Millbank Land Academy first started training big deal sourcers, property traders and developers in 2013 when land acquisition, planning and large-scale property development was not a commonly taught strategy in the property education arena. Interest in property development has grown in popularity over the past few years, with many attempting to move into this area because of recent UK tax reforms around property investment.
850+ Students Taught
6250+ Units Developed
150+ Planning Permissions
With over 36 years’ industry experience, Founder Paul Higgs has all the knowledge and skill required to show you how to leverage every opportunity, whilst preventing you from making the costly mistakes that can have far-reaching consequences. Paul started his career labouring on building sites and did his first small-scale refurb in 1984 at the age of 17. Intent on becoming a property developer and believing (wrongly) that property development was all about building, he studied Construction Management whilst completing increasingly larger development deals and worked his way up to Site Manager by the age of 21. Having realised that development is really about land and planning, he then studied Land Economics part-time at University, making sure he had a good grounding in both practical and theoretical property development.
Qualified as a Chartered Planning & Development Surveyor, Paul progressed his career and honed his management skills by holding senior positions in the development industry for the next 10 years – first with Laing Homes and then Barratt Developments, the biggest developer in the UK – before escaping the corporate world to start Millbank Group in 2002. Millbank Group is now a multimillion-pound property development company and in 2013 won the Evening Standard New Homes Awards.
All of our training here at Millbank Land Academy is designed to provide two things:
-A real insider’s understanding of the development process that will massively improve your skills at every stage.
-A property development community where you can solve problems, build relationships and find partners.
With these as our two prime objectives, the bespoke training we’ve designed will both turbo-charge your development skills and upgrade your development peer group.
Along with a detailed introduction to how the land market, the planning system and development really works, Site Finder™ training is designed to teach you the first skill. Development Intensive™ then gives you the rest of the inside secrets and all the know-how needed to successfully negotiate and secure the deal, navigate the design, planning and development phases.
What you get with every Millbank Land Academy course:
On-demand – start learning when you’re ready
Self-paced – speed through or take it at your own pace
Feedback – get your specific questions answered
Resources – all our templates, processes and letters, ready to use
Develop the first and most important skill required by sourcers and developers alike – finding and realising genuine off-market land and planning opportunities. Starting with a thorough grounding in the contextual planning and market knowledge critical to all profitable development projects, this 1-day training will teach you how planning really works and give you the confidence to identify, research, approach and introduce the very best off-market sites.
Learn MoreLearn the complete end-to-end land, planning and development process, providing the insider-secrets that every professional property developer needs to know in order to maximise every opportunity and gain the very best return for any development project. Everything from how to structure deals, how to maximise saleable space, optimising site design, how to succeed in the planning system and how to value land, is shared in this 3-day, 30+ hours intensive.
Learn MoreFind and create highly profitable ‘real’ off-market opportunities. Control and leverage opportunities to create maximum returns (even if you have little or zero funds of your own). Maximise the use of your time and make big profits as you switch-on your radar to the opportunities that are already all around you.
Learn MoreUnderstand the 7 key steps industry insiders use to identify real off-market land, assess and secure the best deals, and win optimised planning permission in this short but thorough overview.
Learn MorePerfecting your relationship building and negotiation skills is key to getting property development deals done on terms that work for you. In this course, we show you the specific language and negotiation techniques for successfully reaching workable agreements with landowners.
Learn MoreSerious property developers are masters at understanding numbers. In this training, we show you exactly what you need to know to ensure your deals stack up and deliver the scheme and profits you predict.
Learn MoreIn this course, learn how to put together highly lucrative and profitable deals using the pound-for-pound highest returning deal structures and gain a massive advantage over other developers. Discover the ins-and-outs of Land Assemblies, Option Agreements and Promotion Agreements.
Learn MoreA hands-on practical guide to finding sites, going beyond the theory and showing you how to find genuine off-market sites for development in the real world.
Learn MoreDiscover how recent changes to the planning system have changed the game, where to find new opportunities and angles and get a head start on the competition. This course shows you how to take advantage of the biggest changes to planning legislation for a generation, including the new PD Rights and Airspace Opportunities.
Learn MoreGet our entire collection of premium content to massively accelerate your development journey, starting today. We hand you everything you need in this package, including the very same templates, processes and letters we use in our property development business to get deals over the line.
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