Creating places of lasting value.
Fitz Partners invests in property development and construction service businesses to create, manage, and grow high-performing projects.
We focus on what the market has overlooked: land that lacks a purpose, stalled schemes, and older offices and commercial buildings. Through planning, design and careful delivery we turn them into high-quality homes and places. Because development, construction services and capital sit within one group, we control cost, programme and risk from first appraisal to exit.
Fitz Partners Group brings together Fitz Property, Fitz Construction and Fitz Capital. Together they find the opportunity, secure the planning, deliver the build and fund each scheme, which cuts cost, speeds delivery and keeps control of risk.
Sources and unlocks land and buildings across residential, commercial and retail sectors, takes them through planning and delivery, and either sells completed schemes or holds them for income in the group portfolio.
Invests in project management, engineering, design and other professional-services firms, helps them grow, and integrates them into our developments so delivery is aligned, in-house and cost-efficient.
Provides the funding behind our short-term development projects, long-term property holdings and construction-services businesses, with a focus on ongoing performance, clear exit routes and a careful balance of risk.
Across the UK, land sits idle: redundant farm and estate land, edge-of-settlement sites, former commercial plots and parcels held back by access, policy or ownership issues. We work with landowners to understand what a site could become, then do the work to make it happen.
We invest in distressed property developments across residential, commercial, and retail sectors, sourcing and delivering projects to generate returns through sale or long-term inclusion in our portfolio.
We invest in construction service businesses, including project management, design, and other professional services, providing capital and support to help them scale operations, strengthen performance and achieve a stronger exit, while integrating them into our developments to reduce costs and improve delivery.
The difference between a site with no purpose and a thriving new neighbourhood is usually a planning consent. We lead that process ourselves, from the first policy review to the final decision, and we take an active part in shaping the local and regional plans that decide where homes are built.
Policy, constraints, access and capacity testing to establish what a site can realistically deliver, before significant money is spent.
A clear route to consent, whether full or outline planning, change of use or prior approval, with the right consultants at the right time.
Representations to local and regional plan consultations to bring sites into policy, including emerging grey belt and housing-need arguments.
Early, constructive dialogue with planning officers, councillors, statutory consultees and local communities.
Preparing and managing applications end to end, negotiating conditions and planning obligations, and pursuing appeals where justified.
Working with housing associations and registered providers so affordable homes are funded, designed in and deliverable.
We identify land without a purpose, stalled schemes and undervalued buildings with clear potential, and commit only where the entry price leaves a margin of safety.
We secure the planning, design and consents that turn an overlooked asset into a viable scheme, and test the exit before committing capital.
Our in-house project management and design teams run the build, with active cost control, quality assurance and health and safety on every site.
Completed homes are sold to housing bodies, investors and owner-occupiers, or held as income-producing assets within the group.
The country builds far fewer homes than it needs. At the same time, land sits without a purpose and older offices and commercial buildings stand undervalued. Unlocking them through planning and good design brings them back into use and creates the homes and places communities need.
Net new homes England needs each year to meet its 1.5 million homes ambition.Source: UK Government housing target
Average completions a year forecast to 2029/30, around half the target.Source: Savills
Fall in regional UK office values since June 2022, creating the opportunity to buy and convert at a discount.Source: MSCI, via Savills
A selection of the residential and mixed-use schemes that show how we work, from rural conversions to city-centre regeneration.
A redundant farm steading and its surrounding land brought back to life as a new rural community, keeping the original sandstone, slate and cart-bay arches alongside sensitively designed new homes.
A stalled brownfield scheme acquired and redesigned as apartments above ground-floor commercial space, opening up a new public riverside walkway.
A vacant 1980s office building re-clad and converted into energy-efficient apartments, with a new rooftop pavilion and an active ground floor.
Exit routes are tested before capital is committed, and we buy only where the entry price gives a margin of safety.
Planning, technical and access risks are tackled early, before major spend, so schemes move forward on firm ground.
Design and construction liability is passed to appointed contractors, with insurance, clear contracts and oversight.
Active construction management, quality assurance and health and safety on every site, aiming for high energy-efficiency standards.
We work with landowners, agents, housing associations and construction-services businesses across the UK.
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