Property Sourcing and Acquisition
Property Sourcing and Acquisition is the ground floor of everything else, because the wrong building makes every later decision harder. We begin by converting your intentions into a written brief: target postcodes, property type, tenancy status, refurbishment appetite, minimum yield, finance position and intended holding period. Only then do we search.
Our screening covers open-market listings, agent relationships, probate and portfolio disposals, and approaches to long-held owners who may not have advertised. Each candidate property receives a structured appraisal covering title and tenure, lease length, service charge and ground rent history, build construction and age, damp and structural indicators, planning constraints and a realistic refurbishment allowance. We present the evidence and the assumptions separately, so you can see exactly where the risk sits.
When you decide to proceed, we coordinate the survey, searches, valuation and negotiation alongside your solicitor and lender, maintaining a single schedule of conditions so that nothing surfaces unexpectedly at exchange. For buyers entering the market for the first time we often recommend a staged plan that spreads capital across two or three modest assets rather than committing everything to one address.