We buy, build and improve property across London and the Home Counties.
Future Ventures is the trading name of 5JE London Limited. We are a small team working with our own money, which means we make our own decisions and make them quickly — there is no committee, no panel of buyers, and nobody’s approval to wait for.
We work across four parts of the property market. They are different disciplines with different counterparties, and we keep them distinct.
Land Acquisition
We buy land with and without planning — garden plots, brownfield sites, garage blocks and larger parcels. We assess what a site can realistically take, what it will cost to get consent, and what it is worth once it has it.
Securing consent is often the whole job. At London Road in St Albans the challenge was planning, and we took the site through to permission for five bespoke executive homes.
Who this is for: landowners, executors, and anyone sitting on a site they have never worked out what to do with. We will tell you what we think it is worth, and why, whether or not we buy it.
New Build Development
Where a site supports it, we build — taking a plot through design, planning and construction to finished homes, and carrying the risk of doing so.
Burlington Place at Church Farm in Barnet, EN4, is eight family homes. Cheshire Green was a new build warehouse development.
This is the slowest and most capital-intensive thing we do, and it is the reason we look at land the way we do: we are not trading sites on for somebody else to work out. We price a site on what we would actually build on it.
Quick and Private Property Sales
We buy houses and flats directly from owners, for cash, on the seller’s timetable. No estate agent, no listing, no viewings, no chain and no fees.
This is the largest part of what we do and the reason most people come to this website. It suits people who need certainty and a date — probate and inherited property, relocation, separation, repossession, short leases, and properties that would struggle on the open market.
The trade is straightforward, and we would rather state it than dress it up. You will not get the price a six-month estate agency sale might achieve. You get speed, certainty, no fees, and a completion date you choose. For some people that is the better deal; for others it is not, and we will say so.
Redevelopment and Refurbishment
Most of what we buy needs work — sometimes a full refurbishment, sometimes a lease extension, sometimes both. We do that work and hold or sell the finished property. In Crouch End we took a semi-detached house to an exceptional standard across more than 4,700 square feet.
It is also why we can buy things other people cannot. A property that no ordinary buyer will touch, and no lender will lend on, is a normal week for us.
Why these four sit together
They are the same skill at different points in a property’s life: working out what something is worth, what it could be worth, and what it costs to get there. We do our own analysis, use our own money, and are accountable for being wrong.
What the research turns up
To buy the way we do, we look at a great deal we do not buy. Every week our own system values property across 207 postcode districts, and it finds far more that is worth having than two people can take on.
Rather than let those go, we pass them to a small list of registered investors. It is not a separate business and we are not brokers — nothing is packaged, nothing is sold on, and there is no fee. It is the overflow from the work we were doing anyway.
They are not deals we rejected. They are deals we could not get to.
Where we work
London and the Home Counties, across 207 postcode districts. We know these areas properly, which is why we can price a property the day we see it rather than a fortnight later.
Talking to us
You will deal with the person making the decision. If you have a property or a site you want an honest view on, we will give you one — usually the same day, and with no obligation.
You can get a cash offer online, see what we have done, or call us on 0203 811 1406.