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Residential
Ashdown House
St Leonards-on-Sea
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Technical Due Diligence
Due diligence for the whole acquisition
The site, the design, the contract, the team and the homes. Before you commit, through delivery, and providing lessons learned when something has gone wrong.
We provide three levels of service, depending on how far you want us involved.
Technical due diligence reporting
- Site, land, planning and building control review
- Design review against your requirements, Building Regulations, fire safety and the Building Safety Act
- Programme and deliverability review
- Review of the building contract, funding agreement, warranties and professional appointments
- Risks flagged as they are found, and worked through with your legal team
- Portfolio and bulk acquisitions, using a desktop and sample-inspection method built for many homes across many sites
Full acquisition service
- Proactive driving of the pre-contract programme through to exchange
- Building and reviewing the consultant team
- Negotiating and implementing design changes between heads of terms and exchange
- Negotiating the technical provisions of the contract and funding agreement
- Continuity into delivery through our Employer's Agent, Principal Consultant, Project Monitor, Independent Certifier and Clerk of Works roles
Root cause analysis
- Independent review of completed schemes that have faced serious cost, programme or quality problems
- Working back from the outcome to the decisions on risk, design, contract and oversight that shaped it
- Document review and interviews with the teams involved
- Benchmarking against comparable organisations
- Findings presented to your board, with recommendations for future acquisitions
the RUND difference
Most due diligence is written for buying a building that already exists. Our clients are usually committing to homes that are not yet built, buying many homes at once, or acquiring a stabilised/turnkey asset. We review the deal as a whole, and we have done so on national portfolio transactions for some of the UK's largest living-sector investors and housing providers.
talk to us todayWhere you want continuity, the team that carried out your due diligence can stay with the scheme as Employer's Agent, Project Monitor or Clerk of Works. Risks identified at acquisition are tracked through construction to handover, by people who already know the scheme.
Talk to us todayOur root cause analysis looks at the process retrospectively and informs how to improve future acquisitions. Our service gives Boards a clear, independent account of why a completed project ran into trouble, and what to change so it does not happen again.
Acquisition-led, not survey-led
Most due diligence is written for buying a building that already exists. Our clients are usually committing to homes that are not yet built, buying many homes at once, or acquiring a stabilised/turnkey asset. We review the deal as a whole, and we have done so on national portfolio transactions for some of the UK's largest living-sector investors and housing providers.
talk to us todayThe people who find the risks can manage them
Where you want continuity, the team that carried out your due diligence can stay with the scheme as Employer's Agent, Project Monitor or Clerk of Works. Risks identified at acquisition are tracked through construction to handover, by people who already know the scheme.
Talk to us todayLearning from what went wrong
Our root cause analysis looks at the process retrospectively and informs how to improve future acquisitions. Our service gives Boards a clear, independent account of why a completed project ran into trouble, and what to change so it does not happen again.
Technical Due Diligence projects
Ashdown House
Trinity Tower
Ford Airfield
Parkside
Market Square
British Waterways
Merrick Place
Chilmington Green
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