About Us

NI Property Ladder Co-op is a not-for-profit planning consultancy and project management organisation largely aimed at delivering new homes as an affordable commodity for buyers and tenants alike in Northern Ireland, working with architects who are members of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

NI Property Ladder Co-op is modelled on co-operation, harnessing our know-how and experience with the goodwill of national and local government representatives, reputable builders, landowners, agents, investors, and FCA-regulated financial advisors, to bring the best quality affordable homes to as many parts of the province as is feasible.

Our CEO Mervyn Woods has a wealth of experience in the delivery of residential properties of all kinds across Northern Ireland and these include the following:

• Sole founder of the Self-Build Show sponsored by First Trust Bank, which was first launched at the King’s Hall Belfast in September 1992.
• Founder and editor of Northern Ireland’s first self-build magazine, which attracted contributors such as Professor Tom Woolley, former head of the Faculty of Architecture at Queen’s University of Belfast, Olga Makem, former lecturer of Interior Design at the University of Ulster, and the Chelsea Flower Show best garden design winner, Steven Carson.



• Mervyn Woods also won the DOE for Northern Ireland’s best rural Ulster cottage design award for "Spring Cottage" (see image below).



• Winner of the prestigious John Laing Construction Gold Award for his contribution to residential architecture and new concepts in project managements, an award presented to him by the then UK Cabinet Minister Lord Hunt (then Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster) in a ceremony hosted by Sir Christopher Laing at the John Laing Centre, Mill Hill, London in September 1994.



• Previously Managing Director and principal residential property designer in a firm of architects and construction managers operating at the luxury end of the residential property market across Northern Ireland, a small number of which projects are showcased below.
• Mervyn was also a director in a firm of consultants involved in the procurement of eighteen sites in Northern Ireland for a London-based property developer.