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Specialist M&A Advisory for Property & Real Estate Investment Owners
Sell Your Property Portfolio or Real Estate Investment Business
UK and US M&A specialists for heritage developments, residential portfolios, mixed-use assets, and real estate investment vehicles. We connect high-value property owners with institutional buyers, PE real estate funds, and family offices.
Your disposal's success depends on having options. We provide them. With over 13,000 buyers registered directly on our platform, including institutional residential funds, PE real estate funds, family offices, and REITs, plus our advisor network and access to institutional-grade data tools, we ensure your assets are presented to the most relevant, qualified acquirers in the market.
Why Property & Real Estate Owners Choose
The resources of a top-tier investment bank, purpose-built for property investment disposals.
We do not wait for buyers. We maintain a live relationship graph of 200+ pre-qualified property acquirers including institutional residential funds (Grainger, Long Harbour, Packaged Living), PE real estate funds (Octopus, PGIM, Tristan Capital), and UHNW family offices actively seeking stabilised and value-add assets.
Our AI Deal Concierge (Sage) is trained on hundreds of real estate transactions. It cross-references buyer mandates, yield requirements, geographic preferences, and ESG criteria to build precision-targeted shortlists that human brokers cannot replicate at speed.
Years of Combined RE Advisory
You get a dedicated M&A Advisor who understands property investment structures, SPV disposals, portfolio unbundling, yield compression, and the nuances of selling heritage, residential, and mixed-use assets to institutional capital.
From single-site developments to multi-asset portfolios.
Fully tenanted residential blocks and apartment portfolios generating proven rental income with institutional-grade occupancy.
Listed buildings, heritage restorations, and character properties with ESG and sustainability credentials that command premium buyer interest.
Clean SPV structures enabling tax-efficient share sales for institutional and PE buyers seeking streamlined acquisitions.
Large-scale investors acquiring stabilised residential blocks. Manage thousands of homes. Seek turnkey assets with proven yields and ESG credentials.
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Negotiation & Heads of Terms
Manage competitive tension between multiple interested parties. Negotiate optimal price, terms, and structure.
Coordinate all legal, financial, and structural workstreams through to exchange and completion.
Every conversation is strictly confidential. We will give you an honest assessment of your portfolio's market positioning and the buyer appetite we are currently seeing.
No obligation. Your details are never shared without written consent.
What types of property portfolios does DealFlowAgent advise on?
We advise on the disposal of stabilised residential portfolios, heritage and restoration projects, mixed-use developments, build-to-rent (BTR) assets, purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA), and real estate SPV structures. Our clients range from individual property investors with a single development to portfolio holders with multiple assets across the UK.
How is selling a property portfolio different from selling a traditional business?
Property disposals involve unique considerations including SPV share sale versus asset sale structuring, SDLT implications, tenant management during the sales process, yield analysis, and the need to present assets in a format that institutional buyers and PE funds expect. Unlike a straightforward business sale, the buyer universe is highly segmented by asset class, geography, and yield profile. A specialist adviser ensures you are targeting the right category of acquirer for your specific portfolio.
What is an SPV share sale and why does it matter?
A Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) share sale allows a buyer to acquire the company that owns the property, rather than the property itself. This structure can be significantly more tax-efficient for both parties, as it may reduce or eliminate Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) on the transaction. Institutional and PE buyers often prefer this structure, and having clean SPV documentation is a material advantage in negotiations.
How long does a property portfolio disposal typically take?
A well-prepared disposal typically takes between three and six months from initial engagement to completion. The principal stages are: asset preparation and information memorandum production, targeted buyer outreach, offer management and heads of terms negotiation, due diligence, and legal completion. Portfolios with clean title, organised tenancy schedules, and transparent financials move significantly faster through due diligence.
What fees does DealFlowAgent charge for property disposals?
We operate on a success-fee basis, meaning our fee is payable only upon completion of a transaction. There are no upfront retainer fees. This structure aligns our interests directly with yours: we only succeed when you achieve a successful disposal at a price and on terms that you are satisfied with.
Do you work with overseas buyers?
Yes. Our buyer network includes international institutional investors, sovereign wealth funds, and overseas family offices with active mandates to acquire UK real estate. International capital has been a significant driver of UK property transactions, particularly in the build-to-rent and stabilised residential sectors.
How do you maintain confidentiality during the disposal process?
Confidentiality is fundamental to every engagement. We use anonymised teasers for initial buyer outreach, require signed non-disclosure agreements before sharing any identifying information, and manage all buyer communications through our team. Your tenants, staff, and the market will not know you are exploring a disposal unless you choose to disclose it.
8 buyers got in touch with the help of their tech. We ended up completing the sale in 32 days to a serial acquirer.
I could not have asked for better support. They found the perfect buyer and secured terms that exceeded my expectations.
The team guided me through every step. I felt completely supported from first call to completion. I then referred my friend Jennifer, who also sold her company with them.
How we outperform M&A advisory firms
handles research, monitoring and risk.
You already get cold approaches every week. Most are a single buyer fishing for a low price, with no intention of paying a competitive multiple. We run a structured, confidential process that turns scattered approaches into
3 to 5 simultaneous offers you can compare
, led end-to-end by a senior advisor on your deal — not a junior handler.
Competitive process across 80+ qualified buyers in your sector creates real tension on price and terms.
