INVESTMENTS

  • Date
    17 July 2020
    Consensus Capital identified this site for a strategic residential development in the heart of the City Centre of Glasgow. Plans are underway to provide a newly built 15-storey tower of 100 studio and one-bedroom apartments which will be located on the site close to Charing Cross to help meet a growing demand for homes. If approved by planners, it is hoped work on the £20million project will start in Spring 2021 with a completion date set for June 2022. It is anticipated the development will create around 40 jobs. The proposal will create significant economic benefit to the local area, encouraging key workers and graduates to remain in the city and providing a highly connected location for city-centre living.  
  • Date
    19 October 2021
    Moskito Bar & Kitchen, Glasgow  Consensus Capital Group recently completed the transformation of the re-imagined and re-incarnated moskitoglasgow.com.  The vision was not only to celebrate everything that was originally loved about Glasgow’s famed nightlife institution, but to create a stylish and unique restaurant, bar and events space.  That vision became reality thanks to the talented Nicky Emlick and her team at NMDesign London.  
  • Date
    19 October 2021
    In 2019, Consensus Capital Group acquired the basement property of a listed building at 196-200 Bath Street, Glasgow.  The property undergone a multi-million pound refurbishment and fitout and is now the operating premises of the recently transformed Moskito Bar & Restaurant moskitoglasgow.com .     
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    17 July 2020
    In another bid to increase residential accommodation in the city centre of Glasgow, Consensus Capital are in the process of obtaining planning permission to convert an office building into residential flats. The site is located in central Glasgow on St Enoch Square and includes the upper floors of 26-32 St Enoch Square. The proposals comprise the change of use from Class 4 Offices to form 30 new residential apartments, including a complete internal refurbishment of the buildings at first floor level and above, as well as renovating the frontage of the listed building. These plans work towards meeting the aim of Glasgow City Council’s strategy to increase residential property in the city centre.  
  • Date
    17 July 2020
    Consensus Capital are at the planning stage of this exciting new venture to deliver a brand new 67-bed care home situated in the mature grounds of the former Royal Dundee Liff Hospital. The former hospital and grounds have been recently converted to create a wonderful and vibrant village setting for the new facility, which will mainly focus on delivering a specialist centre for dementia care and will feature elements of elderly living, elderly care. With a fast-growing population, and growing elderly demographic within the wider region, Liff Care Facility will provide Consensus with an opportunity to run and grow their presence within the care sector whilst providing an unrivalled home in a tranquil and peaceful setting.  
  • Date
    17 July 2020
    Consensus Capital acquired Northlands Care Home in 2019 and has since increased the homes profitability following a full review of the business. A staged upgrade of the home is being completed including room refurbishments and upgrading and renewing communal spaces. This investment has the potential for growth and has plans to increase the current number of beds. The home is currently made up of two buildings housing 49 beds, 22 in the Manor and 27 in the Lodge. A planning application has been submitted to Perth and Kinross Council to aid expansion plans for an extension to the existing lodge building to create an additional 15 beds increasing the total of beds from 49 to 64.  
  • Date
    6 July 2017
    Clearwater House was previously the Edinburgh headquarters of the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency. It is a modern office and laboratory facility covering 30,000 square feet and is situated on the Heriot Watt University Research Park, the largest and most prominent science park in Scotland. Consensus Capital refurbished the building and subdivided the floor-space into four self-contained office suites with a mix of open-plan space and conferencing facilities. We have been successful in securing a number of tenants including a global scientific research provider and we work closely in partnership with Heriot Watt University itself to fulfil the remaining office supply.
  • Date
    6 July 2017
    44 York Place is located in the city centre of Edinburgh in the retail and leisure hub of Picardy Place. The building was formerly an HMRC office that was extended and converted into a 127 room hotel. Consensus Capital developed the hotel concept for this building which had been empty for three years. Consensus Capital applied for the planning permission for the change of use and designed the conversion to the specific requirements of the hotel operator. Consensus Capital was successful in arranging a long term lease to the hotel chain Premier Inn and also a forward funding and sale agreement with a pension fund investor to create a project with a investment value of £17m.  
