Real Estate Advisor

Neil Sinclair is an expert real estate advisor serving the UK market, London and surrounding areas.

Track record across major transactions, capital markets, and economic cycles—including a £173m exit to Delancey and scaling Palace Capital to £259-280m. Real estate expertise spanning REITs, institutions, domestic portfolios, and international positioning. Neil provides board-level advisory grounded in operational reality.

Neil Sinclair FRICS - Real Estate Advisor

What Is a Real Estate Advisor?

A real estate advisor provides strategic guidance to property companies, REITs, and institutions on acquisitions, governance, portfolio strategy, and capital markets. Unlike transactional agents or brokers, real estate advisors operate at board level—shaping long-term strategy, not individual transactions.

Property advisory is particularly critical in the UK market, where property ownership structures are complex, regulatory frameworks evolve, and institutional relationships span generations. Advisors need fluency across listed vehicles, family offices, pension funds, and institutional landlords—each with distinct incentives and decision-making timelines.

Neil's approach reflects 60+ years of operational experience: building, scaling, and exiting listed property companies. This isn't advisory built on theory—it's judgment shaped by operating through 1973, 1990, 2008, Brexit, COVID, and the recent interest-rate whiplash.

What Does a Real Estate Advisor Do?

Strategic Real Estate Advisory

Portfolio composition, acquisition criteria, disposal strategy, geographic and sector allocation for institutional property portfolios.

REIT & Listed Vehicle Governance

Board structuring, governance frameworks, regulatory compliance, shareholder alignment, and operational best practices for listed property companies.

Distressed Property Opportunities

Opportunistic investment guidance for distressed and undervalued property assets, drawing on decades of experience navigating downturns and counter-cyclical positioning.

Capital Markets & Transaction Advisory

IPO strategy, reverse takeovers, strategic exits, M&A advisory, and capital raise strategy for property companies and REITs.

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Property cycles don't care about your strategy. They care about timing, capital structure, and whether you've seen this pattern before. After nine cycles, you stop reacting and start recognizing.
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When You Need a Real Estate Advisor

REITs & Listed Vehicles

Board-level advisory for property companies navigating strategy, governance, capital allocation, or shareholder alignment challenges. Operational judgment from someone who's built and exited listed platforms.

Family Offices

Advisory for family offices and long-term owners on UK property strategy, generational wealth preservation, and institutional-quality governance. Deep relationships with families who've held London property for generations.

Institutional Investors

Portfolio strategy and manager oversight for pension funds, insurers, and sovereign wealth allocating to UK commercial property. Experience across direct and indirect investment strategies.

Distressed Situations

Guidance on distressed property opportunities, workout situations, and counter-cyclical positioning. Currently Executive Chairman of Pristine Capital plc (distressed property focus).

Why Choose Neil Sinclair

Property advisory built on operational experience, not consultant theory. Neil has built, scaled, and exited multiple listed property companies—including a £173m exit to Delancey (Soros-backed) and growing Palace Capital to a £259-280m portfolio as CEO for 12 years.

Experience across nine major economic cycles: 1973 Oil Crisis, 1979-81 Recession, late-80s bubble and 1990 crash, ERM crisis (1992), dot-com bubble (2000), Global Financial Crisis (2008), Brexit shock (2016), COVID-19 commercial property dislocation (2020), and interest-rate whiplash with office-sector unwind (2022-24).

Deep institutional networks built over 50+ years, including relationships with family offices, pension funds, sovereign wealth, and long-term property owners across London and the UK. Institutional networks shaped across generations, not assembled for a pitch deck.

About Neil Sinclair

Real Estate Advisory for UK REITs, Institutions, and Family Offices

Board-level guidance built on 60+ years of operational experience across nine economic cycles.

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