Affordable Housing
Knight Frank’s Affordable Housing Team provides expert advice on all aspects of the UK affordable housing sector.
We offer a comprehensive service to housing developers and landowners, from concept design stage, through Section 106 negotiations, to the sale of the affordable housing to a housing association or other Registered Providers.
One of the team’s key areas of expertise is the preparation of financial viability
models – such as the GLA Toolkit (aka Three Dragons) – to demonstrate the amount
of affordable housing that a particular development can reasonably
be expected to sustain.
The team has an enviable track record of adding value to projects by negotiating
the optimum affordable housing mix and identifying the most suitable
affordable housing provider for a scheme. We have particularly
strong experience of high-density, mixed-use schemes in urban locations, undoubtedly
the most challenging schemes into which to integrate affordable housing.
The team’s in-depth knowledge and first hand experience of local, regional and national
affordable housing policy, funding frameworks, legislation and best practice is
complemented by extensive first-hand experience of delivering affordable housing
developments.
Affordable Housing services
- Viability modelling and open book appraisals to support planning
- Affordable housing pricing and valuation, including Red Book valuation for acquisition
and disposal
- Marketing and sale of affordable
- Planning advice, including section 106 negotiations and expert witness
- Feasibility and options appraisals
- Public private partnerships, joint ventures and SPVs
- Regeneration and master planning, including design, management and compliance
- Market evaluation, emerging tenures and sustainability assessments
- Grant and investment administration
- Stock rationalisation, including the transfer of tenanted or void RSL stock
- Stock valuations
Affordable Housing clients
- Developers
- Landowners
- Housing associations
- Local authorities
- The London Development Agency
- Homes and Communities Agency
For more information on Affordable Housing contact:
Sue Cocking
Head of Affordable Housing
T +44 (0)20 7861 5420
Philip Browne
Partner
T +44 (0)20 7861 5341
Affordable Housing
55 Baker Street
London
W1U 8AN
T +44 20 7861 5421
F +44 20 7861 5401
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