CALA Homes – one of the UK’s fastest growing property developers

A quality landbank for future quality communities

CALA Home is the fastest growing of the UK’s major property developers and housebuilders and is on track to meet its ambitious target of building 2,500 a year by 2020. A stunning result for a housebuilder that concentrates on creating exclusive developments at the upper end of the price scale.

Community placemaking, but not at the expense of exclusivity

CALA Homes is one of the UK’s premier property developers. It builds exclusive developments, with striking, individual and aspirational award-winning homes. It’s rating as a premier housebuilder is matched by the quality of the homes it builds – in stunning locations, these generously proportioned homes benefit from traditional design, contemporary home comforts, and light and bright living areas.

CALA has maintained its guiding principles of exceptional design and build throughout the last 30 years, with management insisting on offering value for money in a wide range of sought-after locations – including waterfront apartments, rural retreats, and urban pied-à-terres.

It also develops to create places – locations where people can build vibrant, sustainable communities, whether it be a countryside development or ‘village in the city’. Homes are designed to look good standing side by side while maturing well in their individually landscaped settings.

Home sales jump as CALA snowballs towards its targets

This year, CALA announced record sales, record revenues, and record profits, despite reducing its average sold price from £538,000 to £497,000.

The number of properties it built and completed on leapt to 1,677 – a 46% increase on the previous year. Revenues rose by 20% to £700 million, and it announced in June 2017 that it would make record profits. CALA is honing in rapidly on its target to build 2,500 homes and achieve revenues of £1 billion by 2020.

It has spent heavily on its land bank this year, snapping up land in prime locations as it has become available under the government’s National Planning Policy Framework.

Industry awards that match CALA’s exceptional reputation

CALA’s quality builds, attention to detail, great location and exceptional individual designs are recognised by its customers and industry peer group alike. Awards it has recently received include:

• An impressive nine site managers for CALA Homes each scooped a prestigious 2017 NHBC Pride in the Job Award in recognition of their commitment to the highest standards in housebuilding
• Customer Service Excellence award at the Scottish Home Awards 2017
• Private Developer of the Year presented by Homes for Scotland
• The Silver Award for the Best Large Housebuilder presented by WhatHouse? In 2016

In its awards cabinet, it also has awards for its marketing and training, and for designing and building the best luxury homes.

Where can you invest in a CALA property?

CALA develops predominantly across Scotland and in the Midlands and South East England. Here we look at two CALA developments that will be launched in the coming months:

Forest Ridge, Coopersale, Epping

Near the vibrant market town of Epping, to the north of London, CALA Homes is developing a stylish collection of 3 and 4-bedroom family homes in the village of Coopersale. The centre of Epping is only two miles away.

Each home has been sympathetically designed to fit in with its surroundings, and benefits from contemporary layout, stylish integrated kitchens, designer bathrooms, spacious interiors, and features the exceptional standard of finish, quality design and specification for which CALA is renowned.

Coopersale is a great location for work/life balance. There are great schools nearby – notably Coopersale Hall Independent School and Ivy Chimneys Primary School.

Commuting into London Victoria and Oxford Circus is around 50 minutes and Liverpool Street less than 40 minutes respectively on the London Underground network. The M11 and M25 are only a short drive from the development. Stansted Airport is around 30 minutes’ drive via the M11.

The Crescent, Edinburgh

The Crescent is an exclusive development in the grounds of one of the most iconic buildings in Edinburgh – Donaldson’s. Just a 10-minute walk into the heart of Edinburgh, the contemporary design of The Crescent is an exciting juxtaposition to the historic context of its immediate surrounds.

The Crescent’s gentle curves sit comfortably within this leafy domain, complementing its equally majestic surroundings. For those who celebrate choice, Edinburgh’s vibrant city centre melds quickly into quiet urban escape as awe-inspiring panoramic views of the city find balance with secluded tree-lined gardens and the peaceful murmur of the Water of Leith. Rich in heritage, creativity and style, this location offers the best of all worlds, reflecting modern lifestyle living. These 1, 2 and 3-bedroom homes are designed to maximise light and space, with dramatic floor-to-ceiling windows providing a seamless transition between the outside and inside.

–CALA is a premium housebuilder in every sense of the word. It has some incredible developments underway and planned. For investors who desire an investment in an exclusive property on an exclusive development, CALA Homes might be the first choice.

Live with passion,

Brett Alegre-Wood