More than 700 new homes are to be built in Birmingham city centre with major plans for four new developments.
City firm Seven Capital is behind proposals which will add £150 million of housing to the city centre stock, with work set to start within months if approved.
More than 300 homes will be created at while across town three apartment blocks are set to be built - another off and close to The Cube.
Seven has become the most prolific investor in the city in the past year and the new deals take the firm half way to its pledge to build 5,000 homes in the West Midlands.
Managing director Phil Carlin said he was confident the market was there after selling hundreds of homes at its at Five Ways and The Landmark, near
He said: "There were 1,500 homes a year in the city centre being pumped out at the top of the market.
"If we can get planning sorted quickly and start to launch this summer, then if we sell 300 units we will be at barely a quarter of that. There is still a lot more capacity.
"We sold knocking on for 500 units by the end of last year at One Hagley Road, The Landmark and in Worcester.
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"We already have a lot of interest from investors in our other schemes. If we can get planning permission, there are 200 units people would buy almost straight away. We are very confident in the market."
The largest of the new schemes is the second phase of the £80 million St George's Urban Village, around the old Kettleworks, in the city's famous
Proposals include townhouses and apartments as well as a new road to connect better to the city core.
The next largest will be Landsdowne House, on a site next to One Hagley Road at Five Ways, in Edgbaston.
It will be a more high-end apartment block with a gym and concierge services. There will also be two city centre apartment blocks built on vacant land – Granville Lofts, on the corner of Granville Street and Holliday Street, and Ridley House near The Cube.
Mr Carlin said he hoped to start work on all four schemes by this summer and deliver all before autumn 2016.
It adds to a growing list of schemes by Seven. It is also and the Broadway building opposite, where another 600 units are under way.
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It has also bought Britannia House in Great Charles Street, and the
The Post reported in December the firm after spending a similar amount in 2014, and has boosted its coffers through a £60 million deal on a London hotel.
Mr Carlin said the company was not "hugely exposed" to the mortgage market, as it principally sells off-plan to investors.
However, the challenge will be building so many schemes in a short space of time amid a shortage of construction skills.
On the back of that, a sister company called to deliver the lion's share of the work.
Mr Carlin added: "2015 will be a year of building for us. Last year was a year of buying but with all of these schemes we want to get planning permission and start as soon as we can."
All four schemes are expected to go before Birmingham City Council's planning committee in a matter of months.