Profile

Christopher Bilborough

Over the years I have been fortunate to be involved in most types of property transaction as a principal or as a deal maker. I enjoy negotiating propositions and creating Lateral thinking in how projects can be delivered. Understanding incentives and profits is crucial to engineering a platform that allows everyone involved to succeed. During the last major property slump I was fortunate to have been assisted and advised by Eamon Cannon at Taylor Wessing LLP. Eamon understood the concept of buying in bulk and helped me create a Lateral platform that allowed sellers to sell; buyers to buy well and dealers like me to exist!

Looking ahead the Lateral platform has altered direction; the bulk purchase concept remains the same but the onward sale of the individual parts has moved into a new arena which will provide an exciting opportunity to buy and sell in volume quickly.

My cost cutting experience for other companies has given me invaluable insight into obvious company overlaps that can be overlooked.

History

Yorkshire Escapes LLP

Yorkshire Escapes LLP was formed by Victoria Bilborough in 2017 to provide an upmarket Holiday Let and management business specifically to cater for larger houses.

YouWrk Limited

This company was formed by Tom Bilborough in 2019 to provide a recruitment platform that competes in all sectors.

Foxtons Plc

I was appointed by the CFO of Foxtons Plc to identify areas of cost savings in their existing network of offices throughout London. The brief covered areas that included negotiating exits from existing leases, negotiating new leases on smaller units, overseeing refurbishment of new premises and managing retail agents and solicitors. Generally it was hoped that my presence and strategy would “shake the trees and roots” and I believe I achieved this. I was directly responsible for generating significant cost savings over a two year appointment.

Lateral Investments (Burtree) Ltd

Purchased 18.3 acres of farmland for future Housing; this is WIP.

Fishing Rights

Extending to 1.76 miles of single bank fishing were purchased; the existing pools were cleared and new pools were created. The Fishing Rights were sold in 2020.

Bilborough Farming LLP

A portfolio of Mineral Rights extending to 1760 acres was purchased,managed and subsequently sold.

Lateral Investments (Spalding) Ltd.

This company bought and sold many individual buy to let flats and collaborated with a Global Hedge Fund on various blocks of flats nationwide.

Hamptons International Limited

As northern Director I was responsible for setting up the north of England and Scottish offices.

Emerging Real Estate Ltd.

I travelled Eastern Europe seeking and negotiating suitable projects for the ERE database to purchase on an individual unit basis.

Tiger Developments Ltd.

Opened the Tiger Developments UK office in North Yorkshire, before moving the operation down to Cork Street in London. Built up and managed the UK business whilst overseeing the speculative build and development of two schemes in Basingstoke and Didcot ahead of coordinating the letting and future sale; also purchased a site in Leeds and managed the build project and letting.

Stackallan Asset Management Ltd.

Secured the management and letting of a repossessed portfolio of houses and flats nationwide.

BMB Investments Ltd.

Raised money for BMB through private equity and bought distressed developments, completed then sold.

Crossley Countrywide Ltd.

Crossley Countrywide Ltd was formed in 1990 in the North of England to act as a property manager to the BES funds and to build up its own database of property owners.

Johnson Fry Property Ltd

I was employed by Johnson Fry Property Ltd in June 1988 after the change in the Housing Act. JFP was a subsidiary of Johnson Fry Plc. Funds were raised in many different SPV’s that qualified for private investor BES relief. My role was to travel the country; identify suitable purchases negotiate and agree deals, appoint solicitors, manage the conveyance process and subsequently appoint managing agents to take on the properties to let and manage. I was personally responsible for investing just over £100 million into residential property nationwide.

Merivale Moore Plc

Worked for the commercial Director specialising in purchasing industrial and commercial investments to break – up. We purchased several estates and one large investment portfolio from the Prudential.

Chesterfield and Company

Selling houses and flats in central London.