Design
Room-by-room layouts agreed on site, floor plans and steel calculations where the job is structural, and a written schedule of works before anything is priced.
Liverpool · Southport
Creating
Creating
high-end properties
Design, build, develop and manage — four disciplines under one roof, from the first site visit to the day the first tenant moves in.
DESIGNBUILDDEVELOPMANAGE
Design
Build
Develop
Manage
What we do
Four disciplines. One roof.
Nothing is handed off to a stranger. The people who price the job are the people who build it and let it.
Build
Our own site teams and long-standing trades. Sixteen to twenty weeks for a full conversion, run by one site manager, with progress photographed every week.
Develop
Sourcing, appraisal and delivery. We buy, convert and hold HMOs across Liverpool, and do the same for investors who would rather not run a build themselves.
Manage
Lettings, rent, maintenance and licensing through LivLux — for our own houses and for other landlords.
Portfolio
All developments →
Selected developments
Eight schemes across Liverpool and Southport — six operating, two in progress.
How we work
A programme you can read
We walk the site with you and tell you what we think it will take. We have standing rules we will not break — twelve square metres is the smallest room we will build, fourteen is what we aim for. If the numbers do not work, we say so at this stage, not later.
We walk every room and agree where the beds, wardrobes, sockets, kitchenettes and en-suites go before anything is priced. Where the job is structural, an architect produces floor plans with steel calculations and building control is notified. You get a written schedule of works.
Sixteen to twenty weeks is what a full conversion takes. Chris Mulhaney runs the site and is on it most days. Chris Richards visits weekly and photographs the progress. Snagging is done as we go, not saved up for the end.
Photographs and the advert go up as the building comes to an end, so rooms are filling while the last snags close. The licence is applied for as soon as the first tenant is in. You get the full compliance pack, and LivLux takes over the letting and the management.
50
Rooms under management
Across eight properties
5
HMOs owned and operating
Two more in progress
4
Disciplines under one roof
2
Towns we build in
Liverpool · Southport
The management arm
Once the building is finished, LivLux takes it on — viewings, tenancy paperwork, rent, maintenance and the licensing that keeps an HMO legal. It manages fifty rooms across eight properties, our own and other landlords’.
Anything urgent — a leak, no heating, no hot water — call rather than message. We answer out of hours.
livlux.co.uk →
WHAT LIVLUX HANDLES
Viewings, tenant find and room lettings
Rent collection and tenancy paperwork
Maintenance and out-of-hours cover
HMO licensing and safety compliance
Managed lettings for other landlords too
