Ringley is an integrated tech enabled business: our tech never replaces people, it simply removes the processing so we can enrich their roles, pay them more and ensure they have time to care for our Customers. Over the years we have moved from being a proactive organization to one that runs predictive management systems. We are not afraid to engage with the wider community whether that be local Councillors, the police or MPs: using www.writetothem.com is a great tool!
If you google “complain Ringley” you will find our sub-site called “www.makeringleybetter.co.uk” Sometimes things will go wrong, but our focus is to “get it fixed” and I think the way we handle issues says a lot about us – we even have a money back guarantee. We are acutely customer focused which makes us a safe choice for the likes of Charities such as The Wellcome Trust and other institutions.
Our History:
1997
Launched Investment Valuation team
In the beginning Investment valuation
2004
Supporting disabled employees
Won national & regional Remploy awards for working with people with disabilities
2004
Block Management surges ahead
Block Management service extends to key Freeholders and RTM blocks
2010
Ringley Law - one of the UK's 1st MDPs
One of the 1st property/solicitors MDPs to launch 2010 under new SRA rules
2011
Building Surveying takes off
Launched Ringley Building Engineering
2011
Launched Apprenticeships
Our founders passion for helping people into work saw her appointed as a National Ambassador for NAS
2011
Won World Skills Training award
Winner of a National Training Award
2011
BTR PropTech launch
Launch of 1st living sectors end-to-end vertically integrated tech platform
2018
BTR office opened in Manchester
Acquired Manchester lettings operation to fuel northern BTR growth
2019
Built new HQ in Camden Town
Completed development of new 12,500 HQ premises in Camden Town
2020
Work by Ringley launched
Eric appointed to head our flagship 190 desk Camden Gateway coworking/start up suites and provide advisory to the institutions.
2021
Mixed Use Service Charge
Kate Robinson joins to lead in master site planning & setting out service charge schemes
2021
Camden Gateway opens
Equity partner Eris Asare joins to grow 'Work by Ringley' beyond our Camden Gateway centre & advise BTR developers
2022
Equity partners joined Valuation
Valuation experts Nichola and Chris strengthen our lending valuation team
2022
VirginLand by Ringley
Digital entrepreneurs Dan and Charlie disrupt land sourcing
2023
Living Sectors Investment Advisory
Oliver Hopkins joins Asset Management in Capital Markets to place investment in the living sectors
2023
Ringley Law - Wales
Julian Ings, Escheat Law expert, co-author of the Renting Homes (Wales) Act guide joins as lead for Wales
2023
Welsh Asset Management
Asset Manager formerly of Crown Estate Richard Read OBE joins as equity partner and heads Wales & West region
2024
Group CEO appointed
Richard Williams joins as equity partner to develop commercial asset management & strategic partnerships
2024
Una Living Advisory launched
Russel joins as Strategic Lead of Living Strategy & Operations from Quintain Living
2024
Strategic Adviser
Proptech & Strategic Partnerships
Launched Investment Valuation team
In the beginning Investment valuation
Supporting disabled employees
Won national & regional Remploy awards for working with people with disabilities
Block Management surges ahead
Block Management service extends to key Freeholders and RTM blocks
Ringley Law - one of the UK's 1st MDPs
One of the 1st property/solicitors MDPs to launch 2010 under new SRA rules
Building Surveying takes off
Launched Ringley Building Engineering
Launched Apprenticeships
Our founders passion for helping people into work saw her appointed as a National Ambassador for NAS
Won World Skills Training award
Winner of a National Training Award
BTR PropTech Launch
Launch of 1st living sectors end-to-end vertically integrated tech platform
BTR office opened in Manchester
Acquired Manchester lettings operation to fuel northern BTR growth
Built new HQ in Camden Town
Completed development of new 12,500 HQ premises in Camden Town
Opened our 1st Coworking centre
Launched Work by Ringley coworking & serviced apartments brand and opened flagship Camden Gateway centre
Equity partners joined Valuation
Valuation experts Nichola and Chris strengthen our lending valuation team
VirginLand by Ringley
Digital entrepreneurs Dan and Charlie disrupt land sourcing
Strategic Adviser
Proptech & Strategic Partnerships
Welsh Asset Management
Asset Manager formerly of Crown Estate Richard Read OBE joins as equity partner and heads Wales & West region
Ringley Law - Wales
Julian Ings, Escheat Law expert, co-author of the Renting Homes (Wales) Act guide joins as lead for Wales
Group CEO appointed
Richard Williams joins as equity partner to develop commercial asset management & strategic partnerships
Una Living Advisory launched
Russell appointed as the Strategic Lead of Living Strategy & Operations, formerly Operations Director at Quintain Living and Hilton Hotels
The Ringley Group was established in 1997 and is a one-stop-property-shop. We are: Asset Managers, Solicitors, Valuers, Engineers, Accountants, Block Managers, Lettings & Property Managers and more....
