How We Do
from the first site visit to the last
Source the land.
Only then does the platform look for parcels, inside the high-value growth corridors the first two steps named, close to the demand its occupiers serve. Every lead that reaches the platform is logged and screened before anyone travels to see it.
Diligence, and the four screens.
Title, planning, environment, structure and exit comparables are underwritten in-house by the same people who will build and run the asset, and the demand checks run again before signing. Findings from every consultant go into one model as they arrive. Nothing is retyped.
Between diligence and acquisition, every parcel answers four questions. Bankable: will a first-rank lender fund the project with debt against it? Leasable: will an institutional occupier take it on a long lease? Marketable: will a buyer of stabilised assets want it? Exitable: does it sell into the universe already paying for this kind of income? A parcel that fails one is declined, whatever the price. The structure it is taken in, purchase, lease, joint venture or joint development, is decided only after it has cleared all four.
Acquire.
The founder’s capital pays for the checking and the lock-in, then the land is taken in whatever structure serves the asset and the landowner: outright purchase, joint venture, joint development, private or government lease, or allotment.
Develop.
Greenfield construction or refurbishment of ageing buildings, built to institutional specification on cost, timeline and ESG.
Lease, run and exit.
Vantrock leases into demand it has already proven, drawing on a standing network of pre-qualified occupiers across e-commerce, manufacturing, retail and 3PL. Management is designed in from day one, and so is the exit. The exit route, a REIT, an InvIT, a private equity or capital partner, is kept in view throughout, and when the asset is sold, the team that built it hands it over. Proposals, rent and partner reports come from the same record the asset was built on.
Landowners first.
For owners of land in Vantrock’s markets, the platform is the first call worth taking. It transacts in whatever structure suits the asset and the owner: outright sale, joint venture, joint development, or a long lease on which the owner keeps title and earns from the land for decades, with a Grade-A asset standing on it. Which structure fits is decided by the land, not by preference. Diligence is fast, the platform’s capital is its own, and its occupier network is engaged before the first brick is laid. The owner deals with the team that will build, not a committee. All deals are good deals if they pass the four screens. The corridor and the owner decide which structure clears.
Run like a developer. Governed like an institution.
Across the founder’s prior platforms, the teams he led built for, sold to and partnered with the world’s largest institutions. Vantrock holds itself to the standard those institutions govern by. From a board with an independent chair and non-executive directors, to a board-appointed Project Steering Committee on every project, to independent audit and concurrent audit on site, transparency and governance are the two principles the company runs by.
Partner Ecosytem
LET’S BUILD TOGETHER.
The strongest platforms are built together.
Whether you bring land, space to fill, or capital,
we would like to hear from you.
