Full-cycle development: one company answers for the plot, the build and the years after
SAVO works the full cycle itself. It takes the land plot, writes the concept, designs, builds, sells, commissions the buildings, and then runs and develops the territory. Nothing on that list is passed to a general contractor who passes it on again. On the market since 2006, the group has done this in Spain, Lithuania and Ukraine.
The consequence shows up in the figures. 320 000 m² built, 52 000 m² in the active construction stage, 3 920 apartments that have found their owners — all of it on one company, rather than spread over a chain of project vehicles that each delivered a fragment and closed. When a finished building needs someone to answer for it, the organisation that signed the first drawing is still in place.
Who it is for
- Buyers who want to know who answers for a defect three years after the keys change hands.
- Partners weighing a joint project and reading delivery history rather than a presentation.
- Landowners choosing between a developer who will build their plot and one who will resell it.
- Anyone comparing developers who outsource construction with developers who keep it in-house.
What it covers
Land plot and concept
The cycle starts with the plot, and the plot decides the concept: storeys, how much ground stays open, which classes of housing, which non-residential uses the place will need. A site that cannot hold a courtyard worth living in does not become a project. This is also where it is settled whether the result is one building or a whole district.
Design in-house
Architecture and engineering are produced inside the group, which is why the three markets deliberately look different. Clinker-brick mid-rise in Vilnius, blocks around closed courtyards in the Kyiv region, a sea-facing tower on the Costa Blanca presented in the project visualisations. One engineering standard, three answers to three places.
Construction
The group builds rather than supervises someone else building. 52 000 m² are in the active construction stage, sequenced so a completed courtyard can be opened while the next block rises. Because the designer and the builder are the same company, a change on site is a decision rather than a claim.
Sales and commissioning
Apartments are sold by the owner of the building; 3 920 of them have found their owners across the three countries. Commissioning covers the common areas and the courtyard as well as the apartments, since a handover with an unfinished yard is not a handover. The buyer's counterpart at the notary is the same one from the first viewing.
The territory afterwards
After commissioning the group stays. It maintains lawns, lighting, playgrounds and paths, operates the commercial, medical and sports premises, and designs the next phase against how the district is actually used — Evromisto 2 is in design for that reason. Behind the record stands 320 000 m² of built space.
How a SAVO district comes about
Acquisition and feasibility
Before a plot is taken, the group tests what it will carry: planning limits, soil, access, utilities, the surrounding market. The question is not whether a building fits but whether a liveable district fits. A plot that only works as a tower between two roads is declined.
Concept, design and permits
The concept fixes the housing classes, the shape of the courtyards and the non-residential mix; the design turns that into drawings and the approvals that go with them. Because the same company will build from those drawings, they are made to be built from, not re-drawn by whoever wins a tender.
Build and sell in parallel
Construction and sales run alongside each other with one company on both sides. A buyer who commits at an early stage deals with the owner of the building all the way through, and the order of phases is stated rather than improvised. Payments, documents and the notary follow the law of the country the building stands in.
Commission, operate, extend
Buildings are commissioned with their common areas and courtyards complete, and the territory then passes into the group's own management. Operating it writes the brief for the next phase: what residents use, what they avoid, what is missing. The cycle restarts on the same site instead of on a new one.
One owner from the plot onwards
Whatever stage you arrive at, the counterpart is the same organisation. A buyer studying a layout, a buyer signing before a notary, a resident reporting a defect and a business taking a ground-floor unit are all dealing with the company whose name is on the project. There is no point in the process where responsibility quietly moves to someone you have never met.
Documents are signed under the law of the country where the building stands, with the formalities that belong to it: a notary, a register entry, and the papers a foreign buyer has to obtain. The group does not promise returns and does not quote yields. What goes in writing is what is being built, to what standard, and where it sits in the sequence of phases. The European legal entity is UAB Savo investicija, Gerosios Vilties g. 27-131, Vilnius.
After commissioning less changes than it usually does. The courtyards, the service companies and the commercial premises stay with the group, so maintenance and the next phase are planned by the people who delivered the first one. That is the whole case for the full cycle: the figures above rest on one company, and so does the obligation behind them.
Terms on this subject
Escritura pública and registration
The notarial deed is the day a purchase becomes real; the entry in the Registro de la Propiedad is what makes the ownership hard to attack. They are two separate steps.
Handover and defects liability
Handover is an appointment with a document at the end of it. What is written into that document, and what is reported afterwards, decides how the first years in a new home go.
Lithuanian Real Property Register
The Lithuanian Centre of Registers records every flat, plot and parking space, its owners and the charges against it. An extract is the document a buyer reads first.
The Development Cycle
Development is a chain of decisions, and most of the ones residents feel daily are taken long before the first wall. Here is what each stage settles.
Questions about SAVO and its projects
What does full-cycle development include here?
The land plot, the concept, the design, the construction, the sales, the commissioning, and then running and developing the territory. Each of those sits inside the group rather than being tendered out. The last item is the one most developers leave off the list.
Why does it matter who built the building?
Because responsibility follows ownership. When design, construction and operation belong to separate companies, a defect turns into a dispute between them and the buyer waits. Here the designer, the builder and the operator are one organisation, which is also why the built volumes are reported as one figure.
How much has the group built, and how much is on site now?
320 000 m² are built and 3 920 apartments have found their owners. A further 52 000 m² are in the active construction stage. The figures cover Spain, Lithuania and Ukraine together, and the group has been on the market since 2006.
Does SAVO use outside companies at all?
The group's own structure covers the concept, the drawings, the site, the sales and the companies that run the district afterwards — that is what full cycle means in practice. Where outside work is bought in, it is managed by the group and does not shift responsibility for the result. Your counterpart stays the same at every stage.
What happens to a district once the last block is finished?
It stays with the group. Lawns, lighting, playgrounds and paths are maintained, the commercial, medical and sports premises keep operating, and a further phase is designed where the site allows one, as with Evromisto 2. A completed district is treated as something to run, not a project to close.
Tell us which market your question is about
Two or three sentences are enough: the country, whether it concerns an apartment, commercial premises or a partnership, and how to reach you. The answer comes from the person who handles that market rather than from a sales desk.