Rent collected, service charges reconciled, leases enforced, compliance kept current - all handled by one in-house team, not passed between separate providers.
Commercial property management is the day-to-day operational running of a let commercial property or portfolio - collecting rent, reconciling service charges, managing leases, arranging insurance and keeping the building compliant. It's sometimes called commercial real estate management, and it's a different discipline to asset management, which sits above it and deals with the strategic decisions - whether to buy, sell, refinance or reposition the asset. At Maritime Capital, both are handled in-house, by the same team, as part of a boutique property house built around wealth guardianship: you remain firmly in control, while the operational load sits with us.
Family offices, private landlords and entrepreneurs holding UK commercial property who want the administrative burden handled without losing oversight of the asset. It suits owners who've recently sold a business and don't want day-to-day property administration alongside their other commitments, as much as it suits a family office managing a let estate across multiple tenancies. We typically engage with portfolios from £50m upwards.
Getting the service charge right matters more than any other single line item in commercial property management – it's the part tenants scrutinise most closely, and the part that causes disputes when it's wrong. We reconcile service charges transparently, keep the accounting auditable, and separate variable running costs (energy, maintenance, security) from the core rent, which is also what makes a rent roll easier to finance. It's the same approach that helped unlock a £20m loan facility at Discovery Park in Kent, once all-inclusive rents were split into rent-only leases with their own service charge agreements.
Our commercial property management services include:
The two are often confused, but they're different jobs. A property manager handles the operational layer: rent collected on time, service charges reconciled accurately, leases enforced, the building kept compliant. An asset manager works at the strategic layer above it: deciding whether to buy, sell, refinance, reposition or redevelop, and how to grow the property's value over the time it's held.
Many owners end up with these two functions split across different providers, which is where things get missed – a lease event a property manager should have flagged to the asset manager, or a service charge inconsistency nobody with the full picture ever caught. Maritime Capital runs both in-house, under one team, which is also how we manage our own property asset management service.
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Our track record
Hands-on asset and property management that turns under-performing town-centre assets into profitable, well-let destinations.
With more than 35 years of experience and over £1.25 billion in UK commercial property transactions behind us, here's what that looks like in practice:
A quick overview of how commercial property management works with Maritime Capital - get in touch if you need more detail.
It covers the day-to-day operational running of a let commercial property: rent collection, service charge and insurance administration, lease management, arrears handling, facilities management and the underlying financial accounting, including VAT reconciliation.
Occupational lease management, rent and service charge collection, arrears and aged-debtor management, facilities management, building insurance, financial management and accounting, and marketing of vacant units - all delivered in-house rather than outsourced.
A property manager handles the operational administration of a let property - rent, service charges, leases and compliance. An asset manager works at the strategic level above it - deciding whether to buy, sell, refinance or reposition the asset, and how to grow its value over time. Maritime Capital provides both, in-house.
Fees are agreed individually for each engagement, based on the size and complexity of the portfolio rather than a flat percentage. As a boutique house working with portfolios from £50m upwards, we scope the fee to the actual scale of management required rather than applying a standard rate.
Yes. Financial management and accounting - including service charge reconciliation and VAT - sits within our commercial property management service.
Yes. Rent, service charge and insurance collection, along with arrears and aged-debtor management, are core parts of the service.
We typically engage with portfolios from £50m upwards, across UK commercial property.
Speak to our team
Get in touch to talk through hands-on commercial property management for your portfolio, or the strategic oversight of asset management alongside it.
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