StrategicManagers
Finch+Finch is an independent real estate strategy consultancy. We work inside the processes managers already run, adding capacity where it is needed: the models, the business plans and the papers that go to a board or an Investment Committee, prepared to your conventions and delivered under your name.
Managing real estate is a role measured in decisions, but the work that defines those decisions is where the unseen value lies. The model that reconciles. A solution that has been tested. An Investment Committee deck that tells the story to everyone not in the room. That work is substantial, and it rarely arrives automatically or on schedule.
Teams are sized to run the portfolio, not for the weeks when several demands land at once. The answer is capacity that arrives with the peak, costs nothing when it passes, and fits in without friction. We work within the conventions you already have: the model structure, the reporting pack, the assumptions the team has agreed. What we produce is continuous with everything around it, and belongs to the people whose names are on it.
When a recommendation goes to an Investment Committee or a board, our years in governance are at their most useful. We help shape the narrative, so that the case is clear, the evidence is in view and the obvious questions are answered before they are asked. We refine the processes, so that meetings end in outcomes rather than further questions: board time spent deciding rather than deferring, and managers free to get on with delivery instead of writing another report.
We work with investment, development and asset managers to enhance your existing functions. We bring the idea you haven’t thought of, the independent approach that validates your strategy, and the means to articulate it to your investors. Delivered through your process and to the timetable you define. And, where it is useful, we stand as the independent view that is visibly independent.
We work alongside existing teams rather than around them, taking on defined, purposeful roles or holding a workstream for as long as it runs.
Framed and priced before it begins, and finished in weeks rather than months.
Asset, portfolio and fund-level models to institutional standard, built in your conventions or in ours. Legacy models inherited, audited and made to reconcile, with the assumptions surfaced rather than buried in a tab nobody opens.
The plan written, reviewed or tested against the variables that determine whether it survives. The downside modelled deliberately, as a scenario, not just a sensitivity.
The case set out for decision-makers: the recommendation, the evidence and the answers to the questions it will attract. Written for whoever has to approve it, and to hold up when it is challenged.
Occupier modelling, operator agreements and amenity-led business plans built and tested alongside the investment case, for assets whose returns now depend on how well they are run.
A considered second view before a decision. Challenging a recommendation, reviewing the underwriting, or contextualising the valuation. Independent of the team that authored it. To test a position before it goes out, or to give decision-makers an independent reference point when they ask for one.
Reporting frameworks built to work for the author who populates them and the audience that receives them. The story told plainly, and with the evidence visible without overwhelming the arguments presented. A repeatable, manageable process that encourages strong governance and can respond effectively to the questions that it triggers.
Hold-versus-sell analysis across assets or portfolios. Capital structure reviews and debt extension or restructuring proposals. The analysis necessary to understand the underlying economics and the means to present to investors.
Acquisition and disposal analysis, debt procurement, and defined pieces of work taken on at short notice. Framed, priced and finished.
Our network of specialists brings the necessary skills, led by a finance and real estate generalist with a genuine track record in the detail.
We have capabilities that are applicable across the market landscape, underpinned by sector-specific knowledge and experience.
Who we are
Founder, Finch+Finch
Most recently Chief Investment Officer at CIT Group, a London-based private equity real estate operator, Tom was responsible for deploying private and institutional capital in value-add investment across all sectors.
He founded Finch+Finch to provide the workstream that is too commonly missing: an honest appraisal of what an asset should do next, considered in the widest possible terms and grounded in evidence. With an industry-wide network, financial and analytical expertise and deep experience in hands-on real estate practice, he has both the judgement to ask the right questions and the means to find the best answer.
Everything starts with a conversation, free and with no obligation.
We want to hear your questions. Our answers are never predetermined; we will tell you what we think, and what we would need to find out to be certain. Email us at ku.oc.hcnifdnahcnif@olleh
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