About Leo

A main contractor, development managers and quantity surveyors — focused on co-living, hospitality, HMO and residential.

Leo brings together JBP Developments' build record, a co-living delivery playbook written inside one of Europe's leading operators, and our own trades network. One team that can take a site from feasibility to a stabilised building.

£140m+
GDV transacted
£85m+
Capex deployed
300+
Beds delivered
11+
Years, RIBA 0–7
What makes Leo different

Three things most builders can't put in one room.

Build

A real main contractor

JBP Developments is a turnkey main contractor delivering RIBA stages 0–7. We hold the trades and run the site ourselves — we don't broker the build to someone else.

Spec

An institutional co-living playbook

Our growth lead built the London delivery model for Cohabs, a global co-living operator backed by institutional capital. We build to the standard those buyers actually purchase.

Labour

Our own trades pipeline

Through Jobs With Skills we have 30,000+ vetted, CIS-compliant trades on tap — so "direct to trade" is a supply chain we control, not a promise.

Cost

QS discipline throughout

Every scheme is appraised, budgeted and cost-controlled by our own quantity surveyors, from the first feasibility through to final account.

Founding team

The people who deliver it.

James Beare

James Beare

Managing Director

A fully qualified and chartered construction manager with over 10 years' experience in the industry. Specialising in design management and coordination, he prepares project briefs, submits schemes to planning and coordinates all technical information to the build teams.

His approach is to collaborate objectively with every client, working to ensure all project aims are met and expectations exceeded.

Victoria Bosworth

Victoria Bosworth

Commercial Director

An experienced project manager with over 17 years in high-level roles, including work in Dubai for a strategic advisory firm representing the city's leadership, and managing major international events such as the Race to Dubai and Dubai World Cup.

With a background in business strategy, operations and property management, she oversees Leo's structure, finances and day-to-day operations.

James Murchie

James Murchie

Construction Director

A results-oriented construction manager with over 10 years' experience across residential, commercial and industrial projects. Starting in groundworks, Jim has worked through every phase of the build, progressing into on-site management — though he still likes to get stuck in.

He pulls the subcontractors together and gets the very best from them, on time and effectively.

Nick Boswell

Nick Boswell

Development Director

Over 10 years developing real estate across residential, HMO and hotel sectors, with £140m+ GDV transacted across the UK, Europe, South Africa, India and the Caribbean. Previously Project Lead at Cohabs UK, Head of Project Development at Onzite (Zurich) and Senior PM EMEA at MAX Estates.

He runs the finance and operations side of Leo, as well as the technical product work at Petl Pay that drives efficiency across projects.

Co-investment

For the right scheme, we put our own money in.

Most clients pay us a fee. But where it makes sense, we'll co-invest — taking a profit-share or coming in as a JV development partner, aligned on the same exit you are. Fewer fees, more skin in the game.

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Send the address and what you're trying to do. We'll come back with a straight view on whether it works and what it would take to build.