Leisure Agency, Valuation and Planning
Expert real estate advice and support across the leisure property spectrum
The places and spaces where we spend our free time are part of a sector which generates over £200bn a year in direct and indirect contributions. The leisure industry offers huge opportunities - and rewards - to developers, investors, operators and occupiers.
We’re one of the country’s leading leisure property experts because we work with our clients from beginning to end. We provide an array of real estate services which cover agency, valuation and planning applications, due diligence, vendor surveys, project monitoring, dilapidations and acquisition. Our consultants advise on expert witnesses, review trading patterns, and help to reduce business rate liabilities.
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The diversity of the sector is something we fully appreciate. Valuing a golf course requires a degree of specialist knowledge which most property consultancies simply don’t have. The same goes for carrying out a feasibility study for a stadium development, or conducting due diligence on the planned purchase of a marina.
Technology and changing tastes are having a major impact on the leisure sector - agility, ingenuity, authenticity and creative thinking are a must for operators. We’re evolving alongside the sector, giving clients the support they need to make their vision a reality.
Expert real estate advice and support across the leisure spectrum
The places and spaces where we spend our free time are part of a sector which generates over £200bn a year in direct and indirect contributions. The leisure industry offers huge opportunities - and rewards - to developers, investors, operators and occupiers.
We’re one of the country’s leading leisure property experts because we work with our clients from beginning to end. We provide an array of real estate services which cover planning applications, due diligence, vendor surveys, project monitoring, dilapidations and acquisition. Our consultants advise on expert witnesses, review trading patterns, and help to reduce business rate liabilities.
The diversity of the sector is something we fully appreciate. Valuing a golf course requires a degree of specialist knowledge which most property consultancies simply don’t have. The same goes for carrying out a feasibility study for a stadium development, or conducting due diligence on the planned purchase of a marina.
Technology and changing tastes are having a major impact on the leisure sector - agility, ingenuity, authenticity and creative thinking are a must for operators. We’re evolving alongside the sector, giving clients the support they need to make their vision a reality.
The holiday property market has been changing over the last decade, with an increase in demand for premium, often novel, holiday experiences within the UK. Our holiday property and caravan park specialists advise on the current state of the market at a local, and national, level. We’ve established expert consultants around the country, enabling clients to draw on their extensive experience, wherever they’re located.
For property services we cover everything from valuation, business rate and expert witness, to marketing and selling property, and advising on leases. Recent changes to business rates mean that it’s more important than ever to be accurately assessed. Our specialist consultants challenge rateable values for our clients and cast their expert eye over assessments to find possible cost savings.
Our planning services cover everything from advising on development opportunities and planning strategy, planning applications and appeals, dealing with enforcement enquiries, application for certificate of lawfulness, caravan site licensing, economic impact, tourism and leisure need assessments, and full RICS compliant development viability appraisals to assess development contributions. Recent planning successes include permissions for 108 holiday lodges within the New Forest National Park, 87 holiday lodges in the Dorset Green Belt, 82 park homes to replace a redundant golf course in Kent, and a new 167 home retirement park in Yorkshire.
The diversity of our clients is a reflection of our broad swathe of services: They include private proprietors, small, medium and large companies including quoted PLCs, as well as a mix of other clients including solicitors, government agencies, trade associations, and other property owners or their advisers.
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Our specialists appreciate the subtleties and quirks of golf-related property, and that a standardised approach isn’t suitable for a category which also covers hotels, driving ranges, country clubs and resorts. Our service offering is both integrated and broad – we’re equipped to provide expert advice on everything from valuation, business rate, leasing and planning, to crafting marketing or development strategies.
Valuing a golf-related asset can be both technically involved and challenging, but may also be necessary for loan security, balance sheet, CGT or receivership purposes. The trust our clients have in our valuations rests on the professionalism, impartiality and clarity of advice of our surveyors.
When marketing our clients’ golf property to sell or to lease out, we apply our intimate knowledge of the sector to give it the best possible exposure. Our specialists also apply that same knowledge when negotiating on our clients’ behalf.
Our specialist planning and development consultants have extensive experience of advising on feasibility and planning strategies to help golf course operators to diversify and strengthen their business. This might entail a detailed market assessment to consider the ongoing need to retain part or all of the golf course, or securing planning permission to extend the clubhouse to provide improved function space, or permission to provide holiday lodge accommodation for golfers and other guests. A recent such permission at Benton Hall Golf Club in Essex allowed the siting of 18 holiday lodges along with the creation of two tennis courts, a spa garden, and additional overflow car parking space.
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It’s a highly dynamic sector characterised by innovation and diversity, with numerous operating styles, customer demographics and ownership models.
Our licensed leisure consultants are located in offices across the country, offering a full range of property services to individual operators, local and national companies and partnerships, and quoted PLCs. Those services include valuation, acquisition and disposals, lease consultancy, and planning.
The professional advice we provide is anchored in a clear understanding of a complex market, and a long and successful history of transacting real estate in the licensed leisure sector. We work on every property type, from freehold and leasehold pubs, to restaurants and nightclubs. And on a scale which ranges from individual buildings to large portfolios.
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The continuing appeal of museums, theatres, theme parks, zoos, heritage properties, aquariums, piers and wildlife centres continues to draw in millions of tourists a year.
Our consultants are specialists in visitor attractions, tourism and heritage properties for sale or to lease in the UK. We can help you devise a strategy to get optimal performance out of your attraction, regardless of whether it’s an aquarium or pier. The range of services we offer around visitor attractions is extremely broad. Our team of qualified surveyors provides clients with accurate valuations of land and property, for accounts and loan security purposes.
We’re also experts on business rates, rent reviews, planning and development matters. Our team of leisure planning and development consultants carry out planning appraisals and applications, feasibility and viability studies, and economic impact assessments for clients developing their attraction. We recently completed a study on the Economic Impact of a major visitor attraction in Ireland on the surrounding local economy.
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The UK market for marinas, fisheries, lakeside and other leisure properties is buoyant. Our experts help clients to chart a course through this area of the market, using our extensive experience to support their leisure real estate aspirations.
Our specialist team handles all areas of water-based leisure, including planning, valuation, property management, agency, acquisitions advice, buildings consultancy, and a long list of complementary real estate services. We also have a dedicated property management and facilities management teams, whose sole aim is to simplify and streamline the process of running a property. We also help to reduce costs and keep our clients’ water-based assets on an even keel.
Our clients are diverse, and include major institutions such as ING Real Estate, MDL, British Waterways, Canal and River Trust and Scottish Enterprises.
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Sports, Health and Fitness are flourishing areas of the economy. The adoption of healthier, more active lifestyle choices has had the effect of igniting demand for suitable property and development sites.
In addition to helping our clients dispose of, or acquire, sports real estate, we also have specialist valuation and expert witness services. Our experience of working on health and fitness developments of every size has given us sophisticated understanding of the sector. Clients accessing our services can be confident that they’re getting advice that’s grounded in commercial reality – as well as peerless real estate knowledge.
We work on all scales. We’re equally comfortable disposing of a single health-club, or valuing a nationwide portfolio of health and fitness properties.
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Our surveyors have carried out valuations for clubs and the owners of national football, rugby and cricket stadium, giving them an accurate appraisal of an asset’s market worth. We also help clients to dispose of stadium property, and act on their behalf if they’re in the market to buy.
Our specialist leisure consultants provide robust reports for planning applications and appeals on the market demand and need to retain private sports clubs.
And we can, if called on, act as expert witnesses. Specialists in our team have been called upon to give their impartial opinion in a number of high-profile court cases involving football stadiums.
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We’ve successfully worked with exhibition and conference property for a long time, advising on major developments like London’s Earls Court, Olympia, Birmingham’s NEC, the Business Design Centre, Manchester Cultural Convention Complex and the Brighton Conference Centre. Our surveyors have carried out valuation for a number of different reasons, including loan security, annual accounts and dispute resolution.
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