  • Date
    6 July 2017
    Winchburgh Village is a 347 hectare masterplan for a new residential community 11 miles west of Edinburgh. The total capital investment required to deliver the project is over £1 billion making this one of the UK’s largest mixed use projects currently in progress. The masterplan brings together over 20 years of partnership between two major landlowners in the West Lothian. Consensus Capital has been an investor in this project since the concept was first developed. The first phase of residential development has been completed by a number of major housebuilders and work is now ongoing with the community facilities and transport infrastructure.
  • Date
    11 May 2018
    Consensus Capital Group’s investment in Groupvest continue to perform well with residential property developments. Two new Groupvest developments are in progress: 1: Hartfield Road, Wimbledon is a residential development of 6 new build flats. The architectural style is in-keeping with the adjoining terraced street scene and internally the flats are contemporary in style. All of the flats have been pre-sold to a private investor and the project is due for completion 2018. 2: Copse Hill, Wimbledon is a development of two new build detached family homes in a prime residential area. The project will be due for completion in Summer 2018.
  • Date
    17 July 2020
    St Margarets opened in January 2012 as a start-up which has since grown to maturity with 121 day children aged from birth to 5 years. The nursery prides itself on its excellent facilities including an outdoor space which provides the children with a park life experience and high-quality indoor spaces. These facilities all play a key role in the children’s development and in securing St Margarets with an outstanding reputation within the sector. St Margarets is proud to be one of the leading nurseries in the capital city of Edinburgh and strives for excellence by regularly reviewing the nurseries offering. The nursery is currently undergoing expansion plans to create an additional two playrooms and an outdoor roof garden.  
  • Date
    6 July 2017
    The Horizon Building is newly constructed apartment block at Lochend Park View a short distance east of the city centre of Edinburgh and close to the open green spaces of Lochend Park, Calton Hill and Holyrood Park. Consensus Capital purchased a cleared brownfield development site from a housebuilder who had become insolvent during the financial crisis. Consensus Capital then obtained the planning permission for the current mix of 1-bed, 2-bed and 3-bed apartments, and with a main contractor built the six-storey property to specification for the housing association Hillcrest Group. The project was completed in 2014 and provides 48 new affordable homes.
  • Date
    6 July 2017
    Craigievar House is located in the East Craigs area of Edinburgh and was previously the regional office of the housing association Blackwood Homes which was founded by the social rights campaigner Dr Margaret Blackwood MBE. The building had been empty and redundant for a number of year before Consensus Capital proposed the re-design and re-use of the property. Consent was granted for the conversion and extension to create 44 residential apartments for the housing association Places for People, 100% of which were Affordable Homes. After completion the development was shortlisted as a finalist for Renovation of the Year at the Scottish Home Awards.
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    6 July 2017
    St Margaret’s Nursery is a successful pre-school with space for 121 children aged 0 to 5 years. The building was previously the Suffolk Hall Hotel and then the boarding house of St Margaret’s School for Girls, from where the Nursery took its name. Consensus Capital acquired the freehold building and invested in the Nursery as a startup. The Nursery is staffed with dedicated early years practitioners and teachers with exceptional skills to nourish the children’s development through natural curiosity with specific attention to their individual needs and as a result children flourish at St Margaret’s.  
  • Date
    6 July 2017
    34-36 Wellesley Road is the centre of Ashford in Kent and this project was a conversion of a former HMRC office building into residential apartments. Ashford is a fast growing commuter town in the south east of England with excellent transport links to London and mainland Europe thanks to the Ashford International Station on the high-speed rail line HS1. Consensus Capital secured the planning permission as one of the first “permitted developments” in the local authority area and the conversion of the building was designed to the specific requirements of the housing association Moat Homes. The refurbishment and conversion completed in 2015 and the building now provides 25 modern affordable homes.
