Arcvelop Investor Group

Arcvelop Investor Group (AIG) was formed in 2021 by Directors, Marc Turnier, Andrew Graham and Mike Clay. With over 25 years of combined property experience, AIG was created to develop neglected characterful properties into new commercial and residential mixed use schemes. Delivering high quality, unique design solutions is at the forefront of every development.

With existing portfolios across the UK, AIG saw the opportunity to combine the skills of the Directors and focus on three prominent UK locations where each of the Directors are based, London and Kent, Norwich and Sheffield.

AIG now has a development pipeline of 30 units and are working closely with several private investors. If you are interested in working with us please click here to discuss investment options.

Marc Alexander Turnier

ARB RIBA BArch (Hons) MArch (Dist) PGDip (Dist)

Director

Marc is the Founder and Managing Director of Arcvelop. A chartered UK Architect, he has worked at some of the UK’s most renowned and largest architectural practices, Foster + Partners and Allies and Morrison, where he delivered landmark mixed use, commercial and residential schemes from £50m to £150m GDV across the World. He has delivered schemes for some of the largest global developers in London, Dubai, Australia and Valencia.

In recent years Marc has contracted as Design and Development Director for various high net worth Private Equity Property Companies in Central London, focusing primarily on commercial and residential conversions of medium to large value-add schemes ranging in value from £0.5m to £30m GDV.

Through Marc’s experience and expertise in design-led conversions, Arcvelop offers the unique opportunity to combine first-in-class architectural design and development into investment projects, working with a growing number of clients, JV Partners and it’s own growing portfolio. Arcvelop now has a breadth of projects across London, Kent, Leeds and Nottingham.

Mike Clay

Director

Mike had a long and successful corporate career before he started investing in property:

•11 years with Accenture consulting with focus in Outsourcing and Technology deployments. Mike ran teams across Europe, America and Asia helping clients such as Unilever, Btand Microsoft with strategy, technology implementations and outsourcing

•Mikes last project was to successfully outsource IT, HR & Finance departments for an £8bn company across 75 Countries to three different offshore delivery centres

•Mike left consulting to spend more time with his young family and became CIO of May Gurney, taking over a failing IT department and transforming it to hit all KPIs -60 Staff £15m budget

•IT director for a large UK building firm –Kier with 200 Staff with £27m Opexand £15m Capex Budget. Mike was recruited to take over a failing IT department and within 18 months transformed it to meet all KPIs and save 15% off the cost base

Property experience

•Mike Started to invest in property in 2018 to seek a better work/life balance and has built a portfolio of 2 vanilla BTL and 14 HMOs.

Andrew Graham

Director

Andy has been investing in HMO properties for over a decade, and his story began in 2009. Andy had qualified as a physio but immediately began to build a portfolio of student HMO properties simultaneously. For several years he balanced his professional career (eventually becoming a clinical specialist) with his portfolio, until he decided to hang up physio boots to focus on his property business.

In 2015 and Andy co-founded Smart Property, a specialist HMO property investment and management company. He started working with John Pauland the business began to grow rapidly. In 2016 Smart Property was valued at £1.3m by Crowdcubeafter we successfully raised equity investment to support their growth. The company now has over 200 shareholders and has since gone on to grow the business multiple times. In 2019 Smart Property managed approximately 100 HMO properties and have raised several million pounds of private investment to date (including the development and management of a private fund).

Andy has overseen the acquisition and development of over 50 properties of varying size and type although predominantly these have been residential dwellings under 250m2 Andy writes as a regular columnist in different magazines about a variety of property topics and he is the host of The HMO Podcast which receives in excess of 2500 downloads per month. In additional to Andy’s personal portfolio and Smart Property, he has also built a successful property training and education programme that currently services approximately 50 clients and is growing month on month.