About
A consultancy built the way we wanted to be advised.
RESI Consultancy is an independent advisory practice for the residential living sectors — student accommodation, build to rent, coliving, later living and single family housing. We work across investment, development, asset management, operations and technology.
Why it exists
The practice started with a gap its founder kept running into from the operating and investment side. The advisers who arrived with recommendations had rarely done the job. They had the frameworks, the benchmarks and the deck. What they did not have was the experience of a leasing cycle going wrong in February, or a mobilisation with six weeks left and no staff hired.
So RESI was built the other way round: operators first, advisers second. Every consultant on the bench has run the thing they now advise on, and most have at least eight years of operational experience with the top global PBSA, BTR and coliving operators, investors and asset managers.
How we work
Deliberately small at the centre, with a bench of named specialists rather than a pyramid of juniors. You get the person whose experience matches the problem, not whoever has capacity that month. Every engagement is overseen by Dan Smith — a constraint on how much work the practice takes on, and exactly the point of it.
Work is project-based or retained. Most engagements start as one piece of work and become a long-standing relationship.
What independence means here
- No introduction fees, commission or ongoing payments from any operator
- We do not bid to manage assets we have run tenders for
- We do not act for both sides of the same transaction or tender
- Any interest that could be perceived as a conflict is declared in writing before an engagement begins — including the founder’s interest in VerbaFlo.AI
- The first conversation is free and has no proposal attached to it
The full position is on the conflicts policy page. It is published rather than buried in an engagement letter, because a small practice advising institutional capital should expect the question.
Where we work
Fourteen countries, one bench.
We work with a bench of associate consultants and consultancies globally, which is how a practice this size covers this much ground. Where we do not have direct experience, we say so.
Clients
Trusted by the people who own, build and run residential real estate.
Institutional investors, national operators, universities and the technology businesses selling into them. In the UK, Europe, the US, Australia and India.
Free first conversation
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