Property has long been used as an investment tool. With the increase in housing need, the simple law of supply and demand has dictated a substantial increase in the value of land for sale. As the saying goes:

"You don't wait to buy land, you buy land and wait."

We are land agents and seek land from a variety of sources across South East England for investors and self-builders. We specialize in land for sale close to existing housing that has been identified as having a good medium to long-term chance of gaining planning permission for residential housing. Residential sized plots of land for sale are then offered to the public, allowing them to share in possible future development gains.

With the dot com crash and the recent accounting scandals the simplicity and transparency of investment in building plots for sale has gained many followers.

There are no complicated concepts that investors need to understand with land, just that we have an ever-increasing demand for building land for sale due to restricted supply of Plots for Sale.

Investors like to invest in land through Land Agents as:

• Land is real
  Unlike shares Land is tangible - it can be visited, seen and walked on.

• There is a limited supply on land
  England is a small country with the majority of the population wanting to live in the South East.

• It is easy to understand and seen as a solid investment
  Land is not open to accounting scandals and it is clear when property prices are going up (or down) and the reason for this movement. For example everyone in England is presently aware of the housing crisis in the South East.

• It is a cheap way to invest in property
  A semi detached house in the South East of England can easily cost 250,000. A residential sized plot of land in the South East of England, close to existing residential homes, can presently be bought from Land Agents for around 15,000.

• Land increases in value in two ways.

  • By increasing property values (due to demand outstripping supply)
  • By land gaining permission to have houses built on it.

For example, a 15,000 plot of land that gains planning permission to build a 4 bed detached house on would then be worth in the region of 200,000 to a builder wanting to put a 600,000 house on the land.

There is an obvious housing shortage in England

The need for housing close to London is regularly reported upon in the press. The only solution appears to be to build more houses. The government have indicated that up to 30% of all these new houses could be built on greenfield sites.