Built by someone who stayed in the profession.
Wilton Property Partners is a boutique corporate property advisory firm. We advise established professionals on building a second income through rent-to-rent, and we either teach them to run it or run it for them.
Terry Dwobeng.
A law graduate from the University of Warwick and an incoming solicitor at Clifford Chance, who built a property portfolio worth over £4.7 million alongside his studies and the start of his career.
The portfolio was built in the hours a professional career leaves behind. Early mornings, evenings, and the weekends between deadlines. There was no point at which he stepped out of the profession in order to do it.
That constraint shaped the firm. Most advisory in this sector is written for people with open diaries and nothing else to protect. Wilton is written for people who have neither.
The firm was not built by someone selling a way out of professional life. It was built by someone who stayed in it.Wilton Property Partners
What follows from that is fairly simple. The work is structured so it can be done around a full week, or handed over entirely. Nothing about the model assumes you have Tuesday afternoon free.
Three positions we do not move on.
Advice comes before engagement.
We establish whether either route is appropriate before we discuss working together. A meaningful proportion of conversations end with us saying no. When the fit is not there, that is the correct outcome and we will say so plainly.
Every deal is modelled to fail.
A unit is assessed on the assumption that it performs poorly. If the numbers do not hold at fifty per cent occupancy, the deal is not taken. Strong months are not allowed to subsidise a weak assumption made at the outset.
The agreement precedes the property.
Rent-to-rent is a contractual arrangement before it is a building. Every unit is taken on a company let with the landlord's knowledge and written consent. Nothing is furnished, listed or spent on until that is settled.
These are operating positions rather than marketing ones. They are the reason some enquiries do not become clients.
The firm is deliberately narrow.
We work with a specific person, and we are direct about who that is. It saves everybody a conversation that was never going to go anywhere.
We are likely a fit if
- You are several years into a career in finance, law, consulting, medicine, technology or a comparable profession.
- You have investable capital set aside, typically £20,000 to £30,000 or more, that is not currently working.
- You have already looked at property and want a better-structured route than the obvious one.
- You want a second income and an asset alongside the career. You are not trying to leave it.
- You are risk-aware rather than speculative, and you value discretion.
We are not a fit if
- You are early in your career with little disposable capital. The firm will not be useful to you yet.
- You are looking for something quick. Property is not that, and we will not pretend otherwise.
- You want a course to work through in your own time. We are an advisory firm, not a content library.
- You are researching the sector with no intention of acting within the next twelve months.
We would rather tell you now than take you through a process that was never going to suit you.
Arrange a conversation.
A consultation is a straightforward discussion of your position, the capital you have set aside, the time you can give it, and which of the two routes is appropriate. It takes about forty minutes.
If neither route suits you, we will say so on the call.
If you would rather read first, the sequence a first portfolio is built in is set out in the first ninety days.