Other Tenures
Fruition Properties has successfully delivered other tenure types, bringing the same precision and value-driven mindset we apply to residential and commercial development into other sectors.
Other Tenures
Not every project falls neatly into residential, commercial, or airspace categories. At Fruition Properties, we also deliver a wide range of specialist and alternative tenure developments, including care homes and the recovery of distressed assets, applying the same commitment to design quality, financial performance, and stakeholder collaboration that defines all our work.
Whether acting as development manager for clients, supporting lenders, or delivering projects alongside JV partners, we have extensive experience unlocking complex, non-standard schemes and steering them towards viable, high-quality outcomes.
Our team is adept at navigating the unique design, compliance, funding, and operational challenges of specialist assets. We work closely with operators, investors, lenders, and planning authorities to resolve complexity, safeguard value, and maximise returns across a wide variety of project types.
Our Experience includes:
- Care homes – delivering efficient, modern facilities designed to meet the needs of residents while optimising space and operational performance.
- Distressed and stalled assets – stabilising, restructuring, and recovering challenging schemes to restore compliance, viability, and value.
- Co-living and build-to-rent – designing for flexibility, community, and long-term investment value.
- Mixed-use regeneration – integrating multiple uses into cohesive, sustainable urban schemes.
CASE STUDIES – CARE HOMES
Neem Tree Care Centre – Greenford
Appointed as development managers for Sunflower Healthcare, we increased capacity from 49 to 57 beds within the same building envelope. We managed planning, demolition, procurement, and construction through to completion, delivered within budget and ahead of schedule.
By combining our developer’s mindset with our client-focused delivery expertise, Fruition Properties is able to work across a variety of tenures, bringing vision, commercial acumen, and technical excellence to every project.
CASE STUDIES – DISTRESSED SITES
Mixed Use Development – Thurrock, RM17
Fruition Properties is driving the successful delivery of a build-to-rent, mixed-use development comprising 42 one- and two-bedroom apartments across five storeys. The scheme is complemented by four flexible ground-floor commercial units, designed to revitalise the local area and create an attractive addition to the town.
Appointed as Development Manager midway through a struggling construction programme, Fruition Properties has taken a proactive role in steering the project back on track, ensuring it is delivered on time, within budget, and optimised for efficiency and durability in the rental market.
Since our appointment in spring 2024, we have applied our expertise in design, procurement, and cost control to renegotiate the existing Section 106 agreement, securing savings of over £500,000 for the client, and value engineering and then re-tender the site enabling us to appoint a new contractor.
We also worked with the client and a new lender to bring on development finance to fund the remainder of the project which is now on course for completion in winter 2025.
In addition, as part of our approach, we identified an opportunity to optimise the scheme by adding further apartments to both the top and ground floors, unlocking additional value for the client. This development is a clear example of Fruition Properties’ ability to take on distressed part-built project, rebuild confidence and transform the site into high-quality, sustainable build-to-rent homes that meet client objectives while contributing to local regeneration.
Residential Conversion – Surrey, GU3
Fruition Properties was appointed as Development Manager on a stalled office-to-residential conversion of three 1980s office blocks, reconfigured into 128 high-quality apartments and was tasked with completing residual construction, interior fit-out, landscaping, utilities and critical compliance works.
Our role as development manager included: resolving outstanding planning and building regulation issues (among them deviations from the approved drawings, such as missing private balconies), decommissioning an old electrical substation, implementing EV charging, and finalising lighting and landscaping. We also managed the insurance, warranties, and S106 obligations.
The scheme’s ownership and financial structure were complex, the blocks were held by different subsidiaries, with separate lenders, and with sales having stalled, some units were let to stem losses, but that had inadvertently breached planning obligations. Meanwhile, tenant complaints about management were hurting income, and local authority enforcement risk loomed.
We intervened to stabilise and restructure the project. Through technical review and coordination with contractors, we resolved design and construction defects, secured compliance, and reinstated the development’s sales value. We reshaped the sales and marketing strategy to maximise exit value, and oversaw interim block management via our sister company to restore tenant satisfaction and income stability.
Additionally, we re-engineered the service-charge and asset-management arrangements to align with long-term value for owner and occupier alike. Our intervention preserved the client’s upside while mitigating risk, turning a distressed scheme into a compliant, sale- or rent-ready residential asset.