Scope of Services
Country House Consultancy
We provide a tailor-made flexible service particularly designed for new owners of Country Houses. Our expertise includes finding staff, dealing with tenancy and rights of way issues, managing land, making and managing grant scheme applications, overseeing property improvements and renovations; all of which are important in running an efficient Country House.
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Property Sales & Acquisitions
Greens sell and acquire properties for clients ranging from landed estates and farms to country cottages. We have sold and purchased property on behalf of clients throughout England and overseas.
Forestry
We manage both commercial forestry plantations and amenity woodlands; our expertise ranges from timber harvesting to tree planting. We advise on woodland grant schemes and have an excellent working relationship with the Forestry Commission. We also have strong links with many timber contractors and operators throughout the country.
Strategic Advice
We provide strategic and policy advice matching property owner requirements with realistic solutions. This includes reviewing current strategies, exploring potential opportunities and advising on the implementation of the best fit solution in each case. We are able to provide ongoing day to day management advice or deal with one off instructions where required.
Environment and Conservation
Greens have a wealth of experience in preparing and managing environmental schemes in both upland and lowland environments. While the grant scheme process can be both cumbersome and bureaucratic, it can warrant good financial and prescriptive returns. Greens have an excellent working relationship with Natural England and many other government agencies.
Sporting
Greens are one of the leading experts in the management of upland sporting estates and manage some of the most prolific grouse moors in the country. We also offer advice on lowland pheasant and partridge shoots and, increasingly importantly, we advise on health and safety aspects
for shoot days.
We also work closely with most of the leading sporting agents in the country. Through our contacts, we are able to buy, sell and host days shooting as well as days fishing and stalking.
Staff Recruitment
We recruit staff for clients including estate managers, game keepers, gardeners, domestic staff, foresters, nannies, grooms, handymen, PAs, secretarial and accounts staff. We are able to run payrolls, issue contracts of employment and deal with disciplinary procedures if required. We are also able to arrange staff training where this is necessary.
Planning and Development
Greens
have been instrumental in successfully obtaining planning consents
on many property types. We have experience in conventional
planning applications - property extensions, renovations and
the conversion of traditional agricultural buildings. We also
have experience in more unusual planning cases - a miniature
steam railway, an airfield hard runway and heli-pads. Furthermore,
we have recently led a team of professionals who were retained
to consider the future development of a sustainable village
settlement of 2,000 houses in the South East of England.
Valuation Services
We are able to offer a comprehensive valuation service for property owners, accountants, solicitors and lenders to the property industry. This includes advice on sale and purchase of estates, farms, country houses and cottages, assessment of current use and property investment potential and valuation for taxation, accounting and lending purposes. We also deal with compulsory purchase and compensation claims.
Landlord and Tenant
Greens currently manage a large tenanted portfolio of residential, commercial and agricultural properties. We find suitable tenants, negotiate terms and deal with the preparation of relevant tenancy agreements.
Management Accounting
Greens provide a full management accounting service which includes the preparation of budgets and monthly management accounts. We administer payrolls, submit VAT returns, manage and reconcile bank accounts and keep financial records. We also work closely with client’s accountants and are able to provide them with working papers for audit purposes as and when required.
Property Renovation and Improvement
We have overseen the renovation and refurbishment of a number of derelict properties and have a wealth of contacts to call upon offering architectural and building surveying advice as well as advice on interior, garden and landscape design.
Estate and Property Management
We manage a wide range of rural properties throughout the UK ranging from large extensive upland estates in northern England to small farms in the South East. We manage let farms, commercial and residential property portfolios; rural estate management is at the heart of our business.
Telecommunications
With
over 12 years experience in the Telecoms Industry we are well
positioned to provide a professional and personal property consultancy
service to the network operators, throughout the UK.
The telecommunications industry has grown rapidly over recent years and as the market matures the requirements of the Network Operators are changing. As a result an increasing number of landlords are being represented professionally, advancing the need for equal and appropriate representation on behalf of the Network Operators. Greens therefore aim to provide this professional support by negotiating the best possible lease terms for the tenant and by striving to keep rent levels down.
Our scope of services includes:-
- Negotiating and completing rent reviews on behalf of the tenant.
- Negotiating lease renewal heads of terms and working with the operator’s solicitor to complete the documentation.
- Obtaining landlord’s consent to site sharing, alterations and upgrades and where required negotiating variations to existing lease terms to permit site sharing, assignment, alterations, upgrades, redevelopment, site expansion.
- Providing advice and solutions to landlord and tenant issues in conjunction with the operator’s legal team.