  • Date
    6 July 2017
    The property at Water Vennel is located in the oldest part of the city of Perth but is a relatively modern four-storey concrete construction built in the 1970’s. The property was formerly an HMRC office and been empty for a number of years before Consensus Capital proposed the conversion into residential flats. The building was completely refurbished and converted into 18 Affordable Homes for Caledonia Housing Association. Caledonia Housing Association is one of Scotland’s leading providers of high quality affordable homes for people in housing need with around 4,000 homes under ownership across Scotland in Tayside, Fife and the Highlands.
  • Date
    6 July 2017
    1 Cambuslang Way is situated close to the River Clyde south east of Glasgow. The building is on the office park known as Gateway Glasgow, and is a modern 7,000 square feet self-contained office which was previously let to the multinational oil and gas group BP. BP used the office to run their bottled gas distribution business for the West of Scotland. Consensus Capital refurbished the building at the end of BP’s 15 year lease. The building is now let to the housebuilder Keepmoat Homes. Keepmoat Homes is based in Doncaster, Yorkshire and has grown rapidly in the last five years to be one of the UK’s leading housebuilders having built over 30,000 new homes in the UK.
  • Date
    6 July 2017
    Firewater bar and nightclub is a very popular licensed venue on Sauchiehall Street in the central entertainment district of Glasgow and close to the Glasgow School of Art. Consensus Capital acquired the freehold property following a bank recovery and restructuring and was able to agree a leasehold with the current operators who committed to the building for 25 years. The bar itself is located in the basement of the building and has undergone a recent refurbishment by the operator.
  • Date
    27 June 2017
    Consensus Capital has been a successful independent developer of renewable energy and in particular small wind turbines of up to 1 megawatt. We have applied our expert knowledge in land acquisition and development to add value to a number of UK onshore wind energy projects. Our most successful projects involved the acquisition of land in Cornwall in the south west of England. Consensus Capital was able to deliver the planning permission development, environmental assessments, grid permission development and engineering design, after which we were able to exit this project through a sale to a renewable energy portfolio operator. The capital return on this project was over five times.
  • Date
    11 May 2018
    The 35MW Gas Peaking plant at Westshore Fraserburgh is Consensus Capital Group’s energy investment. A peaking plant generates electricity for the National Grid at times of peak demand. The location and size of this gas peaking plant makes it suitable for accessing the Balancing Mechanism used by the National Grid. As fossil fuel plants gradually get replaced by increasing renewable energy sources, the National Grid requires a flexible approach to cope with the rising energy usage in the UK. A Gas Peaking plant offers this flexibility, with a leasehold of 175 years, and promises to pay back our investment in the first 5 years, generating power for the grid for many years to come.
  • Date
    27 June 2017
    Consensus Capital has invested in developing land rights for the development of electricity demand response services and currently has a large number of sites in development at various stages of planning permission, grid consent and construction. Electricity generation is becoming more distributed and variable, in particular because of the growth in supply of renewable energy generation such as wind and solar. This means that the electricity distribution grid needs to be become smarter, more efficient and more flexible so that it can continue to deliver reliable power to businesses and consumers. Consensus Capital’s investment is driven by the opportunity to make a significant return in the changing energy sector.
  • Date
    27 June 2017
    Consensus Capital was one of the early developers in rooftop solar power and was successful in developing over 3,000 kilowatts of rooftop solar generation in the UK’s largest renewable energy scheme for social housing. This solar deal was also a restructuring deal, coming at the time of the UK’s second review of Feed-in-Tariffs. Consensus Capital’s investment in this sector has enabled over a thousand homes to benefit from renewable energy from solar panels. Solar panels operate silently and without any moving parts of environmental emissions and so solar power has developed rapidly from being a niche market into a mature technology used for mainstream electricity generation.
