Do you take a success fee?

No. Fees are fixed and agreed before the work starts, so the analysis does not depend on the transaction closing.

Do you replace corporate finance advisers?

No. They run the process and the corporate workstream; we provide the independent property reading underneath it.

Can you review a transaction already in exclusivity?

Yes, provided a decision remains — a price adjustment mechanism, an outstanding condition, or a right to withdraw.

Institutional Advisory

Real Estate M&A Advisory

Acquirer or seller of a property-owning company or portfolio needing an independent property reading.

Scope and fees agreed before instruction

Before offer, exchange or commitment

What your independent purchase review can cover

Send a property you have found, its asking price, rent evidence and proposed finance. We agree the questions, evidence, fee and written deliverables before starting. This is a second opinion on the purchase decision — not a listing service, building survey or legal clearance.

Evidence and missing information

Check price and rent assumptions against comparable evidence; record what is supplied, unverified or still needed from the seller, surveyor, solicitor or lender.

Downside and cash commitment

Separate gross rent from net income. Include voids, repairs, management, compliance, acquisition costs and finance sensitivity; identify the cash buffer needed if assumptions weaken.

A written decision brief

Set out the risks, assumptions, questions before commitment and conditions that could change the conclusion. Your agreed scope defines the analysis, exclusions and decision options.

Bring the questions that could change your offer

Single-let: does net income still work after voids, repairs and a refinance?
HMO: are room rents, licence conditions, planning position and compliance costs evidenced?
Commercial or mixed use: what do lease terms, tenant covenant, breaks, capex and vacancy imply?
Portfolio: does this acquisition increase lender, location or tenant concentration?
Overseas: are FX, source-of-funds, ownership and UK/home-country tax questions coordinated before commitment?

Scope first. Fee agreed. No promised return.

Fees depend on the asset, documents, complexity and depth of review. Request a written scope, fixed deliverables, exclusions and fee before instructing. Missing information can limit conclusions; a review cannot remove market risk or guarantee a successful purchase.

Solicitors handle legal diligence, surveyors assess condition, and appropriately qualified or authorised professionals provide tax and regulated financial or mortgage advice. We identify questions for those professionals, not replace them.

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By Real Estate Investment Advisor UKPublished 13 August 2026Last reviewed 13 August 2026Written for UK and international institutional capital

Key facts

In a corporate acquisition you buy the company's history as well as its buildings — including its tax position, contracts and liabilities.
A share purchase and an asset purchase produce materially different tax and liability outcomes, and the difference is usually priced badly.
Property-level value in a corporate deal is still decided by covenant, term, capital expenditure and reversion, whatever the corporate wrapper says.
Latent gains inside a target company are a price adjustment, not a footnote.
We take no success fee, so our reading of the portfolio does not depend on the transaction completing.
Mandate scope, suitability, fees and specialist responsibilities are confirmed before instruction. No minimum capital threshold is published.

Corporate real estate transactions are advised almost entirely by parties paid on completion. The property itself — the thing that actually generates the return — often gets the least independent scrutiny in the room. We review the real estate fundamentals behind a share purchase, portfolio acquisition or corporate disposal, on a fee that does not depend on the deal happening.

What does independent real estate M&A advisory cover?

The property case underneath the corporate transaction: the aggregate income quality, the concentration risk, the capital expenditure liability across the estate, the debt maturity profile, and what the assets are worth if they have to be sold individually rather than as a going concern.

Asset-by-asset income rebuild rather than a portfolio-level yield
Concentration mapping across tenant, sector, geography, expiry and debt maturity
Compliance capex aggregated across the estate with timing and funding
Break-up value versus going-concern value, tested against realistic buyer depth
Which warranties and indemnities the property findings should drive

Share purchase or asset purchase — how should that be decided?

By modelling both. A share purchase can transfer latent gains and historic liabilities; an asset purchase can trigger transaction taxes and disturb existing financing. The right answer depends on the target's history, your holding period and your tax position, and it should be settled before price rather than after.

We model the two routes side by side with your tax adviser so the price negotiation reflects the structure actually being used.

What is usually mispriced in a property-company acquisition?

Three things: the capital expenditure needed to keep buildings lettable and compliant, the refinancing cost at the next maturity, and the correlation between assets that look diversified on a map but share one tenant, one sector or one local economy.

Can you act on the sell side?

Yes, in the same way: an independent reading of what the portfolio will withstand under a buyer's diligence, and where the price case is weakest, before it is tested by someone with an incentive to find it. We do not run the process or take a completion fee.

Share purchase versus asset purchase — what changes

Share purchase versus asset purchase — what changes
Dimension	Share purchase	Asset purchase
What transfers	The company, with its history	The buildings only
Latent gains	Inherited by the buyer	Crystallised by the seller
Historic liabilities	Come with the company	Generally left behind
Existing financing	May survive, subject to consent	Usually repaid and replaced
Diligence burden	Corporate plus property	Property and title

Confirm the tax consequences of either route with a qualified UK tax adviser before pricing.

How the review works

1
Scope
Buy side or sell side, corporate or portfolio, and the decision date.
2
Estate rebuild
Income, capex and covenant modelled asset by asset from source documents.
3
Structure comparison
Share and asset routes modelled together with your tax adviser.
4
Stress
Break-up value, refinancing and correlated failure tested explicitly.
5
Written position
Price, structure and the conditions we would require before exchange.

Request a mandate review

Independent, fee-based and separate from any transaction. Tell us the decision and we will tell you what we would need to review it properly.

Frequently asked questions

Sources

Checked 13 August 2026. Tax and regulatory points on this page reflect published HMRC and GOV.UK guidance at the date shown. They are general information, not tax advice — confirm your position with a qualified UK tax adviser before committing capital.