Our Vision:
Good Advice, Great Service by Brilliant People... Every Time
Our Mission:
To lead the market, generate recommendations, be known for giving friendly, clear, sound advice and delivering creative property management solutions
Our Values:
Building Relationships
Provide answers that matter. Make a difference. Be accountable. Say what can be done and do what we can.
Add Value
No job is too big. As one Ringley, none of us above any job at all. If it can be done, do it promptly, effectively and with a smile.
Take the Initiative
Listen, step up, reach out and check in. Continually improve ourselves and our service delivery. Engage Suppliers that follow our standards.
The Ringley Group comprises asset management, operational leasing and property management as well as acquisition and advisory services. We are a group of companies with equity invested leadership in each.
We have received a number of awards including a World Skills National Training Award, Employer of the Year of all Camden & Islington Businesses and awards for our ESG 'environmental social and governance' policies as well as our CSR 'corporate social responsibility'. Ringley’s success would be impossible without our passionately committed team. We expect 5 star service so first we focus on looking after our people.
We have offices in London, Manchester and Cardiff. Find out more about companies in the group below.
Our logo is a hybrid of the RICS lion and the homa bird which is a legendary bird in Persian mythology: the homa bird is said to spend its entire life flying invisibly high above the earth, never alighting on the ground, it has the body of a lion, the mane of a horse, the eye of an eagle and the ear of a deer, a combination that represents courage, strength, vision and listening. It is these characteristics that govern our vision – to provide clear, sound advice with absolute integrity, valuing different perspectives and listening to our customers to build lasting relationships.
Richard is Group CEO of The Ringley Group; he is an ex MD of Property Management and Board member at both CBRE & Avison Young. Richard is market facing, responsible for strategic partnerships and growth, as well as establishing Ringley's position in the commercial asset and property management arena. Richard's experience spans over 30 years across all UK real estate asset classes, including mixed use development, commercial, surveying, and valuation.
Martin Samworth (previous Chairman of CBRE Advisory and current Chair of RICS Board) joins as a Non-Exec Director/Strategic Adviser to support the group’s growth in the living sectors which comprises its tech platform, asset management, operational oversight and property management parts of the business. Together, these offer a unique vertically integrated, end-to-end solution that can support in-house operators and those who outsource and crave a single tech-stack rather than an array of disconnected apps.
Martin Samworth
Strategic Adviser
Mary-Anne Bowring as Group MD has taken Ringley from a start-up to employing over 200 people and achieving the prestigious Investors in People GOLD Standard. Under her leadership, The Ringley Group has harnessed technology to add value to all living sectors: build-to-rent and institutional block management, e.g., the Wellcome Trust. She set up Work by Ringley, c200 workspaces in Camden Town, and invested in digital disrupters 'Virgin Land' whose digital platform sources land for developers large and small.
Russell Markou joins as Head of Living Strategy & Operations to drive our BTR platform, Una Living and Una Consult. He brings experience of construction site engineering, hotel operations, and 8 years as the Operations lead with Quintain Living growing their stock from concept stage to 3,500+ operational BTR apartments. Russell’s adds value throughout the entire life cycle, from design concept, contractor relations, mobilisation, staffing structures, training, procedures, lease up and retention strategies...
Nick Pratt is MD of Ringley Integrated Site Staff Solutions (RISSS) whose motto is simple: Stand up | Smile | Service | Security RISS provides site staff throughout the UK both to mixed-use, leasehold and build to rent buildngs. Our teams fulfil the roles of housekeeping, caretaking, on-site facilities managers, concierge, security and grounds maintenance. We recruit, train and invest in our people and use cutting edge tech to deliver accountability, deliver efficiencies and improve net operating income for Clients.
Chris Curtis is Operations Director of Ringley Integrated Site Staff Solutions (RISSS) and runs the 'services' side of the business which includes: carpet cleaning, gutter cleaning, window cleaning and mobile cleaners that are cross trained to insource tests for emergency lighting, fire alarms, and AOVs to save reduce CO2 from travel miles and save Clients money along with App based inspection reports to provide vital audit trail to keep Clients safe.
Chris Curtis
Operations Director of RISSS
Survey by Ringley: Our valuation arm assists UK Property Owners to grow their investment portfolios’. Put simply, our Valuation Surveyors provide honest property advice to support acquisitions, pension planning, bank lending, tax planning, and leasehold enfranchisement.
