Artemis
Special Situations Origination

Artemis sources property situations that are not on the open market, establishes what is actually transactable before anyone is approached, and introduces them to acquirers whose registered mandate they fit. You tell Artemis what you buy. You see what matches it.

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The approach

Sourced.
Qualified.
Then introduced.

Nothing is advertised, listed or broadcast. A situation reaches you only once it has answered for itself, and only if it fits what you said you buy.

Situations

What You
Will See

Ownership and Succession

Where more than one person has to agree

Situations where the obstacle is who controls the asset rather than the asset itself. Establishing authority to sell is the first thing Artemis does, and it is the thing most often missing when an off-market approach falls apart.

  • Probate and deceased estates, including property held pending grant
  • Executors or administrators working to a defined timetable
  • Co-owners or beneficiaries who cannot agree a course of action
  • Relationship breakdown where a sale is directed or agreed
  • Owners acting through an attorney or deputy
Register a mandate 

Financial Pressure

Where the timetable is set by someone else

Situations where a lender, an office holder or a court is setting the pace, and certainty matters to the seller more than the highest headline figure. The debt and consent position is established before you are approached, not after.

  • Lender pressure, arrears or an expiring facility
  • Bridging finance approaching term without an exit
  • Receivership, administration or insolvency of an owning entity
  • Assets held by an office holder who needs a disposal route
  • Owners who need speed and certainty more than price
Register a mandate 

The Asset Itself

Condition, title, planning and use

Property a mainstream buyer or a mainstream lender will not take on in its current state. What is wrong with it is stated plainly in the summary you receive, including what remains unresolved, rather than left for you to discover.

  • Long-term vacant, derelict or uninhabitable property
  • Fire, flood, subsidence or significant disrepair
  • Non-standard construction, short lease or enfranchisement issues
  • Title defects, restrictions, covenants and access disputes
  • Stalled or part-built schemes, and lapsed or unimplemented consent
Register a mandate 

Portfolio and Corporate

Whole positions rather than single units

Owners exiting at portfolio level, and assets held inside a company where the shares may be the subject rather than the property. Occupancy and tenure across a mixed holding are established unit by unit before anything is put in front of you.

  • Landlords exiting, retiring or consolidating
  • Whole-portfolio disposals where individual sales would take too long
  • Property held in a company; group restructuring or solvent wind-down
  • Tenanted stock, including regulated tenancies and contested possession
  • HMOs with licensing or enforcement problems, and unsold or residual units
Register a mandate 

A mandate can be narrow. If one of these is the only thing you want to see, say so, and it is the only thing you will be sent. What you exclude is as useful as what you include.

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Acquirers, investors and developers
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Owners, executors and office holders
"Register what you buy, and see what matches it. Nothing is advertised, listed or broadcast."
Frequently Asked Questions

Before You Register

What Does Registering a Mandate Involve?

Four short steps: who you are, where and what you buy, how you fund and how quickly you can move, and what you will not consider. It takes a few minutes, nothing is verified at that stage and no documents are asked for.

Does It Cost Anything, or Tie Me In?

Registering costs nothing, is not exclusive, does not oblige you to transact and does not stop you sourcing anywhere else. You can narrow, widen or withdraw a mandate at any time. Fee arrangements, where any apply, are agreed in writing with the relevant party before an introduction is made.

What Does "Qualified" Actually Mean?

That a specific set of questions has been answered before you are approached. A situation that cannot answer them does not reach you.

  • Who controls the asset, and who else has to consent
  • Authority to sell, evidenced rather than asserted
  • The real timetable, and what is setting it
  • Debt secured on it, and the lender or office holder position
  • Title, planning and any legal process attached to it
  • Occupancy, tenure and condition
  • What remains unresolved, stated rather than omitted
How Much Will I Be Sent?

Only situations that match the mandate you registered. Artemis does not run a distribution list and does not broadcast. No volume of introductions is promised, because that would depend on what is submitted rather than on anything Artemis controls.

When Am I Asked to Prove Funds?

When a specific situation is on the table, not at registration. Evidence of ability to transact at the level concerned is what makes an introduction worth the other party's time, and it is asked for then rather than as a barrier to registering.

What Does Artemis Not Do?

Artemis does not give investment, legal, tax, valuation or financial advice, does not arrange or broker regulated finance, does not hold client money, does not acquire or take any interest in a situation it introduces, does not negotiate for either party, and guarantees no deal flow, price, funding or completion. Every party takes its own advice.

Not an acquirer

Two Other Ways In

I Have a Property Situation

If you own, control or are professionally responsible for one, as an owner, executor, director, office holder or adviser, you can submit it for review. No cost, no obligation, and Artemis takes no interest in the property by receiving it. Submit a situation.

I Come Across These Situations

For agents, solicitors, surveyors, accountants, insolvency practitioners and brokers who meet them in the course of their work and want somewhere to take them. Any referral arrangement is a separate conversation, agreed in writing. Introducer enquiry.