Yeats · Land and capital group
Unlocking land. Realising potential.
Yeats is a land and capital group. We buy land and buildings Britain has stopped using and build branded operating businesses on them — Boxroom for storage, Works for industry, Yeats Edge for compute, and Yeats Restart for the buildings that stalled on the way. Each one earns income and lifts the value of the land beneath it. All of it runs on Yeats OS, our own operating system.
As at October 2026 · Published facts; the appraisal pipeline is shared under NDA
We build what the world is short of.
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.
Land, capital and development. 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. The buildings are the balance sheet; the brands are the compounding asset. Yeats Restart, the group's special-situations arm, feeds them the stalled and broken buildings nobody else can finish.
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 first day of trading. The building is the billboard; the product is one people can name.
02 · Industrial & parks
first park:
Your own unit. Finished, powered, ready.
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 lead engine and its own occupier community.
59 units1,540 to 5,154 sq ft, every one EPC A
Rent or ownweekly rents, or the freehold outright, in your own name or through a pension
Built in100 A three-phase, fibre to every unit, rooftop solar, EV charging
20 minutesa viewing takes twenty minutes; the app has every unit's floorplan and price to hand
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: contact centres, exchanges, print works, process buildings
Provethe capacity, with the network operator's letter on file, not an estimate; every figure labelled confirmed, indicated or assumed
Securethe site and the supply together, with the enabling works done by Yeats
Leaseto the operator on an operator-pays lease; Yeats holds the land and the power
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 the group built for itself. AI, data and our own software run the sourcing, the underwriting, the chasing and the reporting, so a small team can run four businesses at once.
Pipeline · all brands · 7 live
Triage
Appraising
Acquiring
Building
Operating
GB power schedule · 72,128 buildings
Every network area · spare substation capacity, flood, planning, ownership
Edge · Proving power
- ✓Registered owner identified
- ✓Network operator letter on file
- Agreed import capacity confirmed
- ✓Flood zone and planning history 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, not inboxes
Yeats OS screens 72,000 buildings across every network area in Great Britain against spare substation capacity, flood risk, planning history and ownership. The scout runs every week; 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: a site is not 'powered' until the network operator's letter is on file, not '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 do the chasing
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, not a quarterly PDF assembled by hand.
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.
People
The team behind Yeats.
A small, senior team with deep roots in property and construction, running three brands on one operating system. Lean by design: decisions are fast and accountability is clear.
Founder · Managing Director
John O'Neill
Yeats sources, underwrites and delivers every scheme with one accountable team, from the land to stabilised income. Capital relationships are built over years rather than for any single transaction.
The founder →Director · New York
Niall Lawlor
Based in New York. Leads the group's North American relationships, including the operators and capital partners behind Yeats Edge, and has worked alongside John since 2021.
The team →Established JV partner
Nimol
The personal investment vehicle of Niall Molloy — £1bn+ of large London office schemes delivered; founder of Echelon Data Centres. Nimol and Yeats are established joint-venture partners, with £100m committed to the parks platform.
The group →Long-term delivery partners