Private Advisory Sessions
Book a Consultation with Neil Sinclair FRICS
Sixty or ninety minutes with someone who has operated through nine economic cycles, built and exited listed property companies, and sits on both sides of the table PropTech founders are trying to reach. You set the agenda. You leave with a view you can act on.
Who Books a Consultation
Not only property companies. The common thread is a decision where real estate, capital, or adoption is the deciding factor — and where being wrong is expensive.
REITs & Listed Property
Boards, chairs, and management teams weighing a structure, a raise, a disposal, or a shareholder problem.
PropTech Founders & Investors
Pre-seed to Series B, and the funds backing them. Landlord adoption, pilot design, pricing, and whether the thesis survives contact with real owners.
Institutions & Family Offices
Allocators and long-term owners testing an acquisition, a manager, a sector call, or a distressed opportunity.
Boards & Non-Executives
Governance, board composition, and the questions a chair needs answered before the next meeting rather than after it.
Advisers & Professionals
Lawyers, corporate financiers, agents, and consultants who need independent real estate judgement behind their own advice.
Owners, Developers & Occupiers
Private owners, developers, and corporates with a site, a lease, a portfolio, or a covenant decision in front of them.
What a Consultation Delivers
You set the agenda — that part is not negotiable, because you know your situation better than anyone. What Neil brings is what six decades of operating gives you access to. In practice, a session does one or more of four things.
Pressure-test the decision
Put the live decision on the table — the acquisition, the structure, the raise, the exit, the hire, the pivot. Neil has watched the same decision play out across nine cycles: the 1973 oil crisis, the 1990 crash, the ERM crisis, dot-com, 2008, Brexit, COVID, and the rate whiplash of 2022–24. Pattern recognition of that depth cannot be modelled, and it is the fastest way to find the flaw in a plan that everyone around the table already likes.
Accelerate what is already moving
Most delay is not caused by the hard problem; it is caused by approaching the right people in the wrong order, pricing a pilot in a way procurement cannot approve, or building a case in a language asset managers do not use. Removing the wrong turns is often worth more than the advice itself — and it is the difference between a nine-month sales cycle and an eighteen-month one.
Open the right doors
Where there is genuine fit, Neil makes introductions — to landlords, REITs, institutions, family offices, boards, and operators built up over sixty years in the UK market. These are relationships, not a contact list, which is precisely why they are offered selectively and never as volume. A warm introduction from someone whose name carries weight is a different instrument to a cold approach.
Put a value on it
What the asset, the platform, the structure, or the strategy is actually worth to the party on the other side — and what they will pay attention to. Value is created in real estate by understanding the incentives of long-term owners, institutions, and families. That is the lens applied to whatever you bring.
What you will not get: a sales pitch, a proposal document, or a follow-up sequence. A consultation is a self-contained piece of work. If it leads to a longer relationship, it will be because it earned one.
Experience isn't the years — it's the cycles survived.
How It Works
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Choose a time
Pick a 60- or 90-minute slot in the calendar below. Sessions are held by video call, with in-person meetings in London available where the subject warrants it.
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Set the agenda
Describe the decision or opportunity when you book, and send anything material ahead — a deck, a model, heads of terms. Neil reads it before you speak.
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Get a straight answer
The session is spent on your question, not on background. Where introductions or follow-on work make sense, they are agreed at the end — not assumed.
Fees
Consultations are chargeable. The fee reflects the scope and length of the session and is confirmed in writing before the booking is confirmed — no open-ended retainer, no hourly meter running after the call.
If your question is better answered by someone else, or in two lines of email, Neil will tell you that instead of taking the fee.
Choose a Time
Select a slot below and tell Neil what you want to cover. If the calendar does not load, open the booking page directly.
Who You Are Booking
Neil Sinclair FRICS has spent over sixty years in UK real estate. He floated Sinclair Goldsmith on the London Stock Exchange, sold Milner Estates for £173m to Delancey, co-founded Mission Capital plc, and built Palace Capital plc into a £259–280m portfolio. He is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, and remains active in PropTech as Chairman of Unloc.
That combination — listed company operator, institutional network, and current PropTech board seat — is why the consultation works across sectors rather than only within property.
Consultation FAQs
How do I book a consultation with Neil Sinclair FRICS?
Choose a time directly in the booking calendar on this page. Sessions are available in 60-minute and 90-minute formats. You select the slot, describe the agenda you want to cover, and send any context or materials ahead of the session. Neil reviews them before you speak, so the time is spent on your question rather than on background.
Do you have to be a property company to book a consultation?
No. Consultations are taken by REITs and listed property vehicles, but equally by PropTech founders and their investors, venture and private equity investors, family offices, boards and non-executive directors, lawyers and corporate financiers, corporate occupiers, developers, landlords, and private owners. The common thread is a decision where real estate, capital, or adoption is the deciding factor — not a particular industry.
What can I expect from a consultation?
You set the agenda and get a direct answer to it. In practice a consultation does one or more of four things: it pressure-tests a decision against nine cycles of pattern recognition; it accelerates something already in motion by removing the wrong turns; it opens doors through introductions to landlords, institutions, boards, and family offices where there is genuine fit; and it puts a value on the deal, the structure, or the strategy in front of you. You leave with a view you can act on, not a proposal.
Is the consultation paid, and what does it cost?
Consultations are chargeable. The fee depends on the scope and length of the session — 60 or 90 minutes — and is confirmed in writing before the booking is confirmed — there are no surprises and no open-ended retainer. If your question is better answered by someone else, or by a short email, Neil will say so rather than take the fee.
How is a consultation different from a general enquiry?
A general enquiry through the contact page is an introduction that may lead to a longer advisory relationship. A consultation is a scheduled, prepared, chargeable session with a defined agenda and a defined outcome. Many clients use a consultation as the fastest way to get one decision resolved; some use it as the starting point for board advisory or a longer engagement.
Can a consultation lead to ongoing advisory or a board role?
Frequently. A single consultation often surfaces whether a longer relationship makes sense — board advisory, a non-executive role, PropTech go-to-market work, or ongoing counsel to a management team. There is no obligation in either direction; the consultation stands on its own value.
Are consultations held remotely or in person?
Most consultations are held by video call, which suits clients in the UK and internationally. In-person meetings in London can be arranged where the subject warrants it — mention it when you book.
What should I send before the consultation?
A short note on your organisation and role, the decision or opportunity in front of you, your timeline, and anything already committed. If you are a PropTech founder, include your current stage and landlord traction. Attach a deck, model, or heads of terms if they are central. Preparation is what turns a conversation into a decision.
One decision, properly tested.
Bring the question you cannot get a straight answer to anywhere else.