Who we serve · Family offices
For family offices: private, discreet real estate counsel
Most long-held family property portfolios contain assets nobody has reassessed in decades — a tenanted building earning almost nothing, a plot held for a development that never happened, a commercial unit in a location that has moved on. Collectively they are often the majority of the value and the minority of the return.
For family offices, in brief
The Genesis provides discreet real estate advisory to single-family offices and families: a complete review of legacy holdings, representation on acquisitions and disposals, long-horizon land positioning, an independent valuation basis for family settlements, and ongoing oversight of deadlines on leases, tenancies and redevelopment. We do not name, publish or market private client work in any form.
What you arrive with
The problems we usually hear first.
Legacy assets tolerated rather than managed
Tenanted buildings, idle plots and decayed commercial units — each individually ignored, collectively carrying real risk.
No single picture of what the family holds
Holdings spread across entities, generations and documentation of varying quality, with income and liabilities nobody has consolidated.
Settlements stalled on valuation
Family members hold different views of what each asset is worth, and there is no common basis to negotiate from.
Deadlines discovered too late
Lease expiries, redevelopment offers and regulatory deadlines that should have been acted on months earlier.
What we do about it
Four moves, in order.
Portfolio review, representation, settlement valuation and oversight — with absolute discretion.
- 01
Establish the estate
Every holding: what it is, on what terms, earning what, worth what, with what problems — consolidated into one view.
- 02
Agree the objectives
Income, liquidity, consolidation, succession — often different for different branches of the family.
- 03
Act selectively
Dispose, redevelop, re-lease or hold, sequenced with the family's tax advisers and with family agreement.
- 04
Oversee continuously
Periodic reporting so deterioration and deadlines are caught before they become expensive.
Commitments
What you can hold us to.
- No private client case studies — named or anonymised
- One party only in any matter where family interests diverge
- Coordination with the family's CA and counsel rather than substitution for them
- A consistent, disclosed valuation methodology across the estate
Relevant capabilities
Where to go next.
Private Client Advisory
Discreet representation for families and family offices — acquisition, disposal, portfolio review and settlement support.
C01Investment Advisory
Independent underwriting of real estate opportunities — entry price, exit liquidity, structure and what could go wrong.
A05Land Advisory
Site identification, aggregation, title and entitlement assessment, valuation and monetisation — on both the buy and sell side.
C03Acquisition Advisory
Buy-side representation: targets, diligence, valuation, negotiation and a walk-away price agreed before the room.
A04Redevelopment Strategy
Independent advisory on redevelopment — entitlement, corpus, developer selection and consent — for societies and for developers.
G05Property Consultancy
A defined engagement on a single property question — including the short ones that do not need a full mandate.
Questions
Frequently asked.
How do you protect family confidentiality?
We do not publish private client work in any form, including anonymised case studies, because in a market this small anonymised is often identifiable. Engagement terms include confidentiality obligations, and information is handled on a need-to-know basis within the firm.
Can you help resolve a family property dispute?
We can provide an independent, evidenced valuation basis that all parties can see, which often moves discussions from competing assertions to common numbers. We act for one party, or jointly only where all parties appoint us together — never for two sides with divergent interests.
Other clients we serve
- DevelopersOne accountable partner for velocity and realisation, from positioning to registration.
- LandownersResidual valuation, route selection and negotiation for owners of land and legacy sites.
- Investors & fundsIndependent underwriting, exit liquidity analysis and filtered opportunity flow.
- Channel partnersOne rate card, written ownership rules, live inventory and payouts on a published cycle.
- Housing societiesIndependent advice for committees: feasibility, benchmarking, selection, security and agreement review.
- NRI buyersIndependent briefing, remote verification, and a transaction mapped before money moves.
- Corporate occupiersTenant-side representation, modelled on total occupancy cost and flexibility.
Family offices
Start with a complete picture of what the family holds.
A confidential portfolio review is usually the most useful first step — and it frequently surfaces deadlines nobody knew were approaching.