Plenty of Gulf family offices hold UK property, but few have commercial property specialists in-house. That’s the gap we fill. As a boutique property house we work with your existing team rather than replacing it, bringing due diligence, deal structuring and hands-on asset management to the UK side of the family’s wealth.
A property family office manages a family’s property wealth on its behalf, covering acquisitions, leases, tenants, finance, accounting and eventual sales. For a UAE-based family, it means one accountable team in London looking after UK holdings, with the family making the strategic decisions and us handling the detail.
Yes. Many of our clients already have trusted advisers, and we work with them rather than around them. We act as the UK property arm of a single family office, or across several families as a multi-family office, and we can introduce our own network of advisers where that’s useful.
Business owners who’ve sold up often want to stay active investors without taking on the administration of running buildings. We source and structure the acquisitions, then manage leases, rent collection, service charges and reporting, so you keep the investment decisions without the day-to-day burden.
Baleday is a good example of acting for an overseas structure. We bought a chain of adult gaming centres on behalf of a Gibraltar-based trust for £4.5m plus £3.3m of obligations, from administrators Baker Tilly. We cut the estate from 120 premises to 85, brought turnover to circa £22m with EBITDA of around £4m, and sold to Marwyn Group for £15.4m within 14 months.
At 16-17 Clerkenwell Close we invested £18m in July 2021 near Farringdon, ahead of the Elizabeth Line. A £2.5m capital contribution, restricted to improvements, secured a new 10-year lease at £57 psf, up from £38 psf, with a parent guarantee. The asset was valued at £24.5m, creating circa £4m of value.
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Our track record
Two deals that show how we buy, add value and sell for families and the structures they invest through.
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Talk to one of our Directors about your family office at max@maritimecapital.co.uk or +44 (0)20 3576 5097.
