The Developers Guide To Small-Scale Development: Add Value and Raise Income
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This session will discuss ...
The most accessible value-add projects for investors.
How to judge whether a refurb or reconfiguration genuinely improves profit.
Understanding the numbers: cost, contingency, margin, refinance potential, and exit.
Common mistakes on small developments: overspecifying, poor contractor management, weak planning assumptions.
When a light-touch improvement beats a bigger, riskier project.
Shaunak Rauniar, co-founder of The Developers Club is joined by Axel Gossart, Deepika Paruchuri & James Cross.
Speaker Profiles
Shaunak Rauniar has been involved in the property industry since his teenage years building experience in residential and commercial development. He's been involved in a range of development projects across Greater Manchester, with a practical end-to-end understanding of how development deals are acquired, structured, and delivered. Today the focus is firmly on long-term value creation.
The Developers Club is a community for aspiring and established property developers looking to grow and scale their development businesses. Members come together to learn, share, guide, collaborate and celebrate with one another. The organisation is built around shared experience, practical insight, and long-term thinking, with a strong emphasis on execution, accountability, and growth.
Axel Gossart began his career working for a global engineering business, solving complex challenges across transportation and water infrastructure. He started his property journey with a single residential unit, applying the same structured, problem-solving approach to property development. As his experience grew from project to project, he transitioned to working with JV and private investors, delivering multiple private and affordable housing projects across the Midlands. To date, he's raised close to £1 million in equity investment through structured partnerships.
Today, Syntix Properties is a dynamic property development company breathing new life into tired buildings with a clear aim: to deliver 1,000 life-changing homes by making property investment accessible, structured, and rewarding for our partners. They help professionals and business owners turn saved income into long-term property portfolios through clear, hands-off models built on transparency and disciplined execution.