Wilton Property Partners advises established professionals on building a second income through rent-to-rent. We either teach you to run a portfolio, or we run it for you.
Every engagement begins with a conversation. There is no obligation on either side, and we will tell you if neither route suits you.
Several years into a professional career, most of our clients have money set aside and no settled view on what to do with it. It sits in an account, earns very little, and gets revisited every few months.
Buy-to-let is the familiar answer. It is also a slow one. A substantial deposit, stamp duty, months to completion, and a yield that rarely justifies the work at current rates.
Rent-to-rent is the less familiar answer. A property is taken on a company let, furnished to a standard and operated as short-stay accommodation. Capital at entry is lower and the route to income is shorter. It is also operationally demanding, which is either an interesting project or a job to be handed over, depending on how much of your week is already spoken for.
Which of those you are is the first thing we establish.
Structured video training and the Knowledge Vault, our library of operational documents, contracts, checklists and frameworks. Everything required to source, launch and run your own rent-to-rent portfolio.
For professionals who want the skill as well as the asset.
Wilton sources the units, sets them up and operates them on your behalf. You retain the portfolio and the income without the day-to-day operational work.
For professionals whose time is the binding constraint.
Fees depend on the route and the scale involved. They are set in a consultation rather than published on a webpage.
Three clients, none of whom gave up what they were already doing.
Ran an events company turning over £500,000 a month 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 produce roughly £12,000 a month, which sits underneath the business rather than replacing it. He still runs the company.
Found what looked like the right first property in Canary Wharf and was ready to sign. We went through the numbers with him and advised against it. The issues were not visible on the surface and would have eroded his margin for the length of the agreement.
"That pivotal moment saved me. Now I have a property that is actually making me money."
Built and now runs three units producing around £2,400 a month, 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 results above are individual to these clients and reflect their own circumstances, capital and effort. They are not a projection of what you should expect, and nothing here is a forecast or a guarantee. Property income carries risk and your capital is at risk.
Wilton is 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.
It is the same constraint most of our clients are working within, and it shaped how Wilton operates.
Four short resources for anyone assessing the mechanism on their own terms.
Model a unit before you commit to it. Rent, nightly rate and occupancy, and whether the numbers still hold at fifty per cent.
The sequence a first portfolio is built in, set out week by week.
One client's account in full, with the numbers and the decisions behind them.
Five questions on capital, time and objective. It will tell you whether either route is appropriate yet.
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 questions we are most often asked are answered here.