A finished development that is not let is a finished development that is costing you money. Empty units mean no income, no proof of rental value for buyers, and a building that feels dead. We take new-build schemes from practical completion to fully let quickly, then run them as a managed block.
Developer lettings is the work of turning a just-completed scheme into a let, income-producing building at speed, then keeping it running. It has three phases: lease-up (getting multiple units tenanted quickly from a standing start), handover (coordinating snagging, meter setups, keys and compliance across a whole building at once), and ongoing management (running the block, or the retained rental units, once the scheme stabilises). It is a volume and coordination problem, not a single-tenancy problem.
Speed to first let is the whole game. Every week a unit sits empty after completion is income you never recover, and finance costs that keep running. A standing start of ten or twenty empty units needs marketing, viewings, vetting and move-ins run in parallel, not one at a time. That is a different operation from filling a single flat.
Let units also help you sell. If you are selling to investor buyers, a tenanted unit with a real rent on the books is far easier to sell, and evidences the yield you are quoting. We can tenant units ahead of sale so buyers see proven income rather than a projection.
After completion, the building still needs running. Once units are let and sold, someone has to manage the block: communal areas, service charges, building compliance and leaseholder relations. We carry that through via our block management service, so you are not handing a finished scheme to a fragmented set of agents.
New-build residential developers completing apartment schemes in and around central Manchester who need the whole building tenanted quickly, whether the units are being retained as rental or sold to investors with tenants in place.
Build-to-rent and retained-stock developers keeping some or all of a scheme as a rental investment, who want a single operator to lease it up and then manage it long term rather than passing it between letting and block agents.
Conversion and refurbishment developers bringing older or commercial buildings back as residential, who need help positioning the finished product, setting realistic rents, and filling it before finance costs eat the margin.
Developers selling to investor buyers who want units tenanted ahead of, or at, sale so buyers are purchasing a proven income stream, which supports both price and speed of sale.
Developers who have been let down on handover before, where snagging, meter setups and compliance across a whole building were left to drift, and who want one operator holding the checklist for the entire scheme.
Filling a development is not the same task as filling a flat, scaled up. The coordination is the point. This is where a developer-focused operation differs from a standard high-street letting agent.
| Dimension | Standard letting agent | Developer lettings (Beyond Stays) |
|---|---|---|
| Lease-up approach | One unit at a time | Whole scheme in parallel |
| Speed to income | Slow, sequential | Fast, units filled together |
| Handover coordination | Not their remit | Snagging, meters, keys, compliance tracked per building |
| Investor-buyer support | Rare | Units tenanted to evidence yield at sale |
| Rent setting | Comparable-guess | Realistic per-unit pricing across the scheme |
| After completion | Handed off elsewhere | Continues as managed block |
| Single point of accountability | No | Yes, one operator for the whole scheme |
We start before practical completion. While the build finishes we prepare marketing, set per-unit rents based on real local demand rather than a single headline figure, and build a viewing pipeline so there are tenants ready to move as units come available, not a cold start on completion day.
Handover is run against a checklist for the whole building: snagging logged and chased, meters and utilities set up, keys and access controlled, and compliance (gas, electrical, EPC, fire) in place per unit. One operator holds the list so nothing falls between the developer, the contractor and the letting side.
Once the scheme stabilises we carry it into ongoing management: retained units run on the right letting strategy, and the building itself managed as a block through our block management service, with communal areas, service charges and leaseholder relations handled. You hand over a finished scheme once, to one operator.
Ground-up residential blocks in and around central Manchester. Coordinated lease-up gets the whole building tenanted and income-producing quickly, then we run it as a managed block.
Older or former commercial buildings brought back as residential. We help position the finished product, set realistic rents, and fill it before finance costs erode the margin.
Schemes where you are keeping units as a long-term rental investment. One operator leases them up and manages them ongoing, so the asset is run coherently from day one.
Send us the development location, unit mix and target completion date. We come back within 48 hours with a lease-up plan, realistic per-unit rents, and how ongoing block management would work.
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