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💭 With the holidays just around the corner, it's a great time to pause and look back on what has been a great year at Viability. 📈 2024 has been full of growth and achievements, busier yet since the official launch of out platform in September 🔜 As we take some time to breathe, recharge and enjoy the holidays, we’re already excited about the opportunities that lie ahead in the coming year. 🎄❄️ The Viability team wishes everyone a restful and merry holiday season, looking forward to what 2025 will bring us all.

🎙 Transform how you assess and optimise development opportunities. In my recent episode on the Inside Property Development podcast, I dive into how Viability is transforming the way property developers assess and optimise sites. It’s not just about having all the data, it’s about how you analyse it. With Viability, you don’t just get access to the data; you get the tools to: 🏘️ Instantly optimise house types and sizes based on that data. 📈 Maximise land values with precision. ⚠️ De-risk early-stage opportunities to focus on what matters most. This means less time spent crunching numbers and more time doing what adds real value: 💬 Building relationships with landowners. 💼 Sourcing more deals. 🤝 Closing opportunities with confidence. Whether you want to find more profitable opportunities or focus on closing deals, Viability gives you back the time to do it. #PropertyDevelopment #LandOptimisation #PropTech #Viability

📢 Our take on the 2024 NPPF Changes The UK government has announced significant updates to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), bringing changes that could present real opportunities for developers (while clearly still having its challenges). To help you make sense of it all, we’ve summarised the key changes and highlighted the opportunities they present for developers in our latest blog post. Key topics include: 🔑 The return of mandatory housing targets and updated land supply rules. 🌱 A new policy on "grey belt" land—unlocking opportunities for development in previously constrained areas. 🏗️ The "brownfield first" approach and its potential for urban regeneration. 🌍 How sustainability and affordable housing targets are at the heart of the reforms. 👉 Read our blog post now (linked in the comments) to get the full summary and see how the 2024 NPPF changes could present real opportunities. 💬 We’d love to hear your thoughts, are you excited about these changes? What opportunities do you see in your area? #NPPF #PropertyDevelopment #Viability #PlanningPolicy #HousingCrisis #ModernMethodsOfConstruction

📢 Our take on the 2024 NPPF Changes The UK government has announced significant updates to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), bringing changes that could present real opportunities for developers (while clearly still having its challenges). To help you make sense of it all, we’ve summarised the key changes and highlighted the opportunities they present for developers in our latest blog post. Key topics include: 🔑 The return of mandatory housing targets and updated land supply rules. 🌱 A new policy on "grey belt" land—unlocking opportunities for development in previously constrained areas. 🏗️ The "brownfield first" approach and its potential for urban regeneration. 🌍 How sustainability and affordable housing targets are at the heart of the reforms. 👉 Read our blog post now (linked in the comments) to get the full summary and see how the 2024 NPPF changes could present real opportunities. 💬 We’d love to hear your thoughts, are you excited about these changes? What opportunities do you see in your area? #NPPF #PropertyDevelopment #Viability #PlanningPolicy #HousingCrisis #ModernMethodsOfConstruction

💥 While we're busy ending 2024 with a bang, we’re also taking the time to reflect on our mission and our achievements at Viability in 2024. 🚀 Our feature in The Times managed to capture both. 🏡 It was an exciting opportunity to revisit our motivations to tackle the housing crisis sustainably, and to put our solution in context of the current state of housebuilding regulations in the UK, through the lens of data and analysis. 🤸 As we’ve mentioned before, we believe a certain degree of flexibility is needed in regulations to allow projects to be viable: if the requirements render sites unviable then no homes will be delivered at all, be it market or affordable. Building more affordable housing is critical and more flexible policy might be one of the ways to achieve this. We’re very pleased to have featured in such an influential newspaper on such an important topic. 📰 🤓 If you haven't had a chance to read it yet then head to the article on our website, linked in the comments, or find us on the Times website! #affordablehousing #viability #housingcrisis #sustainability

👌 Even ChatGPT agrees... Viability is the best way to assess development potential 😎 #viability #propertydevelopment #sustainabledevelopment

What an energising day yesterday at the Future Homes Hub Conference! So much to digest, but here are some highlights: 🏠 We still don't have a clear timeline for the Future Homes Standard - the panelists seemed to agree that it will 'come to bite' in 2028-2029, with the last gas boilers installed in new build homes by then. There was a call for more certainty and talks about a Future Homes Standard II, in which the industry would like to have more input. 🌿 BNG is here to stay. Being one of the most nature depleted countries in the world, England needs to make every effort to restore its fragile ecosystems! 💦 Water is a scarce resource and it's encouraging that there is progress in the space. The first reservoirs in the UK being planned since the 1990's! 🏣 Amazing sustainable places and communities can be developed in brownfield sites. We saw two great examples with Brabazon in Bristol by YTL Developments (UK) Limited and in Ealing by Berkeley Group Plc. Thanks Ashley Spearing and Sebastian Loyn for your inspiring talks. 🌳 There's a real effort by the industry to reduce Embodied Carbon. There's a clear transition pathway to net zero (see last photo) and, with the whole sector collaboration, it feels achievable! All in all, a great day to network with #partnersinmission. If you want to know how Viability can help in this journey, please get in touch! #sustainability #homedevelopers #FutureHomesConference #SustainableHousing #ClimateAction #NetZero #BuildingBetterHomes

🚨 New podcast alert 🚨 🤝 Our co-founder Henry Mayell joins industry veteran Paul Higgs MRICS to discuss the nuances of property development and, in particular, getting your numbers right from the start. 🤓 Learn about how to generate accurate development appraisals quickly, and how to use the freed up time for other value adding activities Link to the full episode in the description. Enjoy! #podcast #propertydevelopment #appraisals #viability

🚨 New podcast alert 🚨 🤝 Our co-founder Henry Mayell joins industry veteran Paul Higgs MRICS to discuss the nuances of property development and, in particular, getting your numbers right from the start. 🤓 Learn about how to generate accurate development appraisals quickly, and how to use the freed up time for other value adding activities Link to the full episode in the description. Enjoy! #podcast #propertydevelopment #appraisals #viability

🤔 How do we help property developers to accurately assess, optimise and de-risk their projects in seconds? 👀 Here's viability in under a minute ⬇️ ⬇️ #propertydeveloper #viability #housing #development