During 2025 and 2026 Zenith Land acquired c. £325m of residential investment stock, predominantly off-market. Managing that stock to institutional standard led the firm to establish Zenith Land Asset Management.
Led by Sam Stokes and Phil Dale, the team takes assets from completion through onboarding, stabilisation and day-to-day management. We handle acquisition due diligence hand-over, rent collection, maintenance, lettings and tenant experience, and investor reporting — the operational work that protects and grows the value of each asset.
The team is built to run lean and stay close to each asset. The people who underwrote the deal remain accountable for its performance — from onboarding through stabilisation to steady-state management.
We take assets from completion into management — securing files, records and access, resolving hand-over gaps, and standing the asset up on our systems so nothing is lost between deal and management.
Day-to-day management of each asset — rent collection, maintenance, service charge, and the operational decisions that hold and grow value. Business plans executed by the people who underwrote them.
Fast, well-run lettings and a responsive tenant experience. We measure ourselves against the market — voids filled in days, not weeks, and maintenance issues resolved quickly.
Clear, consistent reporting to our capital partners. Investors receive a regular view of rent collection, arrears, works and letting performance across their assets — presented the same way every month.
Chartered Surveyor with over 14 years advising private and landed-estate clients. Sam trained at Workman before managing The Crown Estate’s Regent Street portfolio at JLL — 590,000 sq ft of Grade A office and prime retail at £52.5m rent p.a. As a Director at Savills he led commercial strategic asset management for five clients, including the Wellcome Trust portfolio (£1.5bn+ of assets, £63m rent roll, 200+ tenancies). He joined Regency as Managing Director in 2022, growing the team from 18 to 50 and revenue five-fold through to a private-equity sale.
sam@zenithland.ukChartered Surveyor (2012, via the Workman graduate scheme). Phil has held asset management roles at Workman, Motcomb Estates, Hudson Advisors and Romulus — managing half of the Reuben Brothers’ London portfolio and, at Hudson, disposing of 82 assets across the UK from £250k to £70m. In 2019 he founded Regency Real Estate, growing it from a one-man band to 50 staff managing 200+ properties for 20+ clients, through to a private-equity sale in December 2023.
phil@zenithland.ukZenith Land Asset Management works with private and institutional capital partners across the United Kingdom — block and portfolio management, repositioning, stabilisation and investor reporting.
