Nationally, Ray Borrett oversees our extensive
client bank of some thousand developers with up to a hundred sites
at any time all over the country, sourced and supplied by our regional
land teams and connections, to enable us to feed the building industry
with land.
Nearer to home Paul Fisher and James Timberlake assemble
and acquire for developer clients and investors a variety of plots
and sites ranging in price from a few hundred thousand pounds up
to many millions. Development opportunities are sourced mainly in
Dorset and Hampshire and frequently venture further afield into
Devon, Wiltshire and Sussex to acquire specific sites for particular
clients.
However, there are a wealth of opportunities
closer to home to keep the land division busy uncovering exceptional
development opportunities in the Bournemouth and Poole area. We
pride ourselves by being in the forefront of technology, with the
latest computerized satellite mapping system enabling accurate plot
information.
We have a wealth of resources available, such
as in-house and associated professionals including town planners,
architects and structural engineers.
All of this, of course, is carried out under
the watchful eye of our Chairman and Managing Director, Tom Doyle,
who has a wealth of valuable connections with land owners and developers
at the highest level.
We have luxuriously appointed suites where discussion
and meetings can take place informally. When the occasion arises
we can, of course, adjourn to the Board Room where many a negotiation
has taken place and where many deals have been struck over the years.
Sometimes circumstances demand confidentiality
and discretion. Whether it is visiting a sensitive location or choosing
the right buyer to contact on a one to one basis, our clients trust
us to do the best for them. This helps us to work in partnership
with them to achieve sales at the best possible prices - often on
sites that are unattainable elsewhere.
It would, perhaps, be immodest of us to mention
our long standing clients by name but we can count many private
individuals and companies - as well as some of the country's most
prolific building developers - amongst them.
Of course, when a company is so passionate about
its business, it is no surprise we are willing to go that extra
mile. At various times we have flown to sites, sailed to them, driven
miles to deliver contracts for them, and at the moment the record
for the latest meeting (which was successful, we might add) is approximately
2.30am! On the other occasions in pursuit of a deal we have been
attacked by wild animals, stranded in mud or soaked by torrential
rain, but needless to say it is all in a days work!
Perhaps the nicest feeling of all is seeing land
we have sold being built upon and the resulting new homes being
purchased and eventually moved into by expectant new home owners.
We have sold literally hundreds and hundreds of new homes over the
years for our clients, ranging from starter homes up to multi-million
pound designer houses and mansions as featured with Lloyds on various
television programmes, newspaper articles and magazines such at
Tatler, Hello! And Vogue.
We at Lloyds are always hungry for sites
and all that possibly stands between you and realizing the true
potential of your land is a telephone call. With or without planning
permission, we are always on the lookout for property with potential
and if you are looking for advice or thinking of selling, you will
be in safe hands by contacting Lloyds Land Division.