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The London property developer who shies away from the super
At a recent political panel I attended, representatives of all the main parties were in agreement: the biggest problem facing London in the coming years is the chronic shortage van cleef alhambra mother of pearl necklace knock off of affordable housing.
Developers, it was said, just did not want to know. Plenty of flats were being built but they were mostly described as "luxury" with a price tag to match one far beyond the reach of ordinary folk.
If anyone represents the villains of the piece, it's Daniel Van Gelder, chairman of the Westminster Property Association (WPA), the property industry trade body for Central London.
"Our members are made up of the owners, the occupiers and the developers, so pretty much everyone from Crown Estates, Land Securities, British Land and Berkeley Homes to the affordable housing providers. We cover ultra prime to affordable housing, offices and housing."
First, though, something about Van Gelder. He's a major developer himself with Exemplar Properties. His father was also a developer. The family is of Dutch origin, settling in Spitalfields at the turn of the century.
"My father wanted me to go into real estate, and on Sundays when I was a child, he took me round buildings, copy van cleef pearl necklace and said this is something I could deliver. Something tangible. Something I could go back to and be proud of what I'd done.
"He'd point out the good buildings, the bad buildings imitation van cleef black clover necklace and the pretty ones. He used to say the mark of a good developer was a building that was still there 40 years after being built and you could still be proud of it."
Aged eight, he was packed off to boarding school: "My dad always wanted to be able to send one of his kids to private school. He was very proud and wanted the English way. At 13, I went to Harrow, which was another proud moment for him."
After going to Bristol Polytechnic, now the University of the West of England, to study real estate, he spent two graduate years at Richard Ellis.
Other firms and developments followed until "I decided that I didn't want the constraints of a Plc. I wanted to have my own business. We could work on some large scale projects, and do them in our own style, using more imagination".
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He teamed up with Clive Bush to form Exemplar. Their first project was Lyon House, a 240,000 sq ft building in Croydon.
"It was one of those buildings which just wasn't loved. It was owned by a purchaser who hadn't even been to see it. He didn't understand how it worked. We gave it a lot of love. We refurbished the outside, the floors and the reception.
"When we took the building, it was 60% empty. When we sold it, people were moving back in again and it was 70% full. That's what real estate is all about. It requires a lot of love a lot of people just rely on the market moving."
Now, they've got Fitzroy Place: "It's the largest construction under way in Westminster, at 750,000 sq ft. It will be 50 50 homes and offices."
Van Gelder has an apartment at Fitzroy Place and lives there during the week. His partner and two children live on the Hamble River on the South Coast: "I love sailing sailing and backgammon."
Exemplar built new London offices for BlackRock and Rio Tinto: "We have the opportunity of being a very large business. But we don't want that. We have a great family at Exemplar and we are happy to stay this way.
"At any one time, we can be working on one to three million square feet of space. As soon as you start working on four or five schemes, you lose the personal contact and we don't want that. We are not one of those big Plc companies that has a buy team, a sell team, a build team and a marketing team."
They aim at the quality market, but not the very summit. "The Candy [Brothers] market [they developed One Hyde Park] doesn't excite me at all. We like the market from around 800 to 3000 a square foot. I call it the 'aspirational normal market'.
"When you get into the realms of the super rich, you may not want to deal with those sorts of people. And we certainly don't."
It's a nice phrase, "aspirational normal" although it's hard to see what is so normal about a modest, 1000 sq ft flat costing up to 3 million. At the WPA, he's had to put his personal views to one side: "If, in 30 years' time, London is going to remain the great city it is now, we have got to knock heads together, and think about what we need to do together."
Don't be fooled, he says, by all the cranes on the skyline. "You think there's a lot of cranes around in London but really there aren't. At the moment, the office vacancy rate in the West End is at around 3%, pretty much the lowest it's ever been, which means there's competition from occupiers for every bit of space. Which means prices are going up. Residential prices are going up. There's huge demand. London is a world city. Everyone wants to be here. You can't get the space. Even in Canary Wharf, which is why we're seeing some big rents."
Shortage: Quality office space is becoming scarce in London (Picture: Stefan Rousseau, PA)
The way we occupy space is changing. "Particularly in offices," Van Gelder says. "People want large floor plates. We're more reliant on technology. We need power, we need cooling. We need different kinds of services, which you just can't put in offices over shops. We need new buildings."
The housing crisis, he says, "is frightening. We know we need between 40,000 and 100,000 new homes in London per year. It's a huge figure. We also know that the population of London is going to increase by about three million people, from eight million to 11 million.
"It's a huge amount of growth. However, all these people that are going to be living in and around London are also going to need somewhere to work. Something that concerns me is that we're not creating enough new homes, we're also removing offices.
"If you're out of town, and you have a lovely green or brown site, you can choose to either build an office block or housing, and that's great. But if you're in London, where pretty much all the space is used up, you're swapping one use for another.
"Our big concern is what's happening in central London is converting offices to homes. It may sound like a great idea but it's not. Over the last five years we've lost around five million square feet of office space, which is a huge amount of jobs, around 70,000 gone from Westminster alone."
His solution? "We need to build bigger, not huge, buildings. We need to add one or two storeys to certain areas. Crossrail will bring 200,000 more people a day into London. We need to go wider or taller."
