date build costs and project cash-flow forecasts, which you can adapt for your own projects.

 

Option Agreements, Land Assemblies + Promotions

Create and control the highest-returning types of deals without risking your own capital.

  • Learn how to use £1 Option Agreements to control any deal
  • Get the inside track on Land Assemblies: When to use them, how to negotiate them, and how to bring these opportunities together
  • How to identify and start the process of finding sites and approaching landowners
  • Discover the new Permitted Development Rights (PDR) and how the best new opportunities are “interest assemblies”
  • Understand the common pitfalls, problems, and red flagsso you spot them early
  • Encourage landowners to enter into Option Agreements with you
  • Balance the interests of competing landowners while negotiating with them
  • Deal with landowners’ objections and unrealistic expectations
  • Promote strategic land and structure deals where you get a percentage of any planning uplift

Plus! Get exclusive access to our actual Option Agreement. We walk through it line-by-line so you can use it for your own deals.

 

Site Finding Applied

Go beyond the theory with this hands-on, practical guide to finding genuine off-market sites for development in the real world.

  • Learn the site finding process and the mindset you need for systematically looking for sites
  • Discover what development potential looks like in practice
  • Learn how to identify sites in high value areas
  • Master LandInsight and other mapping tools to carry out initial research on sites

Plus! Get insight regarding how to tell what is and isn't a viable site, backed up by multiple practical examples.

 

Permitted Development

Take advantage of the latest opportunities in the planning system before it’s too late!

  • Learn how to spot deals that other developers will miss
  • Know how and where to identify unprecedented opportunities. and get early mover advantages
  • Understand the impact that changes to legislation have on your deals and avoid costly mistakes
  • Gain a clear view of future changes and adjust your strategy accordingly

Get our complete collection

 

The Insider Collection

Get our entire collection of premium content to massively accelerate your development journey.

We hand you everything you need in this package, including the templates, processes, and letters we use in our property development business to get deals over the line.

  • Insider System
  • Site Finder
  • Development Intensive
  • Landowner Language + Negotiation
  • Option Agreements + Land Assemblies
  • Development Appraisals, Build Costs + Sales Pricing
  • Permitted Development 2024/25
  • Site Finding Applied

Plus! Get 20% off the combined RRP of all our courses.