From One Self-Build to Developing

Turning a personal project into a business

Many self-builders finish their first home and realise they could do it again for profit. This final book is about turning that personal project into a development business. It shows you how to standardise what you can, build a process library and treat the programme as the spine of every project. You will see which roles you must give away, the professional team you need and the contract that governs your trades. The funding chapter, where small developers most often come unstuck, explains how development finance works, the new costs of building to sell, why borrowing is a risk as well as a fuel, and how tax structure and funding are linked. Further chapters cover live cost and cashflow tracking, site management and accounting, and the new legal duties, warranty risk and other risks that arrive when you build to sell rather than to live in. It ends with a twelve-month plan from self-builder to developer. This is the final book in the Self-Build & Custom Build series.

What’s inside

• The systems that let you build again and again
• Building the team around you
• Funding growth without over-leveraging
• Software and automation that pays for itself
• Managing risk as you get bigger
• Where self-teaching stops working, honestly
• Your twelve-month plan from self-builder to developer

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.