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Land acquisition · Surrey · Hampshire · West Sussex · East Sussex · Kent · Berkshire

We buy small and medium sites within an hour of Guildford.

If you own land within roughly an hour of Guildford, we’d like to take a proper look. Paddocks, back-garden plots or small sites near a station, old yards and tired commercial buildings — those are the conversations we’re having most often, but not the only ones.

A site assessment is free, confidential and carries no obligation. You’ll either get an honest view that your land has potential and a route forward, or a clear answer that it doesn’t. Both are useful.

Request a free site assessment Call Daniel — 01483 331191

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More about how we work

What makes this different

Six things that make this conversation different.

Speak directly to the founder.

No call centre, no junior associate. Daniel runs every assessment himself — that’s the whole point of a focused practice.

Complete confidentiality.

We don’t discuss landowner enquiries with anyone outside our advisory team. We’re happy to sign an NDA before any site visit.

No agents, no chains, no commission.

We’re the buyer. There are no introducer fees on top, no middlemen, and no marketing of your site to anyone else.

Honest answers — including no.

If your site has potential, we’ll explain why and what it’s worth pursuing. If it doesn’t, we’ll say so on the call. No drawn-out maybe.

No obligation at any stage.

Nothing is signed without your solicitor’s review. You can walk away at any point, including after a written offer.

Multiple deal structures.

Straight purchase, option, promotion, or a small joint venture. We’ll talk through which fits your timing and tax position.

What happens next

Three steps. Time-bound. No surprises.

1
Within one working day
A short call
Once you send your details, Daniel will call you within one working day. The call usually takes fifteen minutes. We’ll ask a handful of questions about the site, its history, and your timing.
2
Within ten working days of the visit
A site visit and a written view
If the site looks promising, we’ll arrange to walk it with you — or on our own, if you’d prefer. You’ll have a written view from us covering what the site can do, the planning route, and an indicative offer range.
3
Subject to your solicitor’s review
A formal offer on terms that suit you
If you want to proceed, we’ll put a formal offer in writing. We use a small number of structures — straight purchase, option, or promotion — and we’ll talk through which fits you best.

Daniel Gonzalez and Manni Chopra reviewing a development model — Reviewing a scheme with Manni Chopra, Sempre’s investment adviser.

The sites we’re looking for

Three kinds of site keep coming up in our conversations.

If your land sounds like one of them, we’d like to take a proper look.

A small grass paddock with a wooden gate and hedgerow, with semi-detached houses just beyond the boundary.

Type 1

A paddock or field on the edge of a village or town

You own a piece of land on the edge of a village or town. It might be a paddock, a small grazing field, or an unkept piece of green ground. It may sit inside a designation that has historically meant ‘no development’, but it doesn’t perform the role that designation was designed to protect — it isn’t open countryside, it isn’t a gap between settlements, it isn’t a notable view.

Typical site: a field of one to fifteen acres, near a built edge with everyday services, that you’ve been told for years was untouchable.

A walled grass plot looking towards a railway station with platform canopies and trains visible beyond the fence.

Type 2

A back-garden plot or small site near a station

You own a generous garden, a side plot, or a small parcel within roughly a ten-minute walk of a well-connected railway station. It might already have outline interest, or it might just be land that nobody has thought about properly because it’s small.

Typical site: up to about an acre, within walking distance of a station with frequent London trains.

An aerial view of a derelict yard with two outbuildings and palisade fencing, with residential rooftops behind.

Type 3

A former working site — a yard, a building, a commercial plot

You own — or your family owns — a former working site. A farmyard, a light-industrial site, a redundant office, a closed pub or garage, a former workshop, a tired retail unit. The buildings are empty, half-empty, or just no longer earning their keep. The site has a hard edge to it and isn’t open countryside.

Typical site: previously used land or buildings, currently underused, in or near a settlement.

If your site doesn’t quite fit any of the three above but you think it’s close, send the details anyway. We’d rather see it and say so than miss it.

Areas we’re looking in

Within a one-hour drive of Guildford.

That gives us six counties, in part or in full, and lets us walk every site we consider in a single day.

Diagrammatic — not to scale.

Surrey

Guildford, Woking, Godalming, Farnham, Cranleigh, Haslemere, Dorking, Reigate, Redhill, Epsom — and the villages between.

Hampshire

Aldershot, Farnborough, Fleet, Alton, Petersfield, Basingstoke and the eastern half of the county broadly.

West Sussex

Horsham, Crawley, Haywards Heath, Burgess Hill, Midhurst, Petworth, and the rural belt north of the South Downs.

East Sussex

Crowborough, Uckfield, East Grinstead and the western fringe of the county.

Kent (west only)

Sevenoaks, Tonbridge, Tunbridge Wells, Edenbridge.

Berkshire

Reading (east), Wokingham, Bracknell, Crowthorne, Sandhurst.

Not sure whether your site falls inside the radius? Send us a postcode and we’ll tell you.

Who’s behind Sempre Property

A focused operation with senior expertise on every site.

Sempre Property is a small, focused operation. Daniel Gonzalez leads the business and has brought together a senior team of professionals with deep experience in property investment, architecture and planning.

Sempre Property team around an architectural model — Sempre Property — Daniel Gonzalez with Manni Chopra, Laura Ashton, and Sandra Orlando Payne, reviewing a current scheme.

Daniel Gonzalez

Founder

Incorporated civil engineer with over a decade of experience in the design and management of UK infrastructure projects. Daniel leads Sempre's site acquisition operations end-to-end — from first contact with landowners through to development appraisal — with a hands-on, design-led approach.

Manni Chopra

Investment and Co-sourcing

Seasoned property investor, developer and mentor. Co-founder of Chopra Property Group and host of the Titans Property Meet. Manni brings strategic insight, capital and a strong network to every project, and works alongside Daniel on the commercial side of the operation.

Sandra Orlando Payne

Architecture

Founder of Inhabitat Architects. RIBA Chartered, ARB-registered architect, with a passion for sustainable, context-sensitive design. Sandra advises Sempre on architecture and feasibility — what a site can support, how it will sit in its setting, and how to make the scheme work.

Laura Ashton

Planning

Founder of LAUK Planning. Chartered town planner (MRTPI) with over 20 years' experience across public and private sectors, known for securing permissions on complex sites with clarity and professionalism. Laura advises Sempre on the planning route for every site we take forward.

Frequently asked questions

Ten questions landowners usually want answered first.

Send us your site

Send us your site. We’ll come back within one working day.

If you’ve read this far, you probably want to know whether your site fits. The fastest way to find out is to send us a postcode.

Or call Daniel directly — 01483 331191

Mon–Fri, 9am to 5pm. If we can’t answer, we’ll call back within one working day.