Orbit Homes

With plans to build 6,500 new homes by 2025, Orbit is one of the country’s major housing developers. We also have an exciting strategic partnership with Homes England to deliver, with a funding package of some £129 million. Yet, it is our approach that really sets us apart.

Our new “Your place to thrive” brand, positions Orbit Homes in the market as an aspirational, contemporary and responsible affordable housing developer. We're delivering a truly varied range of homes, from private sale and shared ownership to affordable and social rent properties across the Midlands, the East and South East.

We’re driving innovative initiatives such as low-carbon district heating, and we’re working to manage the entire development process from land acquisition to house building ourselves. What’s more, we’re driving large-scale regeneration projects, too, where we’re investing heavily to improve our existing portfolio in a sustainable way.

With a commercial approach that believes in creating profit to reinvest in more affordable homes, and rapid growth in this team, it’s an exciting place to be.

Sales and Marketing

At Orbit, we believe in working to make sure that more and more people have the chance to buy a high-quality, affordable home. To make this happen we provide the very widest range of options, including, Market Sale and Shared Ownership.

Our Sales and Marketing teams really connect with customers and take them carefully through every stage of the house buying process, building a relationship of trust and respect. We work to get an in-depth understanding of every customer’s needs, finding not only the right home for them, but the right type of tenure to help them get on, or move up, the property ladder. What’s more, we’re always developing our services to find new ways to make the home buying experience easy, stress-free, interactive and enjoyable.

There’s a very clear career progression route within our sales team. Formal training is provided in areas from selling skills, and brand awareness to house sale processes. What’s more, regular regional and whole team meetings mean you’ll always be involved, included and listened to.

With plans to build 6,500 new homes by 2025, there’s a lot of scope to grow in our Sales division, where you’ll be fairly rewarded with clear commission structures, and nurtured as part of a team that takes great pride in its work.

Land and New Build

At Orbit, we’re very proud of the fact we build our own houses – whether they are for sale or for rent. From the moment we achieve planning consent, our build operations and site management teams take complete ownership of development projects. They deliver award-winning homes that enhance thousands of people’s surroundings and create security for households across the Midlands and the East of England.

Our Site Managers and Project Managers oversee the installation of roads and essential utilities, whilst supervising the army of trade experts from bricklayers to plumbers who build our properties Health, Safety, Welfare and Wellbeing is paramount in all our work – as is the strongest commitment to delivering for our customers.

We want every Orbit home to be durable, sustainable and finished to the highest standards as well as delivering real value for the people that live in it and Orbit itself (with every penny of profit reinvested back in the communities we serve, there’s an extra incentive to deliver strong commercial results).

With a new funding package of £129 million from Homes England to develop 6,500 affordable homes by 2025, the scale of our plans make the Orbit a great place to drive change. What’s more, our belief in people isn’t just confined to our customers – we’ll listen to your opinions, have faith in your abilities and give you the environment you need to let your talents thrive.

Commercial & Technical

As an energetic, innovative developer we’re passionate about designing homes and communities that we can all be proud of. Our technical and commercial teams constantly strive to create award-winning designs that are highly marketable, buildable, durable, and cost efficient. Whether we’re designing a family home, or independent living complexes for those in retirement, we want to create spaces that meet the needs of the widest range of people in the communities we serve.

We’re involved at every stage, from site inception and design, through construction and beyond to the post completion analysis that allows us to continually improve our products and our service. With such a wide portfolio of property designs, specifications and development layouts, and ambitious plans to build 6,500 new homes by 2025, there is lots of scope to develop your ideas and your career at Orbit.

Join us, and you’ll use your technical expertise and innovative ideas to overcome challenges and create real value for the people living in our homes and for Orbit itself. We believe in people – and their future – so all of the profit we make is reinvested straight back into new projects and developments.

Commercial Property Services & PRS

At Orbit, we believe in people. So we have faith in our Commercial and Private Rental Sector team to bring in £24 million in annual profits; profits that we can reinvest straight back into creating affordable homes, and services that help communities thrive.

Leading the way within Orbit (and across the housing sector) we’re innovating in areas ranging from developing smart home technology for our rented properties, to delivering digital services for our private tenants. We’re also expanding rapidly, with plans to deliver 1,600 more market-leading rented homes in the next eight years so we can bring even more choice to our customers with a wider mix of tenure types.

It’s the ideal place for people who want to seek out new ideas and innovate, whilst also contributing to an organisation that’s putting its people and its customers in control of their own future.

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Emma Hobbs - Sales Manager
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