  • Date
    7 July 2017
    Consensus Capital is an experienced and successful investor in concepts and new ventures. We look for scalable ideas driven by strong and focused management teams. Our sector experience is wide ranging and includes financial technology, marketing, social media, renewable energy and professional services. We are constantly searching for new investment opportunities and we aim to be at the forefront of the development of new ventures and new markets. One of our recent investments has been a subscription for the second round of seed funding for a new trading exchange for cryptocurrencies and other blockchain distributed ledger assets. We anticipate significant growth in the value of this investment after IPO.
  • Date
    7 July 2017
    As a knowledgeable expert investor in concepts and new ventures we look for scalable ideas driven by strong and focused management teams. Our wide ranging sector experience encompasses financial technology, marketing, social media, renewable energy and professional services. We invest in entrepreneurs and management teams who have proven to be successful leaders in their field. We provide additional support to these ventures with our own business and commercial expertise through non-executive directorships, as well as with the appointment of executive professionals with the technical knowledge and industry experience required by the business to grow further and succeed in delivering on its business plan.  
  • Date
    7 July 2017
    We have delivered significant value from restructuring, turnaround, special situations and insolvency recovery. We operate across all sectors and have completed transactions related to food manufacturing, textile manufacturing, renewable energy, building products, creative industries and retail. In one example of a deal we completed, we acquired the trading assets of a food processing manufacturer from Administrators after the company had run into difficulties with over-trading. After stabilising the operating cashflow and order book we were able to negotiate an agreement with a trade buyer who were also a supplier to the previous business, and ultimately sell the new business as a going concern.
  • Date
    31 July 2017
    Consensus Capital has invested in property management company Charlotte Square Property Management to undertake all aspects of tenant and property management for its own properties and other residential landlords. Through Charlotte Square Property Management, Consensus Capital currently manages properties in Edinburgh Glasgow and London and works with landlords, tenants and contractors to ensure the smooth running of it’s property portfolio. In addition, Consensus Capital and Charlotte Square Property Management together have recently completed luxury refurbishments and bespoke development projects in prime residential areas in Edinburgh and London.
  • Date
    11 May 2018
    Consensus Capital Group has made an investment of venture capital in an online marketing platform for lottery syndicates which enable players to share their lottery syndicates across social networks. Syndie is an easy way to play global lottery games with friends. The website and mobile application, www.syndie.co.uk will launch in 2018. “It has been a fascinating journey seeing the technical team working on this project. Combining our business experience with a team of web developers to see an idea develop from its infancy through to a fully functional lottery syndicate website and mobile application.”  Mark Emlick, CEO of Consensus Capital Group.
  • Date
    11 May 2018
    Consensus Capital Group has become a joint venture partner in the UK business of Clubtan. Clubtan is a tanning studio concept established in Denmark in 1995. Clubtan provides automated self-service studios, computer controlled and carefully monitored 24/7.  Using their own technology, the service offers ultimate control to optimise healthy tanning. Clubtan is responsible for a successful network of 120 tanning studios in continental Europe. “Consensus Capital proud to be part of the international growth of Clubtan, a fantastic health and wellbeing clinic soon to open in Edinburgh” Mark Emlick, CEO of Consensus Capital.
  • Date
    26 June 2017
    Consensus Capital’s investment at Charlotte Square consisted of five adjoining townhouse offices in the A listed Georgian terrace on the eastern side of Charlotte Square in Edinburgh’s New Town. Charlotte Square is a garden square which is an important part of the UNESCO world heritage site which was designed by James Craig at the end of the 18th century. The Charlotte Square portfolio was assembled through acquisitions over a period of years and was previously home to the headquarters and registered office of Consensus Capital itself. The portfolio was recently sold on the open market after being refinanced and restructured .
  • Date
    6 July 2017
    10 Chester Street is a B listed townhouse forming part of a Victorian terrace in the West End of Edinburgh. The property is a former office building and was converted into a stunning family house with a separate lower-ground apartment. The development was designed and managed by Consensus Capital all the way from the original application for planning permission and listed building consent through to the interior design and sale of the two completed properties. Consensus Capital retained the car parking at the rear of the plot and have been successful in gaining a further consent for a newbuild mews on the site.