BlackGate is a specialist management consultancy and development company for the real estate sector &  wider built environment. 

We sit at the intersection of three converging disciplines: 

1. deep real estate operating experience across six continents 
2. organisational psychology and executive coaching
3. rigorous management consulting methodology

No other firm in the market combines all three.

BlackGate is also a principal — a development company in its own right. We do not merely advise on how to develop, invest, and operate. We do it ourselves. That means every recommendation we make to a client is grounded in the reality of having our own capital, our own reputation and our own delivery obligations on the line. This is what separates us from every other consultancy in the market: we have skin in the game.

We are not estate agents. We are the consulting firm the real estate industry turns to when the business needs more than the business can give — whether that is strategic repositioning, interim leadership, capital raising, brokerage, operational audit, board restructure, or the kind of forensic diagnosis that only comes from people who have spent their careers inside this industry.

We work across every part of the built environment — from single-asset developments to multi-billion-dollar institutional portfolios:

REITs and listed property companies · Private development companies · Design and build contractors · Development managers · Architects and interior designers · Construction companies · M&E and specialist engineering firms · Quantity surveyors · PropTech companies · Agencies and advisory firms · Sovereign wealth funds · Family offices and HNWIs · Landlords and asset managers · Hospitality operators · Furniture, fit-out and FF&E companies · Specialist suppliers and subcontractors · Education providers and campus developers · Care and later living operators

Across residential, commercial, hospitality, education, healthcare, and alternative sectors. If it is built, managed, invested in or occupied — we understand it.