Development Management and Real Estate Advisory

From strategic intention to delivered reality.

Principal-led advisory for complex development.

Development plans are conceived as economic transformations. They frequently proceed as concept design commissions. The gap between the two is where most development falls short. Altaprima works within it.

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Altaprima
DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANCY
Dubai · United Arab Emirates
01 · Principal-Led Advisory

A different kind of engagement.

That gap calls for a different kind of engagement, not a discipline or a process, but a point of principal stewardship that holds from brief through delivered asset and operational transition. Altaprima exists to provide it, carrying ambition through to the reality it set out to become.
Peter Amato BSc (Hons), MRICS, Founder and Principal

Principal profile

Peter Amato BSc (Hons), MRICS has spent three decades in development management and project delivery on masterplans, ultra-prime residential, mixed-use and landmark regeneration across the GCC, Europe, Asia and North America. Senior executive appointments at NEOM, The Crown Estate, Qatari Diar, Dalian Wanda and NYSE-listed Xinyuan Real Estate span the full development lifecycle, from greenfield inception, strategic visioning and investment structuring through planning, design governance, construction delivery and into operations.

Platform

Altaprima Development Consultancy - FZCO brings that experience directly to development principals and executives across the GCC. The platform is structured to work in collaboration with specialist teams and associate advisors around each mandate, while maintaining direct principal continuity throughout.

02 · Approach

Judgement across the lifecycle.

Development rarely unfolds in a straight line. Opportunities arise mid-stream, challenges emerge without warning, and the point where advisory input carries the most leverage is rarely the same from one mandate to the next. Altaprima deploys across the full development lifecycle, bringing the same principal-led judgement to a strategic question at inception, a delivery problem mid-construction, or a governance challenge at operational transition. That flexibility rests on command across the disciplines development actually requires, the ability to read a mandate from any point in its lifecycle and identify the opportunities to extend value from the baseline brief.

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Strategic Leadership and Development Management

The discipline of keeping intention honest, translating what a client has set out to achieve into a strategy that is deliverable without losing what made it worth pursuing.

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Integrated Masterplanning

Engagement with the connective layer between spatial strategy, design briefs, technical disciplines, digital systems, and the wellbeing and quality dimensions that determine whether places succeed.

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Development Delivery Framework and Oversight

The structure that keeps a complex scheme moving with commercial discipline intact, operated with judgement close enough to the ground to act while decisions still hold value.

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Financial and Commercial Management

Where the capital stack, delivery costs and returns are held in alignment across the life of a scheme, with oversight of live forecasting reported at board and investment committee level.

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Governance and Stakeholder Management

Holding a development on its intended direction under the influences of competing interests, with sustainability and ESG considerations reflected in the governance architecture from the outset.

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Deployed as the mandate requires.

Each discipline is engaged individually or in combination, and always within formal written terms of engagement.

03 · Scope of Services

The specific engagements Altaprima carries.

Altaprima’s engagement across the development lifecycle is organised around five disciplines. Each is deployed as the mandate requires, individually or in combination, and always within formal written terms of engagement.

Strategic Leadership and Development Management

  • Development strategy formulation and vision translation
  • Investment case advisory and business case structuring
  • Commercial strategy and phasing logic
  • Market positioning and product strategy
  • Development brief formation and refinement
  • Development partner and operator selection advisory
  • Strategic options appraisal
  • Board and investment committee advisory

Integrated Masterplanning

  • Masterplan review, challenge and integration
  • Design team selection and competition strategy
  • Strategic design coordination and governance
  • Design brief formation and management
  • Digital infrastructure strategy and integration
  • Cognitive and smart systems integration
  • Wellbeing, health and lifestyle quality design considerations
  • Multi-practice architectural coordination

Development Delivery Framework and Oversight

  • Procurement strategy and contract form advisory
  • Delivery team assembly and structure
  • Reporting and decision-making architecture
  • Principal-led development leadership
  • Independent development review and assurance
  • Project recovery and diagnostic engagements
  • Interface oversight across delivery parties
  • Operational readiness and transition to operations oversight

Financial and Commercial Management

  • Development appraisal support and review
  • Oversight of cost planning and cost control
  • Return profile and investment performance review
  • Capital stack alignment and review
  • Oversight of live forecasting and performance tracking
  • Commercial reporting to capital partners and lenders
  • Prospective change evaluation

Governance and Stakeholder Management

  • Governance architecture design and review
  • Board and investment committee reporting cadence
  • Sustainability and ESG governance integration
  • Joint venture structuring advisory
  • Public consultation strategy and oversight
  • Negotiation with statutory authorities
  • Multi-party alignment and stakeholder relationship management
04 · Selected Experience

Three decades of development leadership.

The schemes below are drawn from senior executive appointments across sovereign, institutional and private development in the GCC, Europe, Asia and North America. Each was undertaken in that capacity, before Altaprima’s formation.

NEOM, Trojena

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Development leadership

A development brief without regional precedent, a mountain destination in north-west Saudi Arabia conceived around a landscape of extraordinary topography and climate, with a residential and hospitality offer that had to be established alongside the destination itself. Development leadership shaped the phasing and asset balance across its residential, hospitality and destination assets, establishing the commercial and delivery framework that translated the sovereign vision into a structured investment proposition within the wider NEOM portfolio.

The Crown Estate, Central London Portfolio Masterplan

London, United Kingdom

Development and masterplanning leadership

At The Crown Estate, one of the United Kingdom’s foremost institutional landowners, development and masterplanning leadership extended across its Central London portfolio. The brief was to reassess long-term value, identify where growth lay beyond the existing footprint and align that with the capital and place making objectives the estate was established to serve. The work established a strategic framework for repositioning one of London’s most significant commercial estates.

Qatari Diar, Chelsea Barracks

London, United Kingdom

Development and stakeholder management leadership

Chelsea Barracks was one of Central London’s most scrutinised development opportunities, a major site in one of the capital’s most prominent neighbourhoods. Super prime design ambition, heritage sensitivity and sustained public consultation had to be held in balance. Development and stakeholder management leadership for Qatari Diar, having supported the scheme’s original Candy & Candy development phase, directed the design management process from concept through to planning, and consent was secured, supporting Qatari Diar’s position on one of London’s most closely observed sites.

Qatari Diar, Shell Centre

London, United Kingdom

Development leadership, multi-architect coordination

Multiple new buildings, several architectural practices, a joint venture partner and an incumbent global energy tenant each brought different objectives to a riverside site of major civic significance. Development leadership coordinated the design management process across every practice, aligning their outputs into a coherent strategy for planning submission with a shared vision for the site and its long-term potential.

Xinyuan Real Estate, 421 Kent Avenue

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Development leadership, international portfolio

Xinyuan Real Estate, the NYSE-listed Chinese residential developer, entered the US market with a Brooklyn waterfront site, bringing listed institutional investment to the neighbourhood’s regeneration. Development leadership aligned design, amenity and delivery sequencing with the specific expectations of the US residential market, and continued into asset management and business operations following completion. The scheme was completed and sold.

A representative selection. Full track record available on request.

05 · Altaprima

Ready to talk.

Complex development succeeds where the intention set at inception survives the conditions of delivery, and where the judgement that carries it through is present at every decision that matters. Altaprima brings that judgement to sovereign, institutional and private development mandates across the GCC, principal-led, informed by three decades on the client side of complex schemes, and structured to work alongside the specialist teams each mandate requires.

For principals seeking counsel at the level their scheme deserves, Altaprima is ready to talk.
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