Yeats · Development and operating group
Unlocking land. Realising potential.
Yeats develops land and builds the businesses that run on it: Boxroom for self storage, Works for business parks, Yeats Edge for powered buildings, and Yeats Restart for schemes that stalled. We know what each building costs to build and what it earns once it opens, because we build and run them ourselves. Every site is screened, underwritten and managed on Yeats OS, our own operating system.
We're pioneering progress. & propelling potential.
The group
The group behind the brands.
Yeats holds the land, the capital and the development platform. Each operating business beneath it is run on its own terms, under its own name.
Development, capital and Yeats OS. Investors and partners come here.
The platforms
Buy the land. Build the brand. Keep both.
Each platform is a brand we own outright, with its own identity and its own customers, built on land the group buys. Because we run the brands, we underwrite from their numbers: occupancy, rents, build and fit-out cost, demand by location. Yeats Restart, our special-situations arm, buys the stalled and broken buildings and finishes them for the three brands.
01 · Self storage
Box it. Drop it. Done.
Boxroom is the Yeats self storage brand: a consumer brand in a category that has never had one. Purpose-built stores on roads people drive every day, designed and run to our own specification from the day the first store opens. The store reads from the road and the brand is one people can name.
02 · Industrial & parks
first park:
Business parks built to one specification, let and sold unit by unit.
Works plans, builds and runs industrial and business parks to one specification under one brand. Engine Works in Margate is the first: the former Cummins engine factory rebuilt as 59 units for the trades, makers, logistics firms and growing businesses of East Kent, with its own brand, its own lettings platform and its own occupier community.
59 unitsabout 1,700 to 5,700 sq ft GEA, every one EPC A
Two exitslet unit by unit, or sold freehold to owner-occupiers and pension buyers
One specification100 A three-phase, fibre to every unit, rooftop solar, EV charging
Run onlineevery unit's floorplan and price is online; viewings are booked from the site, the hub or the app
03 · Powered buildings
Yeats owns and powers the building. The operator brings the compute.
AI is moving from training in a few remote campuses to inference everywhere a model is used, and inference wants to sit near people. Britain cannot connect new load at that scale this decade. Thousands of buildings are already wired for loads they no longer draw. Yeats Edge buys them, proves the power, and leases them to the operators who run the compute.
Finda building already connected for a load it no longer draws
Provethe supply with the network operator before anything is underwritten
Securethe building and its supply together
Leaseto the operator, who runs the compute; terms are shared under NDA
Sites, capacities and counterparties are shared under NDA
How we operate · Yeats OS
Every site screened by our own operating system.
Yeats OS is the operating system we built for ourselves. It screens sites before we visit, holds every scheme to one underwriting standard, runs the routine with agents a person approves, and shows our partners the same screen we use. It is why a small senior team can run three brands and a special-situations arm, and why we see a scheme's cost and income before we commit to it.
Pipeline · all brands
Triage
Appraising
Acquiring
Building
Operating
GB power schedule · 72,128 buildings
Every network area
Edge · evidence gates
- ✓Owner identified
- ✓Supply confirmed
- Planning checked
A manual tick cannot satisfy an evidence gate
Agents · today
- 09:30Monday brief sent · 4 actions, 2 awaiting approval
- 09:42Scout: 11 new listings across 6 target postcodes
- 10:05Enquiry answered · viewing booked for Thursday
- 10:31Lease event flagged · break notice due in 90 days
- 11:12Bookkeeper: 14 receipts matched, 1 exception raised
- 11:40Power watch: 3 buildings moved up the schedule
01 · Find
Sourced from data
Yeats OS screens 72,000 buildings across every network area in Great Britain before anyone visits a site. The sweep runs weekly; the shortlist is built before anyone picks up the phone.
02 · Underwrite
One standard, every platform
Every deal moves through the same staged pipeline with evidence gates: no capacity is treated as confirmed without the network operator, and no scheme as consented until the decision notice is. The same appraisal discipline applies to a storage store, a park, a compute hall and a building bought from a receiver.
03 · Run
Agents run the routine
Enquiries, lead follow-ups, lease events, bookkeeping exceptions and the Monday brief are handled by agents inside the OS, with a person approving anything that leaves the building. A small team runs three brands because the system runs the routine.
04 · Report
Partners see the same screen
Capital partners get the deal brief, the key dates and the activity feed from the same system the team uses.
Engine Works Park · Margate
One site, from the land up.
- 01 · The landWe buy land Britain has stopped using.
- 02 · The powerWe bring the power in.
- 03 · The frameWe build.
- 04 · The envelopeA building the market can use.
- 05 · The brandRun by one of our operating brands.
- 06 · LifeIt earns, and the land beneath it is worth more.
Portfolio
Every site on one map. Built, sold and underway.
Built schemes, sold schemes and the named pipeline, drawn live from Yeats OS. Yeats Edge sites are never published; the wider appraisal pipeline is shared with capital partners under NDA.
Engine Works ParkWestwood, MargateWorks · Built · letting
Greenwich · The O2Greenwich Peninsula, LondonHotels · Planning consent
StreathamStreatham High Road, LondonHotels · Planning consent
SurbitonBrighton Road, SurbitonResidential · In planning
Weston CourtThames Ditton, SurreyResidential · CompletedPeople
The senior team behind Yeats.
A small, senior team with deep roots in property and construction, running three brands and a special-situations arm on one operating system. Decisions are fast and accountability is clear.
Founder · Managing Director
John O'Neill
Founded Yeats in 2019 after a start in retail, shop fitting and construction and eight years running Veyron, the London private-house developer he set up in 2010. Leads every scheme from sourcing and underwriting through to delivery.
The founder →Director · New York
Niall Lawlor
Based in New York, a partner in Yeats since 2021. A background in fixed income, capital markets and private equity; leads the group's North American relationships, including the operators and capital partners behind Yeats Edge.
Senior team →Established JV partner
Nimol
The personal investment vehicle of Niall Molloy, founder of Echelon Data Centres, built into a £5bn business, and of Aldgate Developments, £1bn+ of large London office schemes. Nimol and Yeats are established joint-venture partners, with £100m committed to the parks platform.
The group →Long-term delivery partners