What is DevAssist?
A COMPANY THAT IS HERE TO HELP
We know what we are looking for because that is what we do, and always have done.
The DevAssist management team combines a powerful range of complementary skills – sales, management, land acquisition and disposal, planning, architecture, surveying, building etc.
DEVASSIST – WORKING FOR YOU
DevAssist will dramatically improve the service levels of solicitors and make property purchase safer. Risk elimination and risk exposure is at the heart of everything we do.
The DevAssist management team are senior professionals with decades of experience in the property, planning and development industries. Most have had experience at board level with large corporate developers. Their range of complementary skills ensures that DevAssist delivers unique and valuable insight into development risks and opportunities.
In recognising the clear lack of awareness by solicitors and their clients about development risk the suite of Dev products takes away the mystery and brings valuable, and sometimes alarming clarity to property buyers and legal professionals alike.
We focus on creating clear readable reports that deliver clarity and enable decision making, safe in the knowledge that the whole picture is understood.
We are a success story, and that is because of our innovative and continual adaption in what we do. Never standing still, continually improve.
Within two years of launching the business was nominated for three major business awards.
We were especially thrilled to be awarded the winner of the Sussex Most Promising New Business for 2013. Being a Sussex business it meant so much to be recognised for this prestigious award.
Paul Addison, Founder and Managing director of DevAssist says:
“Whilst the most difficult reports that take the longest are the most financially unproductive for the business they are by far the reports we are the proudest of. Finishing a report that has the potential to save someone from a huge mistake is very rewarding.”
Sussex Most Promising New Business for 2013
Service provider of the year
DevAssist have created a huge and fast growing client base that has recognised the improvement we deliver in service levels and the risk that we remove from professionals and their clients.
We are 22 days into January, and we have been inundated with orders, 32% of which have so far exposed a high risk o…
We’ve made the DevAssist searches standard on all our residential property purchase cases. A report that provides information, not only about existing planning applications, but also a professional opinion on the potential for future development in the vicinity of a property is a hugely valuable resource to the purchaser client. Providing the DevAssist report ensures that our clients proceed with a purchase with their eyes wide open and this fits with our ethos of providing a first class service and fully supporting our clients’ needs.
DevAssist Team
DevAssist is the only company that audits locations for development risks and opportunities.
You could be buying or selling property with no knowledge of how views could be altered or removed due to new developments.
Have the neighbours ever attempted to obtain planning permission for a new build development?
Are they trying to achieve permission for a basement or an extension?
Why are the vendors selling?
This comprehensive report provides greater depth of information on potential risks. Recommended as the ‘go-to’ choice for risk-adverse property purchases under 40 acres, its search area extends 75m from the boundary. It looks at traveller sites, the Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment, local policy, listed buildings, the five-year housing supply and changes to nearby major infrastructure. Greater depth of this report can reveal alternative exit strategies and potential hidden value in properties.
Sometimes you just need to investigate whether a piece of land or an asset has development potential. This report examines the hidden potential or alternative use in a property that may increase its value. Widely used by solicitors, estate agents, asset managers and debt recovery experts for identifying where land values may exceed existing use values, the report protects professional indemnity insurance from the risk of underselling property assets. With HMRC making random checks on property assets being sold, this report gives solicitors peace of mind that they have adequately assessed any development potential.
A Fast Track service is available on all of our products, subject to request.
“I can’t see why any solicitor would not urge their client to invest in a DevAssist search”
With solicitors PI being one of the most common contributory factors to solicitors going out of business can you afford not to protect it? DevAssist have created the only reports of their type in the country. We investigate and audit a location so that buyers of property can purchase with peace of mind, or in the knowledge that change is coming. By understanding change it prevents any blame to the solicitor and increases service levels. Please also see our section on client care wording. Exposing unknown risks and obeying compliance rules is essential for all parties concerned.
If you are concerned about development and need help or wish to discuss how DevAssist can improve your service levels please contact us by phone or email.
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