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BASE Real Estate Investment and Construction

Investment model

Three ways an investor and BASE REIC come together. Which one applies changes who brings the land, who brings the concept, and at what point the investor joins — but not the standard the project is held to.

Three Routes In

Investors reach us at different points. Some have capital and no site, some have land and no plan, some have a brief and a deadline. These are the three shapes that takes.

BASE Finds the Land and Develops the Project

We identify a plot, establish what can be built on it, develop the concept and feasibility, and then take the project to investors. By the time you see it, the land position, the zoning read, the scheme and the cost plan already exist — so the decision in front of you is whether to back a defined project, not whether to start looking for one.

SuitsInvestors with capital to place who would rather join a project that has already been assessed than originate one.

How it runs

  1. Land Sourced and Assessed

    We identify a plot and establish zoning, title, access, ground conditions and what the local market supports — at our own cost and risk.

  2. Concept and Feasibility Produced

    A scheme is designed to the point where cost, revenue and programme can be stated as a range, with the assumptions behind them shown.

  3. Project Presented to Investors

    The project is presented with the study behind it: what is established, what is still open, and where the risk actually sits.

  4. Structured, Built and Handed Over

    Terms are agreed, the acquisition completes, and the same company designs, permits and builds the project through to handover.

The Investor Comes to BASE

You arrive first — with a plot you already own, or with capital and a clear idea of what you want to hold. We assess what you have, tell you what it can realistically become, and then develop and build it. Where the honest answer is that a plot will not carry the project you had in mind, that is the answer you get, before money is spent on design.

SuitsInvestors already holding land, or holding capital with a defined intention, who need a developer to take it from there.

How it runs

  1. Your Position Assessed

    We evaluate the land you hold or the brief you bring: what may be built, what it would cost, and what the finished asset would be worth.

  2. Options Put in Front of You

    Where more than one scheme is viable, the alternatives are set out against each other — cost, programme, revenue and risk — rather than a single recommendation.

  3. Design and Permits

    The chosen scheme is designed and engineered in house and taken through the approvals it requires.

  4. Construction and Handover

    We build it, report against programme and cost at agreed intervals, commission it and hand it over complete.

BASE Sources Land and Project to a Brief

You define what you need to end up with: the use, the scale, the location, the budget, the date. We go and find land that can carry it, produce a concept that meets the brief, and build it. This is the route most industrial occupiers and specialist requirements take, because the building has to suit an operation rather than a market.

SuitsInvestors and occupiers with a specific requirement — a use, a location, a capacity, a date — and no site yet.

How it runs

  1. Brief Defined Precisely

    Use, capacity, location, budget and date established in detail — including which of them are fixed and which have room in them.

  2. Land Searched Against It

    We search for and assess plots that can actually carry the brief, and report honestly where the brief and the market do not meet.

  3. Concept Produced to Fit

    A scheme designed to the requirement rather than to the plot's maximum, with cost and programme stated against the brief.

  4. Acquired, Built, Handed Over

    Land is acquired, the project is permitted and built, and the completed building is handed over ready for the operation it was designed for.

The route in changes who brings what to the table. It does not change what we will tell you about the project once you are at it.

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