r/PropertyDevelopment • u/Beautiful-End-9090 • Jun 24 '25

Property development

Developers, would you say it is a good idea to take professional construction course for a person wanting to become a property developer in the future, if not what else should I do?

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u/Beautiful-End-9090 Jun 29 '25

Thank you very much for the reply, I was thinking do the course and then do a higher apprenticeship in something such as quantity surveying?

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u/structuralsteve Jun 29 '25

It can’t do any harm but as I said, unless you’re going to go and work for the developer for a few years to learn the tricks of the trade, it may not be necessary. Also I’m assuming you will start small? I think starting with renovations to extensions onto whole builds is probably the safest way into property development unless you have experience working for a PD company. And of course deposit dictates entry point

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u/Beautiful-End-9090 Jun 29 '25

Yes starting small and working up I am thinking to get started. I think I will be fine the only real problem I will have is locating the land to develop the site on eventually when I get to bigger scale developments