Development Consultancy
Throughout the UK, Carter Jonas works with public, private and corporate clients to deliver property development projects with the aim of ensuring the maximum returns on clients’ assets.
We aspire to provide the very best development advice in the market to a wide range of clients in central and local government, development and regeneration agencies, as well as developers, investors and landowners, large and small.
Our key skills include:
- Commercial and mixed-use development
- Town centre and urban regeneration
- Mixed-use and urban regeneration
- Strategic land development
- Feasibility and viability assessments
- Funding and delivery structures
- Surplus asset disposals
- Land assembly
- Landowner agreements
- Project management
- Development partner selection
- Estate strategies and rationalisation
We operate a national property development business, supported by regional hubs in Cambridge, Oxford, Harrogate and Leeds. In addition, we have a dedicated London Development Team covering central and outer London.
This network of professionals allows Carter Jonas to combine our national experience with local market knowledge to offer clients a premium service and unrivalled expertise.
James is Head of the Planning and Development at Carter Jonas and is based out of our London and Oxford offices. James advises clients on proposed development projects throughout the south of England. He has over 20 years experience in residential and mixed use development acting for private, corporate, institutional, charity and public sector clients. This includes site identification, project management of planning and development strategies, valuation and viability appraisals, marketing and sale of development opportunities. He has specific expertise in options, promotion agreements, joint ventures and landowner agreements. James has been involved in sites ranging from new settlements to city centre regeneration and smaller provincial and rural schemes, and also provides expert witness and independent expert valuation services for dispute resolution.
Robert is based in our London head office and heads up the national development team. He has over 20 years of experience as a developer and consultant advising private, corporate and public sector bodies on how to extract value from strategic property assets.
John is Head of the Leeds office and the Planning & Development Team North. John advises clients on proposed development projects throughout the North of England. He has over 30 years’ experience in residential and commercial development acting for private, corporate, institutional, charity and public sector clients.
This includes site identification, project management of planning and development strategies, valuation and viability appraisals, marketing and sale of development opportunities.
John has specific expertise in Options, Promotional Agreements, Joint Ventures and Conditional Contracts, acting mainly for landowners. John has been involved in projects such as new settlements, to city centre regeneration, provincial sites, large commercial developments and site sales.
The Development Agency team are currently instructed on 6,500 acres in 150 locations across the North West, Yorkshire and the North East.
Matthew has acted for a wide number of Landowner Clients including:
- Royal Estate Sandringham
- Crown Point Estate
- Cecil Family Trust
- Greene King Plc
- North Hertfordshire College
- Cemex
- May Gurney
- Pigeon
- Advice, marketing, disposal and additional tranche disposal of 1,500 unit Residential Development in Grantham.
Project team principle for disposal of the NHC Centre of the Arts, Hitchin, securing a Development Partner and assembling a professional team to progress an application, sale and disposal of a principal asset within the College’s portfolio
Mathew has over 29 years' experience in the property industry and has been directly involved Residential Development in East Anglia since 1998. He specialises in Land Disposals and Acquisition; Strategic Land, Promotion and Option Agreements. He has acted for a wide range of private and public sector land owners companies including Greene King, Royal Estate Sandringham; Grant Thornton, Pigeon, Crown Point Estate, Cemex (formerly RMC), The Diocese of Norfolk & Norwich and North Hertfordshire College as well as private land owners across the region.
He is Head of Residential Development at the Cambridge Office.
Emma is a Chartered surveyor with over 25 years of experience in the property industry, the majority of which has been spent acting for a wide range of clients - private, corporate, public sector and institutional.
Emma is expert in delivering development consultancy and agency services across the residential and commercial sectors. She provides clients with strategic development advice including valuation and viability appraisals, site assembly, disposals including land sales and development agreements, procurement of development partners and the project management of planning and development strategies.
