Converting Pubs, Chapels and Unusual Buildings

For developers who want to create something distinctive

A closed village pub, a redundant chapel, an old school or a former bank can become a distinctive home that no one else could build, and this book explains how that strategy works. It sets out the market mismatch behind it, who it genuinely suits and why it is one of the least forgiving strategies in property: you take on a change of use, a planning process, often a listed building, building regulations and construction on a structure never designed to be lived in. You will take an honest self-assessment before falling for a building, see the stages of a conversion in the order they must happen, and learn what you genuinely need to begin and which barriers beginners misjudge. A thirty-day plan gets you started properly, and a chapter covers the five mistakes that cost beginners the most. It ends with the numbers you must work out next, because these buildings sell on emotion and are too often judged on it. Next in this series: “The Numbers on a Character Conversion”.

What’s inside

• Why this strategy exists, and who it is really for
• Is this you? An honest self-assessment
• The whole process in five minutes
• What you genuinely need to begin, and what you do not
• Your first thirty days, step by step
• The five mistakes that cost beginners the most
• What you must work out next, and why it decides everything

Educational material only, not financial, legal or tax advice. Results are not typical and are not a guarantee of income. Freedom Property Academy LTD, registered in England and Wales.