A Sample of Recent Projects - Partnerships

• RBS Property Ventures - Thorntreeside, Edinburgh

  Acquisition of a secondary industrial investment; enhancement of income though active asset management and lease restructuring; planning consent for 150 new homes and onward disposal to house builder

• RBS Property Ventures - Newton Industrial Estate, Ayr

  Acquisition of a secondary industrial investment; enhancement of existing income though active asset management; planning consent for 130 new homes on surplus land and onward disposal to house builder

• Private Equity - Stoneywood, Aberdeen

  Acquisition of 90 acre non-operational former industrial site; new draft mixed residential and commercial master plan and onward sale to property company realising our partners a significant return in under a year

• Buccleuch Property - Shortbread House, Edinburgh

  Masterplanning advice on a factory site within an historic portfolio; secured planning consent for a new development of private and affordable homes; disposal advice of the enhanced asset into a new joint venture vehicle

• Blackrock Merrill Lynch - Princes Street, Edinburgh

  Change of use, planning consent and separation of surplus retail upper floors to form new self-contained residential apartments above a standalone retail investment

A Sample of Recent Projects - Advisory

• Paradigm Partners - Slackbuie, Inverness

  Advised the owners of one of the North of Scotland's largest housing releases on the disposal of land with planning consent for 600 new homes

• Clydeport PLC/Elphinstone Group - Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre (SECC), Glasgow

  Consultant on the proposed 2,000 unit residential, retail and commercial master plan for the SECC car park site, which occupies a prime redevelopment site on The Clyde

• Elphinstone Group - St Vincent Street/India Street, Glasgow

  Advised the owners of the site of Scotland's tallest residential building (38 storeys) on the disposal of their interest to a Southern based property group

• Forth Property Developments Ltd - (a joint venture between Forth Ports and Bellhouse Joseph)

  Asset Management of the port estate extending to c.300 acres; delivery of a new planning consent for a revised master plan for 5,500 residential units; onward disposal of plots of consented land to house builders delivering c.£120m in sales receipts for the client over four years

• Port of Dundee - City Quay, Dundee

  Advised the Port Company on the disposal of the 35 acre dock estate with planning consent for c.600 new homes, 100,000 sq ft of new offices and a 100,000 sq ft of income producing retail and leisure space

• Carlyle Group - Westwood Retail & Leisure Village, West Lothian

  Advised the private equity owners on the potential regeneration of this 53.4 hectare redundant factory outlet, retail and leisure site. Secured residential consent despite an initial planning refusal in order that the site could be sold on for development