EVP Properties creates distinctive small community developments — intimate closes and cul-de-sacs of individually crafted homes, built to an uncompromising standard in the villages and market towns of the South East.
We believe the best places to live are not built at scale — they are composed, home by home, around the character of their setting.
EVP Properties specialises in high-end residential developments of a deliberately intimate size: private closes, courtyards and cul-de-sacs of just a handful of homes. Each scheme is designed around its landscape, its light and its neighbours — never forced onto them.
Working across Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Essex, Cambridgeshire and the wider South East, we take carefully selected sites from first sketch to final snag with the same team, the same standards and the same attention to detail throughout.
A selection of our recent and forthcoming schemes. Every EVP development shares the same DNA: generous plots, considered architecture and a genuine sense of neighbourhood from day one.
A gated development of five luxury bungalows, taken through planning and delivered in full by EVP — and nominated by Hertfordshire Building Control for an LABC award for best small new housing development. Every home is now sold.
View at Lanes Exclusive Homes
The complete transformation of a large corner plot: a full refurbishment of the existing property alongside a brand-new three-bedroom detached home on its own landscaped corner plot, built in just eight months. Both homes are complete and now offered for sale through Jonathan Hunt.
View the New Home at Jonathan Hunt
EVP's next chapter: a refurbishment and new-build scheme of five to six detached homes in the sought-after village of Melbourn — register your interest for early details and first release.
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Where it all began: substantial four-bedroom townhouses over four storeys — some 3,500 sq ft of space, engineered around a full basement level — in the heart of Ware, delivered and sold before Chalk Stream Close.
View Build PhotosDevelopment is only part of what we do. If you have land, an opportunity or a project of your own, EVP brings three decades of construction and land experience to the table.
With or without planning permission. From single plots to whole sites, we're always looking for our next opportunity — we assess quickly, deal directly and see potential others miss.
Tell Us About Your LandWe partner with landowners and investors to unlock a site's full value — EVP brings the planning, delivery and sales expertise, and you share in the result.
Discuss a PartnershipOur award-winning site leadership, supply chain and build standards, put to work on your own project — managed from first groundworks to final handover.
Start a ConversationEVP Properties began, fittingly, with a piece of land that deserved better. For twenty-five years, Managing Director Edward Pearce built and ran a series of successful Hertfordshire businesses — among them a much-loved reclamation yard and tree nursery centre that became something of a local institution. Three decades in construction had taught him exactly how things should be built; a lifetime in business had taught him what people genuinely value.
In 2018, Edward met Alex Smith — an award-winning site manager forged in the exacting world of the national housebuilders. The two recognised in each other a rare complement: Edward's eye for land, planning and commercial opportunity, matched with Alex's uncompromising technical delivery. Soon after, they embarked on their development journey together.
Their first project set the tone: the old nursery and reclamation site itself, reimagined as a beautiful gated cul-de-sac of luxury bungalows. The scheme proved hugely popular — every home sold, and the appetite for genuinely high-end homes in the area was emphatically proven.
EVP has gone from strength to strength since, acquiring a small number of exceptional sites in the villages and market towns of Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Essex and Cambridgeshire. Every scheme is overseen personally, from land acquisition and planning through to the final walk-through with each buyer — fewer homes than most, better homes than nearly all.
Edward has spent more than 30 years in the construction industry and 25 of them running successful businesses of his own — including the popular reclamation and tree nursery centre whose site became EVP's first development. He founded EVP Properties to focus exclusively on small, considered schemes built without compromise, and remains personally involved in every site.
Alex leads delivery on every EVP site. His career with national housebuilders including Kier and Bellway saw his developments collect multiple NHBC Pride in the Job awards, a Seal of Excellence and a national NHBC health & safety award — the standard he now brings to every EVP home, from first groundworks to final handover.
The stages most buyers never see. On site at New Road, Ware: a reinforced raft foundation, a full basement level and traditional blockwork — each built to the same exacting standard as the finishes above.
Browse by development — every image is identified by the scheme it belongs to.
Draft note: Gladstone Road photography is shown via the selling agent's listing; New Road, Ware is shown during construction — finished-home photography and Orchard Mews imagery can be added when supplied.
Whether you're interested in a current development, a forthcoming release, or have land you'd like to discuss — we'd be delighted to hear from you.
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