Two-bedroom terraced homes
The starter houses on most of our sites, usually at the ends of a terrace run or around a courtyard.
- Open-plan kitchen and dining room
- Downstairs WC
- Allocated parking
- Turfed rear garden with fencing
Residential developments across the United Kingdom
We buy the land, take it through planning and build the houses ourselves — then tell you straight what is still available on each site.
Race and Lingard Developments is a residential developer. We buy land, take it through planning, build houses on it and sell them to the people who will live in them. That is the whole trade, and everything further down this page is part of it.
The schemes we take on tend to be small and medium sized: an infill plot between two older streets, a brownfield yard behind a high street, the edge of a village where the planners will allow a handful of houses. They are laid out as streets with frontages, bin stores that are not in the way and parking that was drawn before the houses were, rather than as a repeating pattern dropped onto a field.
We carry our own site management and work with trades we use again from one development to the next — groundworkers, bricklayers, joiners, roofers, electricians and plasterers. The same site manager who sets out the foundations is the one who walks you round at handover, which is the simplest way we know of making sure the snagging list is short and the answers are consistent.
A finished house from us is a brick-and-block or timber-frame home with a fitted kitchen, tiled bathrooms, turf down at the back, the drive laid and the services live. It is ready to move into on the day you get the keys, not a fortnight afterwards.
Photographs from our developments — the build as well as the finish.
House types we build, and the two ways people buy them. Availability changes site by site — ask and we will tell you what is left.
The starter houses on most of our sites, usually at the ends of a terrace run or around a courtyard.
The house type we are asked about most often, and the one we build most of.
Usually a small number of plots per development, on the larger corners.
Reserving before a house is finished, while choices on the inside are still open.
For buyers looking at more than one plot on the same development.
Layouts, plot sizes and specification vary between developments. Images show the style of homes we build and are indicative of a given plot.
We buy the land and promote it through planning rather than taking on someone else's consent. It means we can answer questions about why a street runs the way it does, because we drew it.
Parking, bin stores, footpaths and front gardens are set out first, then the house types are fitted to them. Nobody ends up reversing onto a main road or carrying bins through a kitchen.
The same person who shows you round the plot handles your reservation, keeps you posted during the build and meets you at handover. You never have to explain your purchase twice.
Our companion app lists the developments and the plots still available, and shows progress on a plot you have reserved — roof on, windows in, plastered, kitchen fitted.
Send an enquiry naming the site or the house type you are interested in. We come back with what is still available, the plot layout and the stage the build has reached.
We meet you on the development. Where a house is still a shell you go round it in boots and a hat; where a show home is open you see the finish you will get.
The plot comes off the market and we confirm in writing what is included on it. From there your solicitor and ours deal with the paperwork and we keep the build moving.
Keys, manuals, meter readings and a walk round with the site manager. Anything on the snagging list is logged that day and put right by the trade that did the work.
Most of the homes we sell are bought before they are built out. That is normal in this trade and it is usually the better deal for the buyer — the earlier you reserve, the more of the inside is still an open question. What it asks of you is patience and a developer who keeps you informed, and the second part is on us.
Once a plot is reserved we treat the build programme as something you are owed sight of, not something you ring up to ask about. You get photographs at the stages that matter — foundations in, frame up, roof on, windows and doors, plaster, kitchen, drive and turf — and a plain account of where the programme stands if weather or a supplier has moved it. Dates change on building sites; the thing we can control is that you hear about it from us first.
On completion day: a house that is clean, heated, tested and connected, with the appliances commissioned and the garden laid. A folder with the appliance manuals, the certificates for the work and the details of who to call about each element. And a site manager who is still on the development for the next phase, which is the most useful thing about buying on a site that is not finished.
Tell us which site or house type you have in mind and we will come back with what is available on it.
Someone from the team will be in touch shortly with availability for the development you asked about.
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