You choose the right buyer, not the only option.
Better deal structures mean more in your pocket on day one.
The right buyer looks after your team, your clients, and everything you built.
Here's how we deliver these results for business owners.
Handles research and analysis behind the scenes, monitored by your advisory team
Sage handles the heavy lifting: research, document preparation, buyer monitoring, risk analysis. So your advisors can focus on strategy and negotiation.
Data-driven insights for your advisors
Every insight leads to a specific action, giving your team a clear plan to maximise your outcome.
Your dedicated team leads the process end-to-end.
Your team leads. Technology supports.
Sage and Sterling handle research and monitoring so your advisors focus on strategy and negotiation.
Deeply understands every buyer's criteria, budget, and deal preferences
What Sterling knows about every buyer
Every buyer is profiled through a detailed onboarding conversation, capturing the nuance that doesn't exist on the internet.
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From First Call to Successful Exit
A structured, five-step sell-side process designed to maximise valuation and keep you in control.
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Close & Protect the Legacy
A senior M&A bench, plus a sector specialist recruited for your industry on every deal.
For every engagement we add a sector specialist from your industry to the core team: a 15–25 year operator or advisor with direct relationships in your niche. Recruited per deal so you get the right fit, not a generalist.
"I built and sold my own company after scaling it to 80,000+ users and raising over £2M in funding. The exit process was painful, expensive, and completely opaque. I knew other business owners deserved better."
So I set out to modernise the way businesses are sold. We have now advised on 22 sales, built a network of over 12,500 registered acquirers, and we are the only AI-enabled M&A firm with this proprietary technology and data. We are highly specialised in building services, facilities management, and healthcare, and that is all we do.
Before DealFlowAgent, I spent years in the trenches of high-growth startups, learning what it takes to build, scale, and ultimately sell a business. That firsthand experience — the sleepless nights, the difficult conversations, the elation of getting it done — means I understand what our clients are going through on a level that most advisors simply cannot.
There is nothing better than a founder calling to say they have paid off their mortgage, sorted their children's school fees, or are ringing from a three-week holiday in the Maldives. That is why we do this.
On a personal note: 30 years old, grew up in Surrey, Crystal Palace supporter (sorry), and proud owner of Willow, an English Spaniel who is far more popular than I am. I also make a very good lasagne, if that helps.
Our backers are the same investors behind companies like Uber, SpaceX, Canva and Notion.
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Here's how we deliver these results
Six factors that outperform a generalist broker. Each one delivers a measurable result — see the right-hand column.
Compounded, these six factors translate into the outcomes below.
Four years of direct conversation with sector acquirers — interviews, deal calls, sector dinners — layered with structured weekly buyer interviews via Sterling. Roughly twenty columns of intelligence per buyer: search criteria, valuation thresholds, deal structure, the management team they want to inherit, and the green, amber and red flags that move them.
We work in two verticals. Every advisor, every buyer profile, every comparable sits inside that focus. Specialists win against generalists at the table.
Funded to invest in marketing, events and full-page presence in Fire Safety Matters, Professional Security Magazine and International Fire Buyer. When a buyer receives our outreach about your company, they already know us.
Sage and Sterling give us live visibility on every buyer — open rates, replies, intent signals — across multi-channel outreach. Each pitch is personalised to the buyer's strategic priorities.
Optional, separate from the +27% above. The Diagnostic, Second Brain and AI Employees can lift EBITDA 0.5x to 2x in three to six months by unlocking growth, lifting margin and removing key-person dependency. That raises the multiple buyers will pay before we even take you to market.
The final 5 to 10 percent of the headline number is decided in the last two weeks. Our advisors have led the negotiation seat on twenty-plus closed deals. Anchoring, deal structure, earnout design and walk-away credibility are not improvised.
Joined full-time on 22 August 2026 from the largest M&A advisory firm in the UK, owned by K3 Capital. As an ex-Director he managed teams of M&A advisors, analysts and associates, working daily with business owners, buyers and stakeholders on live acquisition deals. Selected from 260 applicants alongside colleagues from investment banking backgrounds, he brings that experience and network to lead the advisory bench across Building Services, Facilities Management, and Healthcare.
Senior Building Services & FM Advisor
Martin is one of the most well-connected figures in UK fire, security, building services and FM. He is Chairman of both the Fire Industry Association and the British Security Industry Association, the only person in the UK to hold both roles simultaneously. Martin spent over a decade in senior leadership at Mitie, latterly as Industry Liaison Director for its fire and security division, helping scale the business past £500m in revenue and playing a role in the £366m acquisition of Marlowe plc, which created one of the UK's largest compliance, fire and security services groups. He joined DealFlowAgent because owners in these sectors deserve a genuine sector-specialist advisor across valuation, business optimisation and buyer access. In recognition of his industry roles, he acts in a personal, non-partisan capacity.
Industry Partner, Hiring and Leadership
Nick leads FM Talent Partners, the facilities management and real estate leadership search firm, and is a leading specialist in building services and FM management talent. He partners with DealFlowAgent on two-way referrals: helping business owners and acquirers fill the key roles that decide whether a business is sellable, and introducing owners who are thinking about their next chapter to a team that knows their industry and their market. Key-person dependency is one of the two most common reasons a sale collapses, and Nick fixes it at source.