A property group,
not a contractor.
One team,
end-to-end.

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Plan / Design / Build

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North West

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Our story.

Switch Property Group was founded on the belief that property shouldn’t be complicated. With the right plan, the right structure, and the right people, the journey from concept to completion can be clear, efficient, and ultimately more profitable for clients. This philosophy has been shaped by the combined experience of Nick and Dean, whose distinct backgrounds create a balanced partnership grounded in insight, process, and proven delivery.

Nick’s expertise lies in property investment. Over the past 13 years, he has built a diverse portfolio across residential, semi-commercial, and commercial sectors. His approach has always been simple: create a plan, execute it well, and ensure every decision serves the long-term strategy.

Having personally sourced, redeveloped, and managed a portfolio now worth over £2.3 million, Nick has experienced every stage of the process first-hand. His passion is helping clients navigate that same journey — from pre-purchase assessments through planning, design, and delivery — with a level of clarity and structure that removes unnecessary friction.

Dean brings more than 15 years of construction, quantity surveying, and project management experience across both client-side and contractor-side roles. His background spans everything from refurbishments and conversions to multimillion- pound new builds, including largescale residential schemes and city-centre commercial developments.

Throughout his career, Dean has refined a process that takes projects from initial concept right through to completion, ensuring budgets, timelines, and quality remain controlled. His goal has always been to elevate the service standard across the full property lifecycle — safeguarding clients’ investments and delivering exceptional outcomes.

Though their strengths differ, it’s this dual perspective that defines Switch. Nick brings the strategic, investment-led mindset; Dean brings the technical and operational discipline. Together, they see projects from every angle, anticipating challenges before they appear and identifying opportunities that others often miss.

This collaboration creates genuine value for clients - sharper strategy, smoother delivery, and developments that perform as well in reality as they do on paper. Switch Property Group continues to build on this foundation. Drawing on decades of combined experience — from £3 million leisure redevelopments to multi-plot residential new builds and dozens of individual property transformations — the business is built to offer clients something better: a complete, end-to-end service that makes property development clearer, smarter, and more effective than ever.

The whole brief, one team.

Switch was started because the same problem kept turning up on other people's sites. Strategic decisions made by someone who'd never be there to deliver them. Drawings drawn by people who'd never seen the slab poured. We built the alternative.

Most property failures aren't construction failures. They're decisions made too early, by the wrong people, and never revisited.

Ant came from planning. Dean came from delivery. For most of a decade they watched the same handovers go wrong — every project losing a little time, a little budget, and a lot of design intent every time the brief crossed a desk it shouldn't have.

Switch started in 2014 as a deliberate fix: a planner and a builder in the same room, both accountable, both signing off. The planners who unlock a site stay on the project through design. The designers who shape it stay on it through build. Nobody hands off and walks away.

Ten years on, we're a team of 22 — chartered planners, architects, technologists, surveyors, project managers and a delivery crew of our own. One contract. One number to call. One brief carried the whole way.

Nick & Dean

founders • switch property group

A decade of building it.

From a two-person planning consultancy to a 22-strong end-to-end property group. The shape Switch is today was earned project by project.

● 2014