About Real Harbour Capital

Our Vision

Real Harbour has a mission to become a market leading investment management, asset management and development management platform for our capital partners. Focused on the retail and logistics sectors as well as opportunistic add-value real estate.

Delivering attractive risk adjusted income and capital returns, unlocked through data driven considered stock selection, intensive hands-on asset management, strong occupier relationships and risk controlled development. A trusted partner for any economic cycle. A modern, dynamic business where our team and our capital partners alike feel valued and share in our success.

We believe intensive hands-on asset management combined with market insight into evolving consumer behaviour drives value from real estate for both our capital partners and our occupiers, helping them navigate the consumers of tomorrow.

Our Platform

Real Harbour Capital has three pillars:

1. Investment Management
2. Asset Management
3. Real Estate Advisory

Founded in 2025 by Stuart Mitchell, Real Harbour Capital is a trusted partner with deep experience and expertise in UK commercial real estate. With a highly respected and regarded advisory board supporting the business, providing experience in retail, development, private equity and local authorities.

Our focus is on performance. Using data, market intelligence and a deep network of contacts to identify attractive risk adjusted investment opportunities, through active asset management, close relationships with our occupiers and risk controlled development. Delivering sustainable rental income for our occupiers,  an enhanced built environment for our consumers while driving income returns and capital values for our capital partners.

Who Are We?

Stuart Mitchell

Founder & Director

Education

BSc Land Management

University of Reading 

Reading Real Estate Foundation

Enterprise & Entrepreneurial Award

Member

Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors

MBA Essentials

London School of Economics

Stuart founded Real Harbour Capital in May 2025 having specialised in the retail and logistics sectors for over 20 years. He started his career at logistics specialist Fuller Peiser before being acquired by BNP Paribas Real Estate where he went on to specialise in agency and capital markets.

In 2010 Stuart joined shopping centre, retail park and town centre regeneration specialist NewRiver REIT plc shortly after their IPO where he went onto become a member of the Executive Committee, Head of Third-Party Asset Management and responsible for the NewRiver REIT plc Southern Portfolio.

In 2023 he joined sporting institution The Jockey Club, and their Executive Committee as Managing Director of Group Property responsible for overseeing the real estate strategy to drive income and capital receipts from non-core land to reinvest back into the core horseracing business. With a focus on residential, industrial open storage, renewables, hotels and leisure uses together with operational cost saving initiatives across their 10,000 acre portfolio including 15 racecourses.

Specialising in the investment, asset management and development management he has transacted over £1.5bn over the past 20 years.

Stuart is a member of the RICS, former member of the Revo Asset Management Committee, British Retail Consortium Insolvency Committee and a member of Accessible Retail.

Outside work Stuart is a golfer, skier, tennis player and countryman with a fond affection for Uist in the Outer Hebrides with his closest friends, many in property. However, most weekends with his wife are taken up taxiing their three young children to their busy social lives and sporting pursuits around Kent!

E: stuart.mitchell@realharbour.com

T: 07825 016362

Gary McNamara

Co-Founder & Director

Education

BEng Electronic & Mechanical Engineering

The University of Reading

MSc International Real Estate

Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors

Investment Property Forum

Worshipful Company of Chartered Surveyors

Securities Certificate - Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (The CISI)

Gary is a Co-Founder of Real Harbour Capital, with over 20 years’ experience across direct real estate, operating platforms, capital markets, structured real estate products and proptech.

Most recently, Gary was Investment Director at The Ardent Companies, owners of Touchwood Shopping Centre in Solihull  and The Royal Exchange in London. There he led investment strategy, deal origination, underwriting, transaction execution and capital raising. He developed annual investment strategies and capital partnership propositions, working with institutional investors across Europe and the US. While at Ardent, Gary launched a self-storage operating platform, The Place, building the operating team, securing seed assets, and establishing a strong acquisition and development pipeline. His transactional experience spans retail, industrial, self-storage, offices, leisure, residential and mixed-use assets.

Previously, Gary was Land and Strategic Partnership Director at Inspired Villages, part of Legal & General’s later-living platform. He led the land team and created a strategic partnership programme to secure a long-term development pipeline through public and private sector collaboration, including initiating and executing a £500 million equity joint venture with NatWest Pension Fund.

Earlier in his career, Gary founded two proptech businesses, raising SEIS and EIS capital to develop platforms focused on real estate risk management and fund liquidity, transacting over £1 billion of real estate financial products. He also held senior roles at DTZ in the capital markets team, advising on more than £500 million of direct asset transactions.

Gary trained as a Chartered Surveyor with an MSc in International Real Estate and is recognised for combining technical investment expertise with a strong global institutional network. Outside work, he is a keen endurance athlete and an active father to two young children.

E: gary.mcnamara@realharbour.com

T: 07711 608678

Advisory Board

Real Harbour Capital benefits from a highly respected, regarded and diverse skill set providing sound advice, guidance and expertise.

Katherine Russell

Director of Build-to-rent at John Lewis Partnership and former Head of Property, John Lewis Partnership

Justin Thomas

Property Director, The Jockey Club and Former Director of Development, NewRiver REIT

Catherine Sherrin​

Data Program Lead, Revantage Europe, a Blackstone Portfolio Company

Caroline Hicks

Director for Growth & Community at Dartford Borough Council and Former Head of Property & Regeneration, Canterbury City Council

Sustainability & Community

We care. For our children, our grandchildren, future generations and all those in the present. 

Any built environment has the opportunity to lean into sustainability and is in our mindset. From choices made in construction and materials, to installing EV chargers, solar and energy saving opportunities, to the simple choices we have in engaging with our people, communities and stakeholders.

Environmental, Social & Governance is something we do and can provide everyday. Be it delivering environmental targets in GRESB, BREEAM certification or Net-Zero targets. Bringing communities together providing a social landscape for all to thrive, or simply providing governance for the properties we own and manage. We do it. With passion, pride and an eye on the future.