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Nimbus is a game-changer for Residential Developers and Investors. Match your property requirement to all viable opportunities and connect directly with owners to secure the best possible sites at scale, on and off-market.
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We'll also save you around 80% of the time you spend checking site viability, giving you a full 360-degree view of all the best opportunities in any area - freeing you up to land more deals.
As a residential developer or investor we can help you
- Develop a scaleable pipeline of off-market residential development opportunities
- Connect with owners at scale to acquire at a price that suits you, and on terms that suit you - every time.
- Access all the information you need in one place
- Save 80% of the time you usually spend on researching a site's viability
- Effortlessly check financial viability of any proposed opportunity
- Easily check planning potential for any scheme
Develop a scaleable pipeline of off-market opportunities
Our powerful search tools allow you to identify pre-qualified opportunities at scale, so you can build a scaleable off-market pipeline of sites to target, with or without planning.
Connect with owners at scale
Use our in-built My Sites tool to effortlessly connect with owners of properties and sites that match your requirement. Track interest received and stay organised so you can land the best deals.
Access all the information you need in one place
Access everything you need from the various sources you'd usually go to, including ownership, property sizes, uses, values, planning applications and constraints, comps, and local market trends, all in one place, and in real-time - saving you 80% of the time you'd usually spend checking a site's viability.
Save 80% of the time you usually spend on researching a site's viability
By bringing information together from places such as the Land Registry, councils' planning portals, Historic England, Environment Agency and many more, you no longer need to waste your valuable time bouncing between websites. Our customers tell us that this alone saves them 80% of the time they'd usually spend trawling sites.
Effortlessly check financial viability of any opportunity
Access complete information on residential and land comparables together with commercial property listings and comparables, to give you a complete picture of your predicted sales price as well as existing use and land values of the site you're acquiring, so you can be sure an opportunity truly stacks up.
Easily check planning viability for any scheme
Use our real-time planning information to instantly see planning histories on or around a target site together with potential planning constraints such as flood zones, listed buildings, greenbelt and AONB that could impact your proposed development. Make a swift assessment of whether your site will obtain consent or not.
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residential developers
Site-finding tools
Find opportunities that match your property requirement using the in-built filters to search by size, use, site density, planning constraints and more, or use the OS Mastermap search tool to target underdeveloped sites.
Permitted development (PD) rights searches
Use Nimbus strategy overlays to instantly plot opportunities where PD Rights, such as Class MA, ZA, G, A, AA apply, having first checked for planning and financial viability - so you can be sure you're targeting sites where obtaining planning will be quicker and easier.
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Contacting owners and project management
Nimbus' inbuilt project management tool, My Sites, allows you to contact owners at scale so you focus on working with only those that are prepared to work with you on sensible terms and at prices that work for you - while also keeping you organised and tracking interest received.
Property information
See all the information you need on a site in a single click - including ownership, property sizes, uses, values, planning applications, constraints, and more, saving you 80% of the time you would usually spend on assessing a site.
Comprehensive comparables and quoting prices
Our comprehensive Residential and Land Comparables tools together with Commercial property listings and comparables give you a complete picture of not only your predicted sales prices but also the existing use values and land values of the site you're acquiring so you can be sure the site truly stacks up, regardless of what you're buying.
Planning histories and constraints
Use our real-time planning information to see planning histories on or around a target site and view potential planning constraints such as flood zones, listed buildings, greenbelt and AONB that could impact your proposed development.
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