The career is built. The capital is not yet working.
A one-hour online briefing for corporate professionals. The UK rental market as it stands, rent-to-rent as a route to a second income, and how a portfolio is built and run around the hours a career actually demands.
Reserve a place
Sunday at 7:00 PM UK time · Held online
Featured in
One hour. Three things.
Where the market stands, how rent-to-rent actually operates, and the two ways a professional can enter it. Questions are taken at the end.
The market
Where the UK rental market stands, what has changed for private landlords, and why a buy-to-let deposit now buys a slower result than it did five years ago.
The mechanism
Rent-to-rent in detail. How a unit is sourced, structured and operated, what it takes to run one properly, and the points at which it commonly goes wrong.
The two routes
Build and run the portfolio yourself with our training and the Knowledge Vault, or have Wilton source, set up and operate it on your behalf. Both are explained plainly.
Capital is rarely the problem. Deciding where to put it is.
You spent years building a career, and somewhere along the way capital accumulated. It sits in an account earning very little. Every few months you resolve to do something with it, and every few months the week gets in the way.
- Capital is set aside and is currently earning close to nothing.
- Buy-to-let is the obvious answer. Substantial deposit, stamp duty, months to completion, and a yield that rarely justifies the effort at today's rates.
- The hours a professional career demands leave no room for a second full-time occupation.
- Most property material is written for people trying to leave their job, not for people intending to keep it.
- Research has quietly replaced a decision, and another quarter has gone by.
Rent-to-rent is the less obvious answer, and the faster one.
Lower capital at entry than buy-to-let, considerably faster to income, and operationally intensive in a way that is either an interesting project or a job to be outsourced, depending on your circumstances. The briefing is about which of those you are, and what the numbers look like in practice.
Reserve a place →
Founded by someone under the same constraint as the room.
Wilton Property Partners was founded by 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.
That matters for one reason. The firm was not built by someone selling a way out of professional life. It was built by someone who stayed in it, and who had to make property work around the hours a professional career actually demands.
- Law graduate, University of Warwick
- Incoming solicitor at Clifford Chance
- Property portfolio worth over £4.7 million, built alongside studies and the start of a career
- Boutique corporate property advisory, not a course and not a coaching programme
What has been built, and around what.
Three clients, none of whom gave up what they were already doing.
Dylan
Ran an events company and was already invested in buy-to-lets. The capital was there. Consistent monthly cash flow was not, because the company paid him in bursts.
Eight units now sit underneath the business rather than replacing it. He still runs the company.
Ihab
Found what looked like the right first property in Canary Wharf and was ready to sign. We went through the numbers on a call and advised him against it. The issues were not visible on the surface and would have eroded his margin for the length of the contract.
"That pivotal moment saved me. Now I have a property that is actually working."
Andrew
Built and now runs three units while holding a position at an accountancy firm and completing a master's degree at the same time.
He was not short of intent. He was short of a process that fitted around a full week. That is most of the problem, most of the time.
The outcomes above are individual to these clients and reflect their own circumstances, capital and effort. They are not a projection of what you should expect. Property income carries risk and your capital is at risk.
Before you register.
The room is deliberately narrow.
We would rather tell you now than have you spend an hour in the wrong room.
You are established, and you intend to stay that way.
- 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 considered property and want a better-structured route than the obvious one.
- You want a second income and an asset alongside your career. You are not trying to leave it.
- You are risk-aware rather than speculative, and you value discretion.
There are people the hour will not serve.
- You are early in your career with little disposable capital. It 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 in the next twelve months.
Sunday at 7:00 PM UK time · Online · No charge
Reserve a place for Sunday.
One hour, online, with questions at the end. If this week does not suit, the briefing is held again the following Sunday.
Sunday at 7:00 PM UK time · Held online