London & the South East, file open since 1987
Greenfield, brownfield and the awkward in-between, bought for our own account, with covenants, tenancies and missing planning consents treated as pricing questions, not problems.
Have your title number and a price in mind, that’s the whole checklist.
Substantial funds already committed. No chains, no lender committees, when we say yes, the money is real.
We buy direct, for our own account, and we welcome approaches from landowners, agents, developers and public- or private-sector stakeholders. If a site has long-term potential, we can move on it.
Strategic land
Medium- to long-term residential potential, with or without planning. Judging what a site could become is our job, you sell it as it stands.
Commercial
Underperforming or redundant commercial assets with scope for refurbishment, repositioning or redevelopment, occupied, vacant or visibly failing.
Most buyers see problems in pictures like these. We see access, acreage and planning context. Disrepair is a starting point, not a disqualifier.
Representative conditions, tired, vacant, overgrown is rather the point.
Every stage is timed before you commit. No moving goalposts, no renegotiation at the door of exchange.
Call, email, or quote the reference on our letter. Give us your name, your title number and the price you have in mind, a land buyer talks you through the site’s potential on the spot.
If the site fits, a formal written offer follows, priced on market conditions, the land’s characteristics, planning likelihood and medium- to long-term value.
Accept, and we target exchange of contracts within a fortnight. Your solicitor handles the paperwork; our team coordinates with them directly.
Typically around two months after exchange, time for legal and administrative matters and the formal transfer of ownership.
Need a different pace? Probate, tenancy notice periods, tax planning, the timeline flexes to your circumstances. We adapt the pathway; we don’t abandon it.
We write to the owners of land and property that fits our acquisition criteria, so if our letter has reached you, your site is already of interest.
Call with the reference and your title number, and within the week we’ll tell you whether we’d like to make an offer, and roughly what it would look like. There is never any obligation in a conversation.
Utilities Land Investments.
Ref: ULI / your title number · Re: your land
Dear Owner,
We are writing because land registered in your name meets the criteria of our current acquisition programme. We buy directly, with funds in place, and can issue a formal offer within seven days of a first conversation.
If you would consider a sale, now or in the future, we would be pleased to talk.
, The Acquisitions Team
The capital and the Home Counties, the markets we’ve known since 1987.
On the edge of our patch? Send it over anyway.
No. We buy with or without consent. Assessing long-term development potential, and carrying the planning risk, is our side of the transaction. You sell the land as it stands today.
Yes, it’s a specialism. We regularly acquire land heavily restricted by covenants or held under agricultural tenancies. Tell us the constraint up front and we’ll price around it rather than walk away from it.
Three things: your name, your Land Registry title number, and a price in mind, a valuation or simply the figure you’d sell for. No title number? We’ll help you find it on the call.
Yes. We write directly to owners whose land fits our criteria. Every letter carries a reference, quote it on 01494 311 504 and we’ll pick up exactly where it left off. There is never any obligation in a conversation.
You appoint your own solicitor for the legal work; our team coordinates with them directly. Because you’re selling to us direct, there’s no estate agent in the middle and no agency commission payable to us at any stage.
Both. Occupied, vacant or in need of serious improvement, what matters is the scope for value through planning uplift, modernisation or change of use.
Gladly. We aim to acquire 20–30 sites a year, so a steady pipeline of introductions is genuinely valuable. Send the headline details through the form and we’ll respond within the week.
