How we works with Investors
1) Understanding your requirements
We start with a conversation to understand what you're looking to achieve from your investment. We'll discuss your preferred areas, available budget, timescales, preferred strategy and appetite for risk.
2) Your Investor Profile
Your requirements are kept within our investor directory, allowing us to quickly identify the most suitable opportunity for you for when it comes to LPS. As your circumstances or investment criteria change, your profile can be updated accordingly.
3) Finding the opportunity
We continuously assess the market for suitable opportunities, looking beyond standard listings to identify properties with genuine potential. Alongside on-market opportunities, we work with estate agents and industry contacts to access properties before they reach the wider market or opportunities that may never be publicly advertised.
4) The Numbers
This our personal favourite, here opportunities are truly brought to life, it’s more than just an idea once it’s backed by figures. We assess the purchase price alongside acquisition costs, refurbishment requirements, financing considerations, rental potential, projected yields, potential resale value and timescales.
Where appropriate, this is supported by comparable market evidence and current local market conditions. The aim isn't to make an opportunity look attractive… it's to establish whether the numbers actually stack up!
5) The Recommendation
Once an opportunity has been fully assessed, we run through the analysis with you in as much or as little detail as you would like. We then bring our professional judgement to the table, highlighting which opportunities we believe are most viable based on your requirements, and just as importantly, which ones we don't believe stack up.
The decision is ultimately yours. We don't believe in pushing an investment simply because it is available; our role is to give you the information and insight needed to make your own decision.
Fees are discussed transparently on a case-by-case basis and are only applicable when you decide to proceed with an opportunity. To protect the interests of both LPS and our investors, certain project-specific information may only be released once the relevant agreement is in place. This ensures opportunities we have sourced and developed cannot simply be passed on without LPS's involvement.
Once you're happy to proceed, we'll clearly outline the applicable fee and the scope of what is included before you commit.
Investment Strategies
Property investment can be approached in a number of different ways, with each strategy offering a different balance of income, growth, capital requirements, timescales and risk. At LPS, we work primarily across three models:
BRRR - Buy, Renovate, Refinance, Rent
Buy-to-Let
Property flips
Understanding the differences between them is important when considering an opportunity, as the same property can sometimes lend itself to more than one approach. Below is a straightforward overview of how each strategy works and what it aims to achieve.
Buy To Let
Buy-to-Let is one of the most established forms of property investment: purchasing a property and renting it to tenants to generate an ongoing rental income, with the potential for longer-term capital growth. While the model is familiar, finding the right property and getting the numbers to work is where LPS can add value.
Not every investment needs a major refurbishment. We can identify straightforward Buy-to-Let opportunities that require little or no work, where the purchase price and rental potential already make a compelling case. Equally, there are properties where targeted improvements can increase rental income or improve the overall investment position.
The Buy-to-Let market has become more demanding, with increasing regulation and responsibilities for landlords, including changes such as the Renters Rights Act 2025. This has caused some traditional landlords to reconsider their portfolios or leave the market altogether. While this creates additional considerations for investors, it can also create new opportunities for those who understand the changing market and are prepared to approach it correctly.
LPS isn't looking to reinvent a tried-and-tested model. Our aim is to make finding the right Buy-to-Let opportunity more efficient, using the same straightforward principles while doing the searching, analysis and legwork for you.
BRRR - Buy, Renovate, Re finance, Rent
BRRR is a strategy centred around creating value through refurbishment and then retaining the property as a long-term rental. The property is purchased, improved through renovation and subsequently refinanced based on its new value, with the aim of recovering some or all of the capital originally invested before renting it out.
The strategy can allow investors to recycle their capital into future investments, while retaining ownership of the original property and its rental income. However, the numbers need to work at every stage. From the initial purchase and renovation through to the refinance and long-term rental position.
LPS can guide you through each stage and work alongside trusted mortgage advisers to help establish the refinancing options available for the specific property.
Property “Flips”
A property flip involves purchasing a property with the intention of improving it and selling it for a higher value. Unlike BRRR or Buy-to-Let, the end goal is not to retain the property, but to realise the value created through the refurbishment by selling once the works are complete.
Flips can range from relatively straightforward cosmetic improvements through to more substantial renovations or reconfigurations. The opportunity comes from identifying where the cost of improving a property is less than the value that can be added, creating the potential for a worthwhile margin.
The key is understanding the full picture before committing. Purchase costs, refurbishment, finance, professional fees, selling costs and the time required to complete the project all need to be considered alongside the anticipated end value.
For LPS, a successful flip isn't simply about buying cheaply and selling for more. It's about understanding what can realistically be changed, what the market will pay for it and whether the potential return justifies the work and risk involved.
Renovation Management
Your Investment. Our project to manage.
Once you've found the right property, the renovation can quickly become the most time-consuming part of the investment. LPS takes care of the management, coordinating trades, materials and the construction programme while keeping you informed throughout. From quotation to completion, we manage the moving parts on your behalf, allowing you to benefit from the investment without taking on the stress of managing a refurbishment yourself.
With a background in Quantity Surveying, we place strong emphasis on cost control and keeping projects on budget. Every project is assessed with an appropriate contingency, while regular financial and construction reporting helps identify issues early and keeps you informed of progress.
The level of involvement is yours. Before work begins, we'll agree how you want the service to operate, from regular communication and involvement in decisions to a more hands-off approach. This can also change as the project progresses. We deliberately limit the number of renovation projects we take on, allowing us to give each investor the attention and oversight their project deserves.
What We Manage …
Quotation & Procurement
A comfortable budget is in place from the initial analysis from when the property was sourced, our aim throughout procurement is to improve on this initial allowance where possible. Any savings can increase the potential return while also creating a larger contingency safety net to absorb variations or unexpected costs later in the project.
Trades & Contractors
Appointing and coordinating the appropriate trades from a pool of trusted trades whom we’ve built relationships with, ensuring works are properly sequenced and contractors have what they need to carry out their work effectively.
Materials & Deliveries
Ordering materials where these aren't supplied by contractors and coordinating deliveries to ensure materials are available when they're needed.
Programme & Progress
Creating and monitoring the construction programme, continually looking for ways to keep the project moving efficiently. Progress is shared openly with investors, including any delays or changes to the expected programme.
Site Management
Regular site visits to oversee progress, check that works are being carried out as expected and keep trades coordinated on site. Being present throughout the project allows issues to be picked up early and dealt with before they become larger problems.
Costs & Variations
Monitoring expenditure against the agreed budget and managing variations or unforeseen works as they arise, with the investor kept informed before significant additional costs are committed.
Quality, Snagging & Completion
Monitoring the standard of works throughout the project, coordinating snagging and ensuring outstanding works are addressed before the refurbishment is signed off and completed.
… Your Time & Energy !
Most importantly, we give you back your time and energy. LPS takes care of the refurbishment so you can focus on the investment, not the day-to-day demands of delivering it.