Our Process

​​​Stage 1 - Initial Strategic Advice - no charge, no commitment:

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1. ​Contact us for an initial, confidential discussion - no obligation, exploratory only

2. High level appraisal - planning context, constraints, realistic routes, broad value range

3. Strategic advice - Promotion vs Option vs Sale - risks and trade offs

4. Agree next steps - clear view on whether it is worth proceeding - no obligation to continue further

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Stage 2 - Detailed Review - typically £2,000 - £4,000 depending on complexity (rolled up into Stage 3 if landowner proceeds):

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1. Clearer understanding of ownership and aspirations of landowners

2. In depth review of planning constraints and development risks - and how these might be mitigated to add value to the site

3. Site capacity, broad design principles

4. Value range - unconsented, allocated, consented 

5. Promotion strategy options in the context of the local plan and national policy

6. Recommendations on whether and how to proceed - no obligation to continue further

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Stage 3 - Strategy & Negotiation - Success based remuneration of 1.25% - 1.75% of consented land value payable only at sale to ensure alignment of interests

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1. Advice on promotion vs option vs hybrid vs conditional sale

2. Structuring the legal agreement with a developer

3. Helping co-ordinate and appoint other professional advisors (solicitors and tax advisors)

4. Support marketing 

5. Negotiation of terms with a developer

6. Ensure landowner interests are protected

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Stage 4 - Monitoring & Sale - paid by developer, no ongoing out-of-pocket expense for you

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1. Annual monitoring fee to ensure planning is progressing and monitor risks

2. Review of S106 and other planning obligations to protect landowners

3. Appointment of sales agents and advice to landowners through the sale process

 

 

The Maths of Independent Advice

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• The Developer's Offer:

  • Assume a developer approaches you with an option agreement to buy your five-acre field.

  • They want to maximise their own profit margin, so their initial valuation will include heavily inflated infrastructure and build costs allowing them to present you with an offer  for £2.5m. 

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• Mansfield & Rhodes intervention:

  • You retaining us to review the site's planning viability, capacity and value range. We market it and  negotiate terms. By introducing a structured promotion route, competitive marketing and understanding how value is created and lost, the sales price of the consented land might be £3.5m.

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• The financial outcome: 

  • You secure an additional £1m of value.​

  • Our agreed success fee at 1.5% is £52,500

  • Your net financial gain is £947,500

 

By investing a fraction of the value of the sale into independent, unconflicted advice​, you save hundreds of thousands of pounds in generational wealth from being left on the table.