VirginLand by Ringley are the developer’s outsourced land department and generate off-market deals that match Clients specific requirements with sector/regional exclusivity. We bring forward development opportunities using digital mapping and overlay multiple data sources to achieve a response rate of circa 18% and work across multiple sectors: e.g., residential, EV, PV roll-out, nursing homes and truck stops. Our team comprises: land finders, planners, and tech experts.
Kate Robinson heads Estate & Block Management - London. Kate approach is compassion and empathy, which underpins our approach to block management 'Home by Ringley: ‘managing yours as our own’, whether that be mixed-use estates, leasehold blocks, housing developments, or live-work communities. Our aim being to ensure people enjoy where they live and that we maintain property values for owners.
Richard joined from the Crown Estate after a successful RAF career. Richard manages some of Ringley’s largest masterplan sites and is well known in Cardiff Bay for tackling cladding and other developer issues. Richard brings a no-nonsense military approach to managing complex sites, making light work of improvement projects and capital works and taking the time to meet residents and incorporate their feedback to build common purpose. He is responsible for the operational delivery and growth of our West region.
Richard Read
Heads Wales & West region
We are a niche property law firm that specializes in all things property. From recovering service charges and ground rent arrears, fixing defective leases or extending them to helping leaseholders gain more control of their block, we provide tailored solutions on a range of property law topics. Our motto is simple - straightforward advice to best serve our clients.
Building Engineering by Ringley: ‘We cover major projects throughout the UK from London, Cardiff and Manchester offices’. Our Chartered Surveyors and Engineers help a range of Clients in planning today for tomorrow, this can mean diagnosing problems, considering repair vs renewal and materials selection to deliver value in use.
Sarah Steel is a qualified accountant and acts as FD to support the MDs of each Ringley Group entity. She has been pivotal in furthering both the PlanetRent vertically integrated living sectors platform that tracks over 100 KPIs and provides robotic accounting and automates lettings for the living sectors. Sarah also provides oversight of client accounting procedures, internal audit, and service charge management.
Denton King, a real estate investment and finance expert formerly of Round Hill Capital and Colliers joins to support the groups integrated investor developer operator ambition through site acquisition, capital raise, planning, and development. Denton brings experience in Build-to-Rent and Build-to-Sell projects throughout the United Kingdom, Canada, and Europe.
Life by Ringley: “specialists in connecting people with newly built properties” We are at the forefront of the Build to Rent industry supporting institutional landlords to deliver fresh modern homes at scale for rent. These homes embrace the best of place making with the aim to create vibrant communities so for us in Lettings and Asset Management, it is about, your home, your way.
We are a niche property law firm that specializes in all things property. From recovering service charges and ground rent arrears, fixing defective leases or extending them to helping leaseholders gain more control of their block, we provide tailored solutions on a range of property law topics. Our motto is simple - straightforward advice to best serve our clients.
Work by Ringley: “a tightly knit community of entrepreneurs and starts ups who grow together”. We are provide a variety of work spaces for small to big businesses, creatives and likeminded entrepreneurs to further their growth and productivity.
Home by Ringley: ‘managing yours as our own’. Whether we are managing a mixed-use estates, a leasehold blocks of flats or a live-work community in property management, we help people enjoy where they live. That means for us it is all about looking after each home as if it was our own.
Finance by Ringley: ‘Experts in all things service charge including service charge management audits’. Our Accountants seek to understand the value of money which means from a Clients perspective, hence the strapline ‘accounting for your money’. They are specialists in service charge and company accounting matters.
Survey by Ringley: ‘We assist Property Owners throughout the UK acquire, gear up and grow their investment portfolios’. Put simply our Valuation Surveyors provide honest property advice to support acquisitions, pension planning, bank lending, tax planning and leasehold enfranchisement.
Building Engineering by Ringley: ‘We cover major projects throughout the UK from London, Cardiff and Manchester offices’. Our Chartered Surveyors and Engineers help a range of Clients in planning today for tomorrow, this can mean diagnosing problems, considering repair vs renewal and materials selection to deliver value in use.
ServiceChargeSorted by Ringley: ‘We assist residential block owners in administering their properties, eliminating the need for Managing Agents and reducing their annual costs. We collect the service charge, pay any invoices, arrange the buildings insurance at lower rates and prepare the annual accounts. All of this for a fixed annual fee’.
Meet our People
We work hard to build trusting and professional relationships with our clients, and to find solutions that consistently meet their needs in an increasingly complex property world. Discover more about the expertise of some of our team.
