[AB]About
I am Kian Peake, founder of KJP Property Ltd, a buyers agency and longer stay accommodation search based in Manchester and covering the North. My background is acquisitions and development appraisal on residential and mixed use schemes, so every property I put forward has already been through the numbers.
Sheet 01 / The desk / NTSMy background is acquisitions and development appraisal on residential and mixed use schemes. Most of that work is proving why a deal does not stack before anyone spends money finding out.
That is the habit a client is buying. A buy box is not a wish list, it is a filter, and most of the job is applying it honestly to properties that look good in a photograph. Every property I put forward has already been through the numbers, and you see the ones that nearly made it and why they did not.
Alongside that I have run rent to serviced accommodation in Manchester, negotiated company lets and operating leases with landlords and their agents, and appraised block level portfolios. The accommodation side of KJP came out of that work: I already knew the operators, and site managers kept asking the same question about housing crews.
Retained by named buyers and working for them, from a deal appraisal to the purchase, the refurbishment and the exit. Every property tested on the downside before it reaches you, and every fee agreed in writing before you commit.
Investor servicesWhole houses and apartments for stays of two weeks or longer. Send the brief once and within 48 hours you get two or three properties near the job, each with a cost per head per night. No cost to the company. I am paid by the host.
How placement worksOnce a client is signed, I look for anything that makes the buying side of their business faster, tighter and easier to control, and I build it.
For a social housing investor buying across Liverpool, the Wirral and Crewe, I built their appraisal around the providers they work with: room sizes and specification per provider, a cost database for the works, and the local housing rates pulled through by area automatically. It was handed over for their own use.
For an investor network, I find property against the criteria of their vetted members. Alongside that I am building the onboarding packs those members start from, one per strategy, so every search begins from a written box rather than a conversation.
Because a mandate you cannot service properly is worse than one you turn down. Client details stay confidential, which is why the examples above are described, not named.
I act for one side. I appraise before I send. I put everything in writing. I never hold a client's money.
I coordinate refurbishments; I do not design or build them. I appraise deals; I do not value them for lenders. I make introductions only with written disclosure.
I hold an acquisitions role with a serviced accommodation and company-let operator. Where that creates any overlap with a client's interests, it is disclosed in writing before any negotiation.
I do. I am Kian Peake, and I act for clients directly, from the first call through to completion.
Most appraisal work is proving why a deal does not stack before anyone spends money finding out. Every property I put forward has already been tested on the downside: a lower valuation, a lower rent and longer works.
A small number at a time, because a mandate I cannot service properly is worse than one I turn down. Client details stay confidential.
On LinkedIn, where most of what I am working on goes up.
No. KJP Property Ltd (company number 17018412) is a Manchester buying agent and contractor accommodation finder run by Kian Peake. It is not connected to KJP Property Group or kjppropertygroup.co.uk. KJP Property does not lease homes from landlords or offer guaranteed rent. On accommodation, it finds whole properties for companies and is paid by the host.
The clearest picture of how I think about deals is on my LinkedIn. If you want to know whether we would work well together, start there, or send me your criteria.