our services
Urban Estate Developments provides expert management of ANY one or more of the following:
- Bringing together joint-venture partners in a professional and amicable manner
- Sourcing development sites, sometimes from the most unlikely sources
- Site acquisition, often with creative vendor finance or Call Option solutions
- Removal or overcoming of site impediments, such as easements or heritage listing
- Highest and best use solutions
- Feasibility studies that think outside the square - testing different options to maximise profit
- Land rezoning and town planning of new estates
- Architectural design and drafting
- DA lodgement and approval, including meetings and negotiation with councils
- Organise project finance, present projects the way financiers like to see
- Construction methods that are most efficient for the nature of development
- Surveying – before, during and after development
- Land infrastructure, such as roads, water, electricity, gas, sewerage, and storm water management
- Renovation, refurbishment, finishes and landscaping of existing developments, researched and systemised for highest profit at lowest cost
- Torrens, Community or Strata Title subdivision of completed lots
- Project marketing of completed lots, or presales where required
We rely on our many associates to be able to handle all of the above, but play an integral role in bringing it all together. No project can be successful without flawless project.
Our business has grown largely on our ability to deal harmoniously with all parties, be it councils, financiers, neighbours, or joint venture partners. This is simply our secret to success. This is how and why we are able to resolve virtually all problems without resorting to project failure or needing to engage the valuable time of The Land and Environment Court.
We do not just undertake our own developments. We are unbiased specialists who are willing to help others develop their property too, be it for wealth creation through profits, their own occupation, or to establish an asset base for you & your family.
Property development opens up many doors to many creative ideas & opportunities. Our goal is to expand our horizons and not just be ‘limited’ to applying our broad range of skills to just our own developments. We open up property development and/or all its supplementary businesses to virtually anyone!
We offer our clients a wide range of consultancy services that cover one or more of virtually every aspect of property development, anything from site research through to final project marketing or leasing, be it for one unit or many. We combine our services with a number of closely affiliated registered professionals to ensure that we are able to deliver wide-ranging solutions to all challenges.
Our services are most sought after by clients who are either managed funds that require third-party project management, or clients who simply do not wish to go through some or all of the often difficult and stressful stages of property development, anything from a single home or an acreage subdivision.
Our ability to ‘think outside the square’ and experience with the most difficult sites or other scenarios would ensure that we can overcome almost every conceivable challenge that could otherwise have deemed your project unviable, or where other developers may have given up and left the site to sell cheaply.
We are a rare developer who offers to work more intimately with your personal and family needs. We understand that most development projects involve issues like a treasured home, inheritance and other family issues. We work to your needs! We can either save you that home, or develop something unique that could even enhance your home or overall property to best suit your family or business goals.
FOR HOME BUYERS
We and our associates often undertake projects where we have access to residential stock to either sell “off the plan” or completed and ready to occupy. Other times a development may come along that produces a ‘residual’ lot (such as an existing house with its land reduced), or we are selling our own investments. In any case, WE NEED YOU!
Working in conjunction with our sister company, Urban Estate Investments, we are pleased to offer you possibly some of the best opportunities in the market, where you are likely to pickup:
- An ‘off the plan’ property that is not only sold to you below market price, but may also provide the option to choose your own finishes.
- Your own part of a larger development where you build your dream home on a discounted block of land
- A property with no deposit, either via vendor finance for the deposit or via one of many other creative solutions that we can implement
- A property with your stamp duty (if applicable) already paid – so you don’t incur the debilitating out of pocket expense when you least need it, and in process – perhaps increase your deposit to pickup a better property
- A newly completed place to live that is likely to be available for IMMEDIATE occupation BEFORE settlement, while we continue and finish off the usual sale process
Furthermore, we do not let our best clients walk away with just one property! We will be back knocking on your door in the medium term to entice you into:
- A bigger / better home
- Investment properties
- Joint venture partnership in our development projects
Capable, dependable and proactive home buyers are a developer’s best friend. At the time of need, a developer must clear stock to make way for new projects, initiate new ventures, or settle investor obligations. This is why we seek “down to business” style home buyers all the time, who are often rewarded with the best properties and/or deals.
Please submit your Home Buyer Expression of Interest and we look forward to helping you realize your dream and goals.
FOR HOME OWNERS
Homeowners may wish to add value to their homes for numerous reasons, such as:Imminent sale of their homeA new level of living enjoyment, with their home improved and customised to their needs• Helping their children/family with part or full home ownership• Borrowing additional funds from their bank by drawing down their newly created equity
We are pleased to offer not only the value adding service, but also helping you achieve those goals once the value is added.
There are a number of ways to add value to your home. Some examples include:• Simple cosmetic renovations• Addition of a functional work shed and/or carport / awning• New driveway to enhance appearance and perhaps create additional car space(s)• Addition of a granny flat or the like to add living space & income potential• Practical use of previously wasted land space• Finding hidden development potential in the land• Creative boundary adjustments or “land swaps” with neighbour(s)• Amalgamation of lot with neighbour(s) to create and approve a development site, yet still retain their home building if needed
While there may be a number of methods, they are NOT simple. Most could require significant professional investigations, enquiries, trades work, surveys etc, and liaison with a number of authorities.
Urban Estate Developments however not only understands ‘highest and best use’ value adding techniques, but also possesses the expertise and resources required to take action and actually implement them.
Where required, we can fully manage the building work, be it using our own building company or another of your choice. We can in-fact carry out the entire process with our associate professionals and statutory authorities. Our project management has been paramount for creativity, and especially for time – your most valuable asset.
We are a rare developer who is sensitive to the sentimental value of your family home. In case we propose a development that requires major changes or removal of your family home, we will offer all building expertise required to come up with a solution.
Please submit your Home Owner Expression of Interest and we look forward to helping you achieve your goals.
FOR land owners
We can either find development potential in just your own land, or help create an alliance with your neighbours to produce a large and high yielding development site.
Our service is also available to single home developers, because even with just a single new house, there are unimaginable ways to make higher and better use of your land to build a dream home more customised than you could have imagined.
Most local authorities already allow certain developments that may be unheard of. We not only understand those existing regulations, but can also negotiate integrated developments which no one may have implemented before. Therefore it is possible to generate a higher or better yield from your development, even more than what the previous owner of your land may have thought before selling!
Once we identify the potential of your land, we can take your development to any level you wish. For example, you may just engage our services to fix one small problem, or take your development to the DA stage, and on-sell your land to others or maybe go ahead with the full development.
No capital? No problems. Your LAND is your capital! We can opt to arranging full project finance from a financial institute, outlay our own capital, or call upon our associate investors.
Furthermore, we are a rare developer who is sensitive to the sentimental value of your family home. Options may be to propose the development all around your home, and even better – we may retain a sizable proportion of the land along with your home that could one day become yet another highly sought after development site! But in case a development absolutely requires major changes or removal of your family home, we will offer all building expertise required to come up with a solution.
Our development proposals need not be detrimental to the neighbourhood or local community. In fact, we may even go beyond council requirements to ensure that any development undertaken is kept in harmony with the neighbourhood, and in line with market demands and the demographics of the area. For example, out studies may find that an area where one may wish to develop units is in fact more viable for townhouses.
Please submit your Land Owner Expression of Interest and we look forward to helping you achieve your property development goals.
FOR property developers
Whether you are a professional developer or a beginner, there will always be moments or stages of a development where you will be limited by time, resources or expertise. Such a limitation has the potential to grow uncontrollably, and perhaps even devastate your project.
It is quite possible that you are so stretched for time that you are not even able to undertake any more developments – and so throwing away substantial profits that you could otherwise have generated.
Perhaps you may not have undertaken the right demographic or market research prior to starting your development. Maybe you purchased someone else’s DA approved site with a difficult problem, or maybe your finances were not structured correctly.
This is where our services can be of great value. We act as your project manager (with our associates) in managing issues like:
- Helping you make a new start in property development
- Sourcing your most desired development site
- Highest and best use of your vacant site or existing improvements
- Resolving an issue with a council or other statutory authority
- Constructing your project using own or another building company
- Monitoring trades people’s workmanship, whether our company’s or others’
- Managing just a certain stage of your development project
- Finishing off or on-selling your project for you
Being developers ourselves, we can fully relate to all your issues and needs, and act in your best interest. Our ultimate goal is to form long term relations with organisations like yours; therefore your success is also our success.
Please submit your Property Developer Expression of Interest and we look forward to being your partners or service providers in future projects.
FOR property investors
We believe that the most efficient investment is one that provides a return right from the start, not just over the long term. We have therefore mastered the art of value adding to your investment via a myriad of methods, and can provide solutions to maximising yield, and minimising or possibly even eliminate the debilitating maintenance or running costs.
We are pleased to demonstrate a flawless track record in all aspects of property investment. We take property investment to new levels by eliminating numerous impediments that have otherwise made this investment vehicle unviable or undesirable for many.
We also trade properties with homeowners and homebuyers, and often reach creative & amicable solutions that could otherwise have been unimaginable. Our deals are creatively designed to be win-win for all parties involve, regardless of their situation. We do not take unfair advantage of someone's misfortunes!
Our services for property investors include:
- Researching and sourcing investment opportunities (in conjunction with our professional partners)
- Adding value to properties with ‘highest and best use’ improvements, where we can recommend what will create the greatest value with minimal cost.
- Increasing the income yield from the properties (therefore adding even further value) through a number of means
- Managing property development projects, where our client can acquire investment properties at below market ‘wholesale’ prices
We can fully manage all the required work through our associate businesses, or perhaps other service providers of your choice – no questions asked. Our project management has been paramount, especially for creativity but more importantly for time – which is any property investor’s most valuable asset.
Urban Estate Investments has grown on fair and ethical business. Our goal is to continually build relations and gain ever-increasing referrals.
We welcome your Property Investor Expression of Interest and look forward to assisting you achieve your investment goals.
For financial investors and finance brokers
Whether its investment via mortgage security or investment via direct ownership, Urban Estate Developments is highly committed to maintaining strong working relationships with our investors by working to pre-agreed profit share or direct ownership arrangements, as well as gaining their confidence to continue investing their returns back with us.
Urban Estate Developments takes a flexible approach to the investment goals of all its investors, and offers returns via profit share, fixed repayments, and/or equity in projects. If the investors choose, the company’s goal is to go further and offer creative means of generating returns that may be new to them (based on certified recommendations of our associate professionals).
For example, they may never have considered:
- Establishing a ‘portfolio’ of assets that may be more tax effective or beneficial in other ways
- Engaging in joint ventures with Urban Estate Developments and our other clients
- Providing long term finance to buyers of new homes that we and our associates develop
Our projects or investment vehicles offer a number of options for security or guarantee of your investment:
- Feasibility studies, valuations, and/or market opinions provide by reputable professionals for you to assess the project or investment
- An independent solicitor or other professional consistently acting on your behalf to monitor and protect your interest
- Security via mortgage or direct ownership
- Contract clauses that simplify recovery of assets
- Invitation for you to be part of the project team
Our fair and ethical standards of operation involve you – the investor – intimately knowing and physically watching where your money is being utilised, and how that project or investment is performing. Your investment performance is not presented to you in mountains of paperwork! Imagine physically watching the land being developed, the building(s) being constructed, or developed stock being displayed to public. Try doing that with your term-deposit or the like, or being limited to just watching the stockmarket screens!
Our fair and ethical standards do not just stop there. The goal of Urban Estate Developments is to not only exceed the anticipated returns of a project or investment, but also taking an open minded approach in distribution of the returns. We understand that if we have generated returns beyond your expectations AND you were enjoying watching them being physically generated, then where are you most likely to reinvest your gains!
We look forward to your Financial Investor Expression of Interest or Finance Broker Expression of Interest.
For real estate agents
Having full understanding of how your business works, our goal is to be your most effective and amicable customers as well as business providers. We do this to gain the best out of your business, which in turn will only further accelerate our business.
One key example of how we maintain your interest is that in nearly all cases, we re-sell any developed properties through the same real estate agent who originally provided us with the opportunity. In case of leasing, we nearly always engage the services of the same real estate that sold us the property.
Another example is our generous, above average commission payments on properties where we need to achieve certain goals. Not only are we already being your effective and amicable business providers, we are willing to provide you with as much as to 4-5% sales commission for properties that we or our associates want cleared most urgently.
We in-fact go out of our way to have our real estate agents become affiliated with our business such that they become a part of our projects. An example may be that if one of our real estate agents has worked tirelessly to gain a large deal such as multiple neighbouring listings, we make them our joint-venture partners!
We want to work with the best real estate agents in the industry working to the best of their strength. We then reward the hard work of our real estate agents with healthy returns to their business, and an ever-strengthening relationship. It is of in our own best interest to do so!
We welcome any opportunities like:
- Your clients who are having difficulty in selling their property
- Your clients that want to add value to their property prior to listing for sale via cosmetic improvements, functionality, or finding hidden potential in the land
- Your clients who are willing to trade their property via alternative methods like vendor finance or lease-to-own to achieve better sale prices or outcomes
- Virtually any development sites, be it raw or DA approved, as small as a single block or large acreage
- Landowners who are willing to either sell with vendor finance or wish to engage in a joint venture with us to achieve substantially better outcomes
We invite your Real Estate Agent Expression of Interest and look forward to establishing a working partnership with you.
For service providers
Due to our continually growing needs, we are always looking to expand our mastermind team of following professional associates:
- All building construction & infrastructure trades
- Real estate agents / salespeople
- Town planners
- Architects and drafting technicians
- Quantity surveyors
- Land surveyors
- Engineers
- Solicitors
- Accountants
- Project managers
Urban Estate Developments as well as our clients and/or other associates may, at any time, have a number of projects in progress and therefore seek the services of numerous trustworthy professionals – sometimes at short notice.
We seek out a high standard of service, and go to extraordinary lengths to find and then keep the best service providers in the business. And given that they are the best in the business, we deal with our associates fairly and respectably – as they should be.
Not only are we one of the fairest in paying all our service providers as soon as possible after completion of work, we eventually encourage our associates to take the next step and work on the best projects they ever will – their own.
We treat our best serving service providers as our partners. They therefore not only have their services engaged repeatedly, but also gain the opportunity to become full or part owners of the developments we undertake, where they gain much higher rewards for their hard work.
Please submit your Service Provider Expression of Interest and we look forward to your partnership.