At a recent political panel I attended, representatives of all the main parties were in agreement: the biggest problem facing London in the coming years is the chronic shortage van cleef alhambra mother of pearl necklace knock off of affordable housing.
Developers, it was said, just did not want to know. Plenty of flats were being built but they were mostly described as "luxury" with a price tag to match one far beyond the reach of ordinary folk.
If anyone represents the villains of the piece, it's Daniel Van Gelder, chairman of the Westminster Property Association (WPA), the property industry trade body for Central London.
"Our members are made up of the owners, the occupiers and the developers, so pretty much everyone from Crown Estates, Land Securities, British Land and Berkeley Homes to the affordable housing providers. We cover ultra prime to affordable housing, offices and housing."
First, though, something about Van Gelder. He's a major developer himself with Exemplar Properties. His father was also a developer. The family is of Dutch origin, settling in Spitalfields at the turn of the century.
"My father wanted me to go into real estate, and on Sundays when I was a child, he took me round buildings, copy van cleef pearl necklace and said this is something I could deliver. Something tangible. Something I could go back to and be proud of what I'd done.
"He'd point out the good buildings, the bad buildings imitation van cleef black clover necklace and the pretty ones. He used to say the mark of a good developer was a building that was still there 40 years after being built and you could still be proud of it."
Aged eight, he was packed off to boarding school: "My dad always wanted to be able to send one of his kids to private school. He was very proud and wanted the English way. At 13, I went to Harrow, which was another proud moment for him."
After going to Bristol Polytechnic, now the University of the West of England, to study real estate, he spent two graduate years at Richard Ellis.
Other firms and developments followed until "I decided that I didn't want the constraints of a Plc. I wanted to have my own business. We could work on some large scale projects, and do them in our own style, using more imagination".
Related storiesAnnoushka Ducas: Links of London founder sparkling again with second retail successChristopher North: Amazon's UK chief is delivering the goodsDavid Lenigas: Is the Gatwick oil bonanza a con? No fracking way
He teamed up with Clive Bush to form Exemplar. Their first project was Lyon House, a 240,000 sq ft building in Croydon.
"It was one of those buildings which just wasn't loved. It was owned by a purchaser who hadn't even been to see it. He didn't understand how it worked. We gave it a lot of love. We refurbished the outside, the floors and the reception.
"When we took the building, it was 60% empty. When we sold it, people were moving back in again and it was 70% full. That's what real estate is all about. It requires a lot of love a lot of people just rely on the market moving."
Now, they've got Fitzroy Place: "It's the largest construction under way in Westminster, at 750,000 sq ft. It will be 50 50 homes and offices."
Van Gelder has an apartment at Fitzroy Place and lives there during the week. His partner and two children live on the Hamble River on the South Coast: "I love sailing sailing and backgammon."
Exemplar built new London offices for BlackRock and Rio Tinto: "We have the opportunity of being a very large business. But we don't want that. We have a great family at Exemplar and we are happy to stay this way.
"At any one time, we can be working on one to three million square feet of space. As soon as you start working on four or five schemes, you lose the personal contact and we don't want that. We are not one of those big Plc companies that has a buy team, a sell team, a build team and a marketing team."
They aim at the quality market, but not the very summit. "The Candy [Brothers] market [they developed One Hyde Park] doesn't excite me at all. We like the market from around 800 to 3000 a square foot. I call it the 'aspirational normal market'.
"When you get into the realms of the super rich, you may not want to deal with those sorts of people. And we certainly don't."
It's a nice phrase, "aspirational normal" although it's hard to see what is so normal about a modest, 1000 sq ft flat costing up to 3 million. At the WPA, he's had to put his personal views to one side: "If, in 30 years' time, London is going to remain the great city it is now, we have got to knock heads together, and think about what we need to do together."
Don't be fooled, he says, by all the cranes on the skyline. "You think there's a lot of cranes around in London but really there aren't. At the moment, the office vacancy rate in the West End is at around 3%, pretty much the lowest it's ever been, which means there's competition from occupiers for every bit of space. Which means prices are going up. Residential prices are going up. There's huge demand. London is a world city. Everyone wants to be here. You can't get the space. Even in Canary Wharf, which is why we're seeing some big rents."
Shortage: Quality office space is becoming scarce in London (Picture: Stefan Rousseau, PA)
The way we occupy space is changing. "Particularly in offices," Van Gelder says. "People want large floor plates. We're more reliant on technology. We need power, we need cooling. We need different kinds of services, which you just can't put in offices over shops. We need new buildings."
The housing crisis, he says, "is frightening. We know we need between 40,000 and 100,000 new homes in London per year. It's a huge figure. We also know that the population of London is going to increase by about three million people, from eight million to 11 million.
"It's a huge amount of growth. However, all these people that are going to be living in and around London are also going to need somewhere to work. Something that concerns me is that we're not creating enough new homes, we're also removing offices.
"If you're out of town, and you have a lovely green or brown site, you can choose to either build an office block or housing, and that's great. But if you're in London, where pretty much all the space is used up, you're swapping one use for another.
"Our big concern is what's happening in central London is converting offices to homes. It may sound like a great idea but it's not. Over the last five years we've lost around five million square feet of office space, which is a huge amount of jobs, around 70,000 gone from Westminster alone."
His solution? "We need to build bigger, not huge, buildings. We need to add one or two storeys to certain areas. Crossrail will bring 200,000 more people a day into London. We need to go wider or taller."
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