Atlantis Group

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The Atlantis Group is a group of companies based in Reading, United Kingdom, which was formed in 2000, and is owned by John Sykes. The Group owns a large international real estate investment portfolio, and has a trading company which manages real estate assets on behalf of clients across the UK. Total assets under management within the Group stand at £305m.

Reading, Berkshire Place in England

Reading is a large, historic university and minster town in Berkshire, England, of which it is now the county town. It is in the Thames Valley at the confluence of the River Thames and River Kennet, and on both the Great Western Main Line railway and the M4 motorway. Reading is 70 miles (110 km) east of Bristol, 24 miles (39 km) south of Oxford, 40 miles (64 km) west of London, 14 miles (23 km) north of Basingstoke, 12 miles (19 km) south-west of Maidenhead and 15 miles (24 km) east of Newbury as the crow flies.

Real estate investing involves the purchase, ownership, management, rental and/or sale of real estate for profit. Improvement of realty property as part of a real estate investment strategy is generally considered to be a sub-specialty of real estate investing called real estate development. Real estate is an asset form with limited liquidity relative to other investments, it is also capital intensive and is highly cash flow dependent. If these factors are not well understood and managed by the investor, real estate becomes a risky investment.

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Corporate structure

The Group is 100% owned by its Chairman and Founder, John Sykes and trades via three private limited companies:

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Expansion & Change

The Group has expanded rapidly since trading commenced in 2000. Initially the Group had a number of trading businesses until 2015 when it sold its lettings business to the Romans Group for £5m. [2] Since this time, the company has focused its efforts on growing its trading business Atlantis Estates Ltd, as well as making significant advances in growing its real estate portfolio owned by Atlantis Holdings Ltd. [3] [4]


Atlantis Holdings Ltd

The investment business has a wide and varied portfolio across the UK from Teeside in the North down to the Isle of Wight in the South, but with the majority of assets owned in the South East. The current portfolio consists of:

Atlantis Estates Ltd

The trading business has well in excess of 100 different clients and manages over 4,500 units across the UK, although the majority of the portfolio is located in Central London, the East Anglia, and the South East.

The company is regulated by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) [5] and full corporate members of the Association of Residential Managing Agents (ARMA) [6] .

Sponsorships

The company sponsors and pays all administrative expenses of the John Sykes Foundation, [7] a charity centred on helping to transform lives in Reading, the Group and John Sykes' hometown. Registered charity number 1156623.

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