Development Consultancy

From valuation, land sales and acquisitions, through to funding and portfolio advisory transactional support, our end-to-end development service can be applied across residential, commercial, rural and mixed-use projects throughout the UK.

From buying land and development opportunities, preparing and submitting planning applications, to selling the finished product, our expert team can act as your trusted partner throughout the development process.

Our clients benefit from our experience and specialist advice. Residential developers, property companies, pension funds, estates, house builders and registered providers can all tap into Savills expertise and our unrivalled market knowledge.

If you have land that can be developed, you need an expert at your shoulder, advising on your entitlements, options and procedures. With development consultants working across the UK, Savills has built enviable expertise in selling and buying land for new projects, then turning potential into real development opportunities. In addition to buying and selling we provide consultancy guidance, transactional support and market appraisals.

Whenever a housing association, local authority, private developer or government body sets out to develop and regenerate land for mixed-tenure housing, our specialists are a natural port of call.

Every development project starts with a valuation. Determining financial viability is key to the initiation of a project – getting that right is crucial.

Our role is to make sure that a development is viable, or advise clients past the pitfalls. This ensures that planning applications evolve into deliverable schemes, or an efficient withdrawal if needed. Consequently, our work revolves around protecting scheme value, removing risk and mapping out exit-routes where appropriate.

Any transaction involving land or buildings is shaped by planning. Expert guidance can make all the difference in establishing the best achievable permissions. A site's value and viability can depend on it.

Our residential investment and development team is the largest and most experienced of its kind, with nearly 30 members of staff and an unparalleled track record brokering key private rented sector (PRS) investment and development mandates across the